Endovascular Skills Guidewire and Catheter Skills for Endovascular Surgery 4E

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.

Table of Contents

Part I: Basic Endovascular Skills
Endovascular Concepts
Case Preparation and Room Setup
Getting In: Percutaneous Vascular Access
Basic Sheath Access
Guidewire–Catheter Skills
Small Platform Guidewires and Monorail Systems
Guidewire and Catheter Passage
Imaging: The Key to Future Success
Selective Catheterization
Arteriography
Setting Up the Therapeutic Maneuver: Crossing Lesions
Part II: Endovascular Therapy
Strategy for Endovascular Therapy
Endovascular Workshop
Access for Endovascular Therapy
Medications for Endovascular Therapy
Balloon Angioplasty: Minimally Invasive Autologous Revascularization
More About Balloon Angioplasty: Keeping Out of Trouble
Stents: Minimally Invasive Relining
The Infrarenal Aorta, Aortic Bifurcation, and Iliac Arteries: Advice about Balloon Angioplasty and Stent Placement
The Infrainguinal Arteries: Advice about Balloon Angioplasty and Stent Placement
Advice About Endovascular Salvage of Previous Reconstructions
Part III: Advanced Endovascular Therapy
New Tools and Devices and How to Use Them
Brachiocephalic Interventions
Visceral and Renal Arteries: Advice about Balloon Angioplasty and Stent Placement
Complex Lower-Extremity Revascularization
Coiling of Peripheral Aneurysms
Making a Clean Getaway: Puncture Site Management
Endovascular Complications Can Be Avoided
Index