A one-day course, run in partnership with Optima Skills, designed to improve CTO operators understanding and subsequent treatment of chronic total occlusions.
More specifically, the clinical assessment, techniques and tools used when addressing the Retrograde specific section of the hybrid algorithm
Topics covered:
•Evidence, Indications & Pathology
•Lab set-up and safety
•Teamwork
•Case based learning
•Angiographic analysis
•Collateral assessment
•Collateral wiring
•Crossing the CTO
•CTO Toolbox
•Trouble shooting & complications