Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm Repair

The curriculum requires one to be able to 'describe the resuscitation and management of major vascular accidents including the management of ruptured aortic aneurysms'.

There is no explicit mention of thoracic aneurysms however, so the time-poor candidate may wish to skip this topic and rely on learning the (largely overlapping) principles of AAA repair instead.

Conversely, the cardiothoracic curriculum asks for candidates to be able to 'assess patients with intra-thoracic aortic pathology such as aneurysm, dissection and coarctation...'.

A review of the below articles and of aortic dissection may therefore be pertinent