Main description:

The goal of Endovascular Skills: Guidewire and Catheter Skills for Endovascular Surgery has always been to provide a "step-by-step" approach to techniques and procedures that comprise one of the most exciting and rapidly developing specialties in medicine today: minimally invasive management of vascular disease. Endovascular technique has gone from being a novelty to a mainstay of vascular care and this edition of Endovascular Skills has been revised and expanded to reflect these changes. This book serves as a "how-to" guide for endovascular intervention and aims to assist clinicians in the development and refinement of skills that are now essential to vascular practice.

The book introduces readers to strategy, vascular access, guidewire-catheter handling, and arteriography in a multitude of vascular beds. The knowledge base builds as the text progresses in much the same manner that the skill of the professional builds as experience is gained by performing more complex cases and managing complicated patterns of disease. The chapters progress to all aspects of endovascular therapy, including sheath access, balloon angioplasty, stents, and other treatment modalities.

Contents:

PART I: CATHETER AND GUIDEWIRE SKILLS. Case preparation. Safe and strategic vascular access. Sheath access. Guidewire skills. Small platform guidewires and monorail systems. Handling catheters. Guidewire and catheter passage. Imaging: the key to success. Selective catheterization. Principles of arteriography. Arteriography of the vascular beds. PART II: ENDOVASCULAR THERAPY. Endovascular workshop. Medications for endovascular therapy. Access for endovascular therapy. Setting up the therapeutic maneuver: crossing lesions. Crossing challenging lesions. Balloon angioplasty: minimally invasive autologous revascularization. More about balloon angioplasty: keeping out of trouble. Stents, covered stents, stent-grafts. Other devices and how to use them. PART III: THERAPY IN SPECIFIC VASCULAR BEDS. Brachiocephalic interventions. Visceral and renal artery interventions. The infrarenal aorta, aortic bifurcation, and iliac arteries interventions: Advice about balloon angioplasty and stent placement. The infrainguinal arteries: advice about balloon angioplasty and stent placement. Complex lower extremity revascularization. Salvage of previous reconstructions. Hybrid procedures. Technical aspects of treating aortic aneurysms. Coiling of peripheral aneurysms. Puncture site management. Selected reading. Appendix: Trade/registered/generic names plus current manufacturers