CADSIM Vascular Neck Surgery course (12/05/2025)

CADSIM pp	Dissecting Room Regulations
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Please read the dissection room regulations prior to attending the course. You will be asked to sign that you have read the regulations on the day at registration.

The course Director is Mr  Tim Stansfield, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

The course is free for Yorkshire and Humber Trainees. Priority will be given to regional trainees. Please make sure you meet the correct grade criteria for each speciality before booking your place and book your study leave promptly. Once you have booked your place on the course you will get an email reminder 2 weeks before the course. If you fail to attend on the day for a non- valid reason, you are denying someone else the chance to attend, and your details will be forwarded to your TPD.

Surgical gowns, over shoes, facemasks and gloves are provided for the lab. If you wish to wear theatre blues please bring your own.

The anatomy lab is on Level 9, Worsley Building, University of Leeds

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Please contact J.johnson1@leeds.ac.uk if you have any special dietary requests.

Failure to attend the course on the day/s without contacting the course administrator prior to the course starting or cadsim@leeds.ac.uk will be followed up with your TPD.

Mandatory: Specialty Registrar ST3, or Specialty Registrar ST4, or Specialty Registrar ST5, or Specialty Registrar ST6, or Specialty Registrar ST7, or Specialty Registrar ST8

Aims of Vascular CADSIM:

Neck To develop the surgical skills required by a vascular surgeon for operating above the clavicle.

Learning Objectives of Vascular CADSIM:

Neck At the end of this teaching day delegates should be able to demonstrate:

1. Access and exposures: vessel exposures above the clavicle1 required by a vascular surgeon: Vertebral artery, carotid system, IJV, subclavian and axillary vessels

2. Manoeuvres 1: Decompression of the thoracic outlet: scalenectomy, first rib excision

3. Manoeuvres 2: Carotid Endarterectomy (standard and eversion), Carotid shunt

4. Anastomoses: Carotid patch, SCA-Carotid bypass, Carotid -carotid bypass, subclavian transposition