Vascular Diseases: A Guide for Nurses

About the Book

This book offers a practical approach for medical and nursing staff with a step-by-step guide to caring for patients in a variety of vascular clinical settings. It follows a patient's path of care from management in the outpatient clinic, through to the hospital ward, theatre, recovery room and back to the follow-up outpatient clinic. A clear, concise format is used throughout the book, with reference to evidence-based interventions and the physiology underpinning them, and the use of simple line diagrams and treatment flow charts to illustrate the essential aspects of care.
This book reflects the multidisciplinary nature of vascular patient care and is a valuable resource for nurses, surgeons and other healthcare professionals involved in caring for this vascular patient group. It builds on the vascular experience, knowledge and evidence highlighting the recent clinical trend and scientific innovation in vascular disease and surgery coupling recent technological advancement in device technology and vascular surgery application.

About the Author:

Mr Haytham Al-Khaffaf, MB, CH.B, FRCS has been a Consultant vascular surgeon in East Lancashire hospitals NHS trust since 1996. He completed his vascular training in Manchester and has a special interest in carotid surgery and vascular access for haemodialysis. His research interests are; prevention and management of Steal syndrome in haemodialysis access, vascular access surveillance and effects of dialysis access on cardiac function, Carotid endarterectomy technique, Litigation claims in vascular surgery, Vascular Complications in IV drug users, DVT in arterial surgery and Vascular complications in endurance athletes.

He wrote the book 'Vascular surgery, a Handbook for nurses' in 2005. He has made over 100 presentations in national and international societies and published over 60 papers. Mr Al-Khaffaf's professional membership includes the General Medical council, the Royal college of Surgeons of Edinburgh, the Vascular society of Great Britain and Ireland (VSGBI), the European society of Vascular and Endovascular surgery (ESVES), the Vascular access society (VAS), and the Vascular access society of Britain and Ireland (VASBI).

Professor Mohamad Bashir is based at Velindre University NHS Trust and Health Education and Improvement Wales - Vascular & Endovascular Surgery. He holds a Visiting Professorship at the University of South Wales and a Professorship in Cardiovascular Clinical Research at the Institute of Coronary & Advanced Aortic Diseases at SIMS Hospital which is one of the largest and most dedicated Aortic Diseases Management Centres in India. He is also a Clinical Professor of Cardiac Surgery at Shahid Rajaie Cardiovascular, Medical & Research Center in Tehran - Iran.
Professor Bashir graduated from Kaunas University of Medicine, Lithuania in 2000. He completed his general surgical training in 2005 and became a member of both the Royal College of Surgeons of England and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow in 2007. He trained in cardiothoracic surgery at various UK centers and pursued academic and clinical training in aortovascular and cardiothoracic transplantation at Birmingham University Teaching Hospitals with the late Professor Robert S. Bonser. He developed an avid interest in aortovascular disease and aortic aneurysm surgery. In 2016, he completed a Ph.D. in Health Economics and Clinical Evaluation in Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm at the University of Liverpool.

Professor Bashir has an Advanced Research Scholar Degree from the Harvard School of Medicine. He has a track record of over 250 peer-reviewed publications and book chapters. He lectured numerously on national and international levels and is the founder and editor of the Aortovascular Portal at the largest cardiovascular media platform - CTSNet. Professor Bashir serves on the Executive Board of multiple aortic and surgical journals including AORTA Journal, and Journal of Cardiac Surgery, and has been Guest Editor on many Special Editions focused on aortovascular medicine and surgery with many eminent and renowned colleagues in this specialty.

Sharon Dorgan is a Senior Strategic Manager, Workforce Development Lead, CRN North East and North Cumbria NIHR Clinical Research Network (CRN). Her nursing career began in the 1990s in Leeds where she developed a passion for research from the outset. Sharon's successful applications for research bursaries afforded her opportunities to explore in the UK and USA the impact on patient care of Integrated Care Pathways within a vascular care setting. Her clinical career culminated in the role of Nurse Consultant, during which time she wrote for a variety of health care publications, co-edited a book regarding nursing care for patients with peripheral vascular disease and undertook a major piece of research regarding exercise therapy for this patient group as part of her MPhil.Sharon joined the Clinical Research Network in 2008 where she has worked in a variety of senior research management roles as Lead Research Management & Governance Manager, Research Operations Manager and Strategy Development Lead. The latter post, jointly funded by Clinical Research Network North East North Cumbria (CRN NENC) and Health Education England North East (HEE NE) saw the development of a strategy and implementation plan for the research Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professional (NMAHP) workforce. Sharon's current role as Senior Strategic Manager, now concentrates on implementing this strategy. She has taught on the Postgraduate Certificate in Clinical Research at Newcastle University and now plays a major supporting link role with the NIHR Coordinating Centre, regional NHS research offices, NHS and HEI research teams, the Research Design Service and Applied Research Collaboration.
Qualifying from University of Central Lancashire March 2004, Lyndsey began as a Staff Nurse at Burnley General Hospital on a General Surgical ward specialising in vascular Surgery. During re-organisation and re-structure, Lyndsey accepted a permanent position on a newly opened Vascular Ward at Royal Blackburn Hospital where she continued as Vascular Staff Nurse until she was promoted into the role of Vascular Nurse Specialist in June 2010. In 2011, Lyndsey presented research at Wounds UK and in addition had her work published. During the growth of the Vascular Centre and team expansion, Lyndsey was promoted to Lead Vascular Nurse Specialist for ELHT in March 2017.

As senior Vascular Nurse Specialist, Lyndsey has successfully implemented Vascular Nurse Led Clinics in the community, aiming to provide specialist support to vascular patients closer to home.

Working in close collaboration with Nursing teams in the community, Lyndsey plays an important role in management planning, Vascular service development and staff training.

In addition to this, Lyndsey has successfully implemented and currently co-ordinates a Community Vascular Multi-disciplinary Team meeting which is aimed to provide advice and support to Community Nursing teams who wish to refer into secondary care for consultation.