Clinical Echocardiography Course (CME Pending)
The Clinical Echocardiography Course is a one day course held immediately after our Critical Care Ultrasound Course in Las Vegas this May that covers all the primary applications of emergency echocardiogrphy. The course is arranged so lectures are given in the morning with concentrated hands on lab experience in the afternoon. The lab uses live models for a realistic training experience and we provide faculty coverage to ensure a significant hands on experience for each participant.
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Upon completion of the Clinical Echocardiography Course, participants will be able to :
1) Demonstrate the ability to properly operate an ultrasound machine and make adjustments to obtain adequate image quality.
2) Acquire cardiac ultrasound images in multiple planes
3) Acquire ultrasound images used to determine right and left heart size and cardiac function, evaluate for wall motion abnormalities, evaluate valvular abnormalities.
4) Understand how to use ultrasound to evaluate life threatening cardiac pathology.
| Clicnal Echocardiography Course | |
| Sample Agenda | |
| 0730-0745 | Introduction - Becoming and Echo Expert Where we have been and where we are going |
| 0745-0815 | Tips and Tricks of Advanced Echo Imaging Optimizing the 2D image, MMode, spectral Doppler, color Doppler. Additional views that make a difference. |
| 0815-0845 | Size, Geometry and Function of the Left Ventricle Simple methods to grade systolic and diastolic left ventricular function. Detecting dilated and hypertrophic Cardiomyopathies and left ventricular hypertrophy. |
| 0845-0900 | Break |
| 0900-0945 | Left Ventricular Function - From Theory to Practice Clinical examples, Scenarios where left ventricular function is important, visual estimation of left ventricular function in different settings, training the eye - practice session. |
| 0945-1000 | Break |
| 1045-1145 | Coranary Artery Disease and Acute Myocardial Infarctions How to detect regional wall motion abnormalities. Patterns of myocardial infarction. Differential diagnosis. |
| 1045-1105 |
Complications of Myocardial Infarction |
| 1105-1145 | The Right Heart Right ventricular function, pulmonary embolism and pulmonary hypertension. |
| 1145-1245 | Lunch |
| 1245-1415 | Mitral and Aortic Regurgitation What causes regurgitation? Detecting regurgitation, Understanding the nature of color Doppler jets, quantifying regurgitation, Clinical examples - practice session. |
| 1415-1435 |
Endocarditis |
| 1435-1500 | Pericardial Effusion and Tamponade Typical features of pericardial effusion, types of effusion, does effusion cause hemodynamic impairment? |
| 1500-1800 | Training Lab |
Course Info Links
The Introductory Course (Up to 59 hours of CME)
The Advanced Ultrasound Course (Up to 55 hours of CME)
The Vascular Access Ultrasound Course (Up to 41 hours of CME)
The Trauma Ultrasound Course (Up to 55 hours of CME)
Critical Care Ultrasound Course (Up to 57 hours of CME)
Clinical Echocardiography Course (CME Pending)
Musculoskeletal Ultrasound Course (CME pending)