Hands-On Cardiac Imaging and Doppler
Immediate and Effective Core Skills Training in Protocol and Practice
Immediate Benefits
Within the first hour of class you’ll find the complexity of echocardio-graphy demystified, and you’ll believe that you’ll be able to master it. The open, collaborative, interactive of the small group setting will encourage you to do it.
Proctored and independent hands-on sessions in our 24 Hour scan Lab will ensure you have opportunity to acquire and grow comfortable with the complex skills for success.
Lectures are interactive discussions, tailored to your own pace. A 200 page set of course materials will serve as lifelong reference, and our post conference mentoring is free forever.
Within the first hour of class you’ll find the complexity of echocardio-graphy demystified, and you’ll believe that you’ll be able to master it. The open, collaborative, interactive of the small group setting will encourage you to do it.
Proctored and independent hands-on sessions in our 24 Hour scan Lab will ensure you have opportunity to acquire and grow comfortable with the complex skills for success.
Lectures are interactive discussions, tailored to your own pace. A 200 page set of course materials will serve as lifelong reference, and our post conference mentoring is free forever.
Summary
This course meets the learner where she or he is and takes her to the point of independent practice and continued development in a clinically active environment.
Our approach integrates both anatomy and physiology to the process of imaging and analysis of cardiac form and function. No pertinent detail is excluded, and every element is presented in its context with every other, so that a complete mental image of the heart and its function is imparted--and remembered.
Half of class time is spent in proctored hands-on practice and half in interactive lectures. Independent scanning continues around the clock in our 24 Hour Scan Lab..
This course meets the learner where she or he is and takes her to the point of independent practice and continued development in a clinically active environment.
Our approach integrates both anatomy and physiology to the process of imaging and analysis of cardiac form and function. No pertinent detail is excluded, and every element is presented in its context with every other, so that a complete mental image of the heart and its function is imparted--and remembered.
Half of class time is spent in proctored hands-on practice and half in interactive lectures. Independent scanning continues around the clock in our 24 Hour Scan Lab..
Target Audience
- Sonographers who are beginning or extending their career skills into this area, and who will be working under the direct supervision of qualified and experienced staff.
- Nurses already working in cardiovascular medicine that are implementing ultrasound into their clinical service.
- Resident physicians in training who will be beginning their cardiology service rotation.
- Emergency physicians and hospitalists who will be using targeted echocardiography to answer immediate questions at the bedside.
- Primary care practitioners in underserved areas who will be working in colleague with cardiology constituents.
- Veterinary physicians contemplating use of ultrasound in their practice.
- Engineering and Marketing professionals who want to understand completely the clinical goals of the cardiology- product end user.
- Any professional, regardless of training, contemplating sitting for the ARDMS or CCI registry certification exam.
Schedule
CME Hours
Tuition
9:00-4:00pm, Adjourn 12:00 Noon final day.
Hands-On Scan Lab open 24 hours during course.
CME Hours
Approved for 37 AMA PRA Category I CME credits ™.
Tuition
$3400 (US funds). Includes course attendance, 24 hour Hands-On Laboratory, all course materials, and light lunch on the first day.
Hotel guests are offered complimentary breakfast each morning
and Social Hour with beverages and hot hors d'oeuvres Monday-Thursday. Post conference mentoring support is free forever.
Available Dates
• March 19-24
• April 30 - May 5
• June 11-16
• July 23-28
• September 3-8
• October 15-20
• December 3-8
Dallas, Texas
Dallas, Texas
Dallas, Texas
Dallas, Texas
Dallas, Texas
Dallas, Texas
Dallas, Texas
Hands-On Peripheral Vascular Imaging follows next day &
Hands-On Pelvic/Obstetric Imaging follows the next day
Hands-On Pelvic/Obstetric Imaging follows the next day
Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course the learner should be able to:
- Complete an expeditious and unabridged examination of the adult heart, making all relevant measurements and documenting all relevant findings.
- Draw and identify the structures contained in each of the standard planar echocardiographic views of the adult heart.
- Specify and describe normal versus suspected abnormal findings with respect to chamber size, wall and valve motion, wall thickness, masses, and effusion.
- Describe the differences between M-Mode and two-dimensional image representation, citing the advantages and limitations of each.
- Recognize and correct operator errors to maximize system sensitivity of any machine, with M-mode, two-dimensional, and Doppler, to avoid the most common false negative/positive findings.
- Define the following terms and relate them to their clinical impact in altered hemodynamic states:
• preload, afterload
• orifice stenosis, Bernoulli effect
• valvular regurgitation and insufficiency
• tachycardia
• hypokinesis, hypokinesis, akinesis - Based on clinical findings, select, describe the basis for, and execute the appropriate Doppler calculation for a given pathological state, including:
• expanded Bernoulli equation
• peak and mean pressure gradient
• continuity equation
• pressure half-time for the mitral and aortic valves
• color Doppler mapping of mitral valve area
• pulmonic valve acceleration time
• objective and subjective assessment of valvular insufficiency in all four valves
• hepatic vein flow assessment
• systolic and diastolic dysfunction.
- More details on:
- Exchange your commitment for your employer's training support: download a contract proposal here
- Download free anatomy charts and more, and visit the
Pre- and Post Conference Reading Room