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Vascular Surgery
Arteries and veins outside the heart: aneurysms repaired from within by stent graft or from without by sew, carotid disease and the strokes it threatens, and the ischaemic limb, where the six Ps and the clock decide everything.
The operations
Procedures
What the specialty does in theatre, with the imagery that goes with it.
What the specialty does in theatre: each operation with its image, its indication, and the doors into OR prep and the step-by-step walkthrough.
Featured operation
Carotid endarterectomy
Coring the stroke-throwing plaque out of the carotid bifurcation, done soon after the warning event, with three cranial nerves watching the field.
Indication: Symptomatic carotid stenosis (TIA or minor stroke with 50-99 percent stenosis), ideally within two weeks of the event.
Common and emergency operations
The rest of the list
Hub shaped by the Surgical Specialties Lead with the Vascular surgery reviewer (open seat). Images and videos carry their source; educational use for supervised learning, not clinical guidance.