DESCRIPTION:
Operator skills, and in particular decision-making and strategic skills, are the most critical factor for the outcome of catheter-based cardiovascular interventions. Currently, such skills are commonly developed by the empirical trial and error method only. In this textbook, for the first time, an explicit teaching, training, and learning approach is set out that will enable interventional operators, whether cardiologists, vascular surgeons, vascular specialists, or radiologists, to learn about and to develop the cognitive skills required in order to achieve consistent expert-level catheter-based interventions. It is anticipated that adoption of this approach will allow catheter-based interventions to become a domain of excellence, with rapid transfer of knowledge, steep learning curves, and highly efficient acquisition of complex skills by individual operators _ all of which are essential if we are to meet successfully the challenges of modern cardiovascular care embedded in highly competitive health care markets.
CONTENTS:
Part I Historical Background
1.Historical Account: Interventional Cardiology
2.Historical Account: Cardiovascular Interventional Radiology
3.Historical Account of Interventional Neuroradiology
Part II Knowledge
4.Knowledge
5.Knowledge and Its Transmission
Part III Skills and Expertise
6.Cognitive Science: An Introduction
7.Cognitive Skills in Medicine
8.Psychomotor Skills
9.Professional Expertise in Medicine
10.Cognitive and Decision Making Skills in Catheter-Based Cardiovascular Interventions
11.Legal Expertise
12.Development and Teaching of Complex Skills in Invasive Procedures
13.Computer Simulation as Training Tool for Coronary Interventions
Part IV Diagnostic Modalities
14.Cardiovascular X-Ray Imaging: Physics, Equipment and Techniques
15.Radiation Protection
16.Interventional X-ray coronary angiography
17.Cerebral Angiography
18.Peripheral Angiography
19.Intravascular Ultrasound
20.Fractional Flow Reserve
21.Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT)
Part V Clinical Concepts
22.Femoral and Brachial Artery Access
23.Transradial Access for Percutaneous Coronary Interventions
24.Transpopliteal Access
25.Transpedal Access
26.Closure of Percutaneous Vascular Access
27.Instrumentation
28.Guiding Catheters
Part VI Coronary Artery Disease
29.Intracoronary stenting strategies
30.Percutaenous Intervention of Left Main Coronary Artery Disease: Treatment for Left Main Coronary Artery Disease
31.Treatment of Coronary Artery Bifurcation Lesions
32.Percutaneous Saphenous Vein Graft and Arterial Graft Intervention
33.Percutaneous Treatment of Chronic Total Occlusions
34.Multivessel Disease
35.Adequacy and Extent of Myocardial Revascularization
36.Elective Versus Emergency PCI: Cardiogenic Shock
37.PCI Complications: Dissections, Rupture, Embolization, and Closure
Part VII Structural Heart Disease
38.Atrial Septum Defect Closure
39.Patent Foramen Ovale Closure
40.Left Atrial Appendage Closure
41.Paravalvular Leaks
42.Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
43.Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI) with the Edwards SAPIEN XT® Device
44.Percutaneous Transcatheter Therapy of Mitral Valve Regurgitation
Part VIII Cerebrovascular Disease
45.Acute Ischemic Stroke
46.Intracranial Aneurysms
47.Arteriovenous Malformations
48.Dural Arteriovenous Fistulas
49.Intracranial Atherosclerotic Disease
50.Spinal Vascular Lesions
51.Endovascular Treatment of Carotid Artery Disease
52.Endovascular Treatment of Vertebral and Basilar Artery Disease
Part IX Peripheral Artery Disease
53.Endovascular Treatment of Iliac Artery Disease
54.Endovascular Treatment of Above the Knee and Popliteal Arteries
55.Endovascular Treatment of Below-the-Knee Arteries
56.Endovascular Treatment of Renal Arteries
57.Renal Denervation
58.Endovascular Treatment of Visceral Arteries
Part X Aortic Disease
59.Endovascular Treatment of Thoracic Aorta
60.Endovascular Repair of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm
Part XI Venous Disease
61.Endovascular Treatment of Hemodialysis Access and Central Veins
Part XII Foreign Body Retrieval
62.Foreign Body Retrieval
