This document provides an overview of basic endovascular surgery techniques and interventions. It discusses the history and development of endovascular therapies from crude early techniques to modern devices. It describes common instruments used including needles, wires, catheters, sheaths, balloons, stents and stent grafts. It also summarizes access techniques, contrast agents, guidewire anatomy and construction, dilators, sheaths and catheters. The document discusses indications for endovascular interventions and various applications in treating conditions like abdominal aortic aneurysms, iliac, renal and carotid artery disease. It presents some future directions including gene identification and cell therapies.