Peripheral Bypass Surgery – Open Vascular Surgery on a Vascular Model

Friday, 26 June 2026
Time: 8:30 a.m.–5:00 p.m.

Scientific Director: Alexander Hyhlik-Dürr (Augsburg)
Speakers: Johannes Gahlen (Ludwigsburg), Sebastian Zerwes (Augsburg)

Advances in endovascular techniques are making it increasingly difficult to provide practical training for assistant doctors in "traditional open surgery". Added to this is the "commercialisation of surgery" with enormous time pressure in the operating theatre.

The aim of the open surgery courses is therefore to teach the basics of open vascular surgery using models, so that students already have a certain level of confidence when they perform their first "real-life operations". The courses focus on practical exercises using models, with theory taught only to the extent necessary to understand the underlying surgical technique.

Colleagues in their third or fourth year of further training will benefit most from this course.

Contents

08:30 – 08:35	Welcome and group allocation
08:35 – 08:45	Industry presentation by Johnson & Johnson MedTech : Fundamentals of suture materials in vascular surgery Speakers: Max Krellenberg / Pavel Hundt
08:45 – 09:00	Surgical techniques: Access routes in peripheral bypass surgery (Kalder)
09:00 – 12:15	Practical exercises on a vascular model: Surgical technique: patch plasty (AFC), fork transposition
12.15 – 12.30	Theoretical principles of suture material
12.30 – 13.00	Break
1.00 pm – 1.15 pm	Theoretical principles of prosthetic materials
1.15 pm – 4.30 pm	Practical exercises on a vascular model: femoro-femoral bypass, femoro-popliteal bypass, in-situ bypass techniques
4.30 pm – 5.00 pm	Debriefing and presentation of certificates