About Vascupedia

What is Vascupedia?

Vascupedia is a unique online project that we believe fulfills the need for free education in the challenging field of Vascular Medicine.

Our mission

Our mission is to help physicians worldwide to bring their interventions to perfection. Our hope is to indirectly contribute to safety and well-being of patients with vascular diseases.

Which is the added value of Vascupedia?

Vascupedia is free for everybody and combines all-in-one:

1. an active platform (Main Arena), where registered physicians or researchers (Vascupedians) can upload their scientific presentations, case reports, vascular images, reviews or questions to their colleagues. This platform is completely independent of the industry and the Vascupedians have the opportunity to highlight their work and to share their experience, to learn new techniques, to discuss on several issues regarding their daily practice and finally to foster their networking. Please check our instructions for authors and editorial policy before starting the upload of your presentation or video.
2. a voting platform (Polling Station), where registered physicians or researchers can vote on a monthly basis on controversial questions, cases, and debates concerning different interesting topics in Vascular Medicine. This platform serves as a tool to address current practice worldwide, to define investigation topics of future clinical trials, to answer controversial issues in Vascular Medicine and to understand unmet needs of the physicians. The participants are able to see after the completion of their voting the opinion of an invited expert as well as the ongoing results.
3. an exhibition platform (Exhibition Area), where registered companies provide a comprehensive and credible product information according to the indication for use. This includes features and characteristics of the product, animations, expert’s opinions, related literature and lectures, the save-the-date announcement of workshops and sponsored symposia, recorded video cases and links to webinars. This platform is supported by the industry and serves as a communication channel between Vascupedians and manufacturers. All companies are equally presented in alphabetical order. Hence, every Vascupedian has a fair overview of all manufacturers regardless the size of the company or number of the products.
4. additional educational platforms like Journal Club, Guidelines or Conference Calendar. These platforms serve as a tool for physicians to stay updated about literature highlights, to facilitate their decision making in accordance with evidence-based medicine and to organize their ongoing education through the entire year respectively.

Be a Vascupedian

Vascupedia is an open-access platform for everybody. The reason is that we aim to free education for medical professionals worldwide. However, every physician, researcher, nurse or technicians is welcomed to support this initiative and to be a member of this team, i.e. to be a Vascupedian. This step requires your registration as Vascupedian.

The advantages of being a Vascupedian are the following:

• you can upload your scientific work in order that everybody is aware of your research
• you can inform other physicians about interesting case reports, considering also the difficulty to publish these cases in scientific journals
• you can highlight special techniques that you have developed or adopted in your daily practice
• you can upload interesting vascular images to educate your colleagues or to challenge their knowledge
• you can ask other Vascupedians about their opinion in difficult clinical scenarios or on study outcomes
• you can comment on uploads of other Vascupedians, discuss with them and learn from this kind of networking
• you can express your opinion and actively vote for the Topic of the Week at Polling Station

The clap-button

All visitors of Vascupedia are welcome to acknowledge the value of the uploads of other Vascupedians with applause any time that they think that an upload is valuable for their clinical practice.

OneViewX by SparkBio

SparkBio (http://www.sparkbio.it) is an official partner of Vascupedia. The OneViewX system is a very innovative product of the company. It is a modern software technology for video and analog signals acquisition at surgery and interventional rooms. The software integrates WebEx APIs for remote support and e-learning integration. OneViewX system allows you to record the entire interventional procedure. This means that the system records into a unique video file (.avi extension) each video signal coming from the medical devices connecting to OneView workstation (Fluoroscopy, MacLab IVUS, camera, etc) simultaneously. Furthermore, the system allows the broadcast in real time of the screen by using the internet (CISCO WEBX application). This enables several scenarios for the physician as teleproctoring, e-learning and remote assistance of physicians from the other side of the world.  Learn More about OneView Technology by visiting the official website www.oneviewx.com.

Become a partner

Our aim is to help medical professionals to provide better decisions in vascular medicine every day. You can too. Vascupedia is free of charge, open access and available everywhere: in the physician’s office, at home, on the go. Use our platform to inform the physicians on a daily basis about the effectiveness of your products and techniques, where it matters most. Take the opportunity and become our partner, here.

The development team

Meet Manxdesign, the developers behind Vascupedia.