Before you start...

Required pre-reading

Please ensure you have read the following before the first session:

1.  Updates on AAA screening and surveillance
2. Aortic aneurysms | Screening, surveillance and referral
3. Abdominal aortic aneurysm: An update
4. Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm (AAA)
5. Acute Aortic Dissection
6. Aortic Aneurysm Screening (ANZSVS)
7. Clinical Practice Guidelines: Cardiac/Acute aortic dissection

Recommended references

The following are recommended scholarly articles relating to this patient:

1. The Multicentre Aneurysm Screening Study (MASS) into the effect of abdominal aortic aneurysm screening on mortality in men: a randomised controlled trial.
2. High prevalence of abdominal aortic aneurysm in a primary care screening programme
3. Mortality results for randomised controlled trial of early elective surgery or ultrasonographic surveillance for small abdominal aortic aneurysms. The UK Small Aneurysm Trial Participants
4. The case against a national screening programme for aortic aneurysms
5. Immediate repair compared with surveillance of small abdominal aortic aneurysms