ABSTRACT
Endovascular skills are an integral part of vascular patient care. As the scope of catheter-based treatment broadens, the ability to manage more complex lesions with these techniques will increase. The development of guidewirecatheter skills is not an easily de Qnable goal, but is a dynamic process. Knowledge and facility must be achieved in several nonintuitive areas, including coordinating Muoroscopic-eye-hand movements, predicting guidewire-lesion interactions, understanding the behavior of various guidewire and catheter combinations, learning the limits of each technique (knowing when to quit), and becoming familiar with the available, and rapidly evolving, technology. These are the basic endovascular skills. Part I of this book provides an overview of basic endovascular skills. Part II presents techniques in endovascular therapy that build upon the basic skills.
