Core Skills: Vascular Surgery Workshop

About

The Core Skills: Vascular Surgery Workshop provides Vascular and General Surgical Trainees and suitably credentialled rural surgical practitioners the opportunity to learn new skills in a range of vascular surgery procedures. It is a full-day hands on cadaveric workshop with a focus on surgical dissection, which commences with vascular anastomosis on animal tissue before progression to cadaveric vascular exposures.

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Suitable for

Vascular and General Surgery SET Trainees GSET Trainees at Level 1 and above Suitably credentialled rural surgical practitioners Unaccredited Registrars with strong surgical experience (limited places) Observers and Assistant Theatre Nurses

Dates

6 March 2026

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Overview

The workshop aims to enhance participants' knowledge and technical skills in emergency surgery. It provides a rare opportunity to gain anatomical knowledge in open vascular surgical procedures. It utilises a combination of pre-reading, discussion and dissection.

Workshop Content

Anatomy relating to:

the neck
the abdomen
the femoral triangle

Prior to each procedure there will be an anatomy short session and a brief discussion of specific objectives to be reached.

The following procedures will be demonstrated and performed:

Exposure of the common carotid artery and its bifurcation +/- patch closure
Approaches to the infra-renal aorta and its branches
Aortic grafting
Vascular exposure in the femoral triangle proceeding to high saphenous ligation and profundaplasty
Benchtop anastomotic techniques using porcine aorta
Below knee amputation (subject to availability of cadaveric material)