Teaching and Training - Unit of Vascular Access
The main teaching objective of the Vascular Access Unit of the Hospital Clínic is a multidisciplinary approach to the management of vascular access. Among the main teaching lines, the following should be highlighted:
1. Master's Degree in Critical Patient Care and Emergencies. 'Vascular access in renal replacement techniques'. University of Barcelona and Autonomous University of Barcelona. Hospital Clínic of Barcelona. Teaching professor.
2. Engineering Clinical Applications Practice-II: 'Applicability of volume overload control biosensors and vascular access dysfunction monitoring'. Barcelona University. Center for Applied Research Manso (Dirac). Barcelona Teaching professor.
3. International Symposium on Endovascular Therapeutics (SITE). University of Medicine, Barcelona.
4. Ultrasound for hemodialysis nursing. Theoretical and practical workshop. Center for Dialysis and Clinical Applied Research (Dirac). Barcelona.
5. Update in Dialysis Symposium. 'Advances in vascular access in hemodialysis'. Vascular Access round table. Stone mine. Barcelona.
6. Active participation in the preparation of the European Guidelines for Vascular Surgery in Vascular Access. 2018 Clinical Practice Guidelines of the European Society for Vascular Surgery (ESVS). Eur J Vasc Endovasc Surg. 2018 June; 55: 757-818.
7. Active participation in the preparation of Spanish Vascular Access Guides. Spanish Clinical Guidelines on Vascular Access for Hemodialysis. nephrology 2017 November; 37 Suppl 1: 1-193.
8. Active participation, through the presentation of various studies, in presentations and moderation of tables in the field of vascular access in different national and international scientific societies: Spanish Multidisciplinary Vascular Access Group (GEMAV), Catalan Vascular Access Group (SCN), Vascular Access Society (VAS), Spanish Society of Angiology and Vascular Surgery (SEACV) and European Society of Vascular Surgery (ESVS).
9. Training of nephrology residents in the field of vascular access during their dialysis rotation.