This exclusive one day course offers a unique opportunity to practice open vascular surgical techniques, which are becoming significantly less common due to the rise of endovascular techniques and are essential for open surgical solutions. 

Program

• Discussing surgical anatomy

• Discussing surgical techniques (step by step)

• Discussing indications, common errors, complications, and their solutions

• Hands-on cadaver training I: open exploration of brachial, axillary and femoral arteries 

• Hands-on cadaver training II: infrarenal aorta and iliac artery exploration: median laparotomy followed by retroperitoneal exploration 

• Test, feedback

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Semmelweis University, Heart and Vascular Centre

The vascular surgery department is considered a leading aortic center at the national level, where thoracoabdominal aneurysms and most aortic dissections are treated. The clinic performs complex open, endovascular, and hybrid reconstructions with a high level of professional expertise in operating rooms equipped with C-arms. The multidisciplinary Vascular Team ensures the most appropriate therapeutic decisions through the collaboration of vascular surgeons, interventional radiologists, and angiologists. In addition, the clinic also operates a malformation outpatient clinic specializing in the treatment of rare vascular malformations.

Semmelweis University – Scientific Innovation Center in the Heart of Europe

Semmelweis University is the oldest medical university in Hungary with over 250 years of experience in the field of biomedical sciences and in training physicians, dentists and pharmacists. As the largest health care service provider in Hungary, the University’s hospitals and clinics are places of practical education, but they also operate according to the highest level of progressivity. Beyond teaching and learning, the University’s impact extends to research, with discovery and innovation at its heart, responding to the world’s greatest challenges in the field of medicine and health sciences.