Certification of Basic Skills in Endovascular Aortic Repair Through a Modular Simulation Course With Real Time Performance Assessment.

Objective: Endovascular aortic repair (EVAR) is being used increasingly for the treatment of infrarenal abdominal aortic aneurysms. Improvement in educational strategies is required to teach future vascular surgeons EVAR skills, but a comprehensive, pre-defined e-learning and simulation curriculum remains to be developed and tested. EndoVascular Aortic Repair Assessment of Technical Expertise (EVARATE), an assessment tool for simulation based education (SBE) in EVAR, has previously been designed to assess EVAR skills, and a pass limit defining mastery level has been set.

Danish Nationwide Study on Surgical Treatment of Infective Native Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms.

Objective: This study aimed to describe surgical trends, survival, and infection related complications (IRC) in a Danish cohort of patients with infective native aortic aneurysms (INAAs).

Methods: A retrospective nationwide cohort study including all patients in Denmark who were surgically treated for abdominal INAA between 2000 and 2020 was conducted. Patients were identified through the Danish vascular registry, Karbase, which is a database registering all patients treated with vascular surgery in Denmark.

Simulation-Based Education of Endovascular Scrub Nurses Reduces Stress and Improves Team Performance.

Introduction: Endovascular procedures have become commonplace in vascular surgery. This development calls for new training strategies for future specialists. Most simulation-based education (SBE) programs have a monodisciplinary focus on physicians, although successful surgery is a multidisciplinary team effort.

Anticoagulants and reduced thrombus load in abdominal aortic aneurysms assessed with three-dimensional contrast-enhanced ultrasound examination.

Objective: The relationship between intraluminal thrombus (ILT) and abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) growth and rupture risk remains ambiguous. Studies have shown a limited effect of antiplatelet therapy on ILT size, whereas the impact of anticoagulant therapy on ILT is unresolved. This study aims to evaluate an association between antithrombotic therapy and ILT size assessed with three-dimensional contrast-enhanced ultrasound (3D-CEUS) examination in a cohort of patients with AAA.