Cathi and VSS Launch Online Training Program for Endovascular Simulation

May 13, 2022—Cathi GmbH, an endovascular simulator supplier headquartered in Mannheim, Germany, announced it has joined forces with United Kingdom-based Vascular Simulation Solutions (VSS) to offer an online training masterclass using endovascular simulation coupled to a structured curriculum using the Cathis simulator, which is fully functional with all standard software systems including every iOS system and Oculus virtual reality device.

According to the company, the structured curriculum is delivered by specialist endovascular instructors with many years of clinical experience.

The program is targeted at specialist trainees during every year of their course, medical students (condensed course), and interested interventionists. The scope of the package includes endovascular aneurysm repair, carotid, renal, iliac, femoral, and tibial artery angioplasties. In addition, the curriculum includes training on emergency vascular cases such as ruptured aneurysms and visceral bleeding and trauma.

The program is accredited by the United Kingdom’s Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh for continuing professional development (CPD), valued at 12 CPD points.

The companies are offering the program in cooperation with vascular and endovascular surgeon Abdullah Jibawi, MD.

“We have built our curriculum with the end-user in mind in every minute detail,” commented Dr. Jibawi in the Cathi press release. “We want to answer the real need for training by allowing a layer-by-layer build-up of skills and decision-making, associated with availability of performing procedure where and when the trainees feel so. Our program introduces the ability to train interventionists over a specified period of time, followed by a customized exposure to a specified product line to fine-tune their experience as needed and required."