About

International Vascular Cork 2023 Course is being brought to you by UCC/CoMH and The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. It will be held in The ASSERT Centre, College of Medicine & Health, UCC, Cork on the 9th and 10th of November 2023.

This course is geared towards vascular surgical trainees and practising vascular surgeons who wish to develop their skills in open dissections, vascular anastomosis and vascular ultrasound.

Participants will gain hands-on experience with open surgical dissection and reconstruction procedures on cadavers in our state of-the-art surgical skills laboratory. The simulated operating rooms feature integrated audio-visual facilities to allow for real time and post procedure feedback from expert faculty. There will be 2-3 participants per cadaver and each participant will spend the equivalent of a full day on this component of the course over the 2-day period.

The Vascular Ultrasound and Anastomotic Technique component will run over 4 sessions across the 2 days and each participant will rotate through the sessions where they will have the opportunity to scan peripheral veins, the aorta and the carotid artery on an actor patient and there will be 1-to-1 supervision/direction by Vascular Physiologists.

The Anastomotic Technique component on prosthetic and biological tissue will allow for detailed technical instruction with video recording and analysis to allow for objective assessment and feedback.

Pre-course reading material will be provided.

Course Content:

• Fresh Frozen Cadaveric Dissection
• Arterial and Venous Anastomosis
• Vascular Ultrasound

Examples of Exposures which will be included in the open component are:

• Surpacoeliac Aorta
• Visceral and infrarenal aorta
• Medial visceral rotations
• Femoral and iliac Vessels
• Carotid and Vertebral Arteries

Course Inclusions:

Morning, lunch, afternoon breaks and refreshments each day

Faculty

Paul Blair
Joanne Boyce
Emily Boyle
Joseph Dowdall
Martin Feeley
Greg Fulton
Greg Gosi
Denis Harkin
Eamon Kavanagh
Avril Kenny
Elrasheid Kheirelseid
Prakash Madhavan
Brian Manning
Ciaran McDonnell
Gerald McGreal
Morgan McMonagle
Tony Moloney
Adrian O’Callaghan
Veni Ramachandran
Muhammad Tubassam