Confidence in Echocardiography

Description

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Current syllabus includes:

Module 1: core views

Introduction
The Right Parasternal Inflow View
The Right Parasternal Outflow View
Preparation for scanning: Image Optimisation & Tissue Harmonic Imaging
Colour Doppler in Echocardiography

Module 2: wall thickness, dimensions and systolic function

Visual assessment of chamber sizes, wall thickness and left ventricular systolic function.
Visual assessment from the right parasternal long axis approach
Visual assessment continued
Colour Box Placement

Module 3: the left ventricle

The papillary muscle level or “mushroom view”
The mitral valve level or “fish mouth view”
The apical short axis view
Introducing the short axis
Obtaining B and M mode short axis images
Performing your measurements: IVS, LVIDd, PW and LVIDs
Left Ventricular Systolic Function
Fractional Shortening & Ejection Fraction

Module 4: the semilunar valves

The Aortic Valve in Long Axis
The Aortic Valve in Short Axis
Visualising the Pulmonary Valve
The Left Atrium
Inspirion Exercise
An in-depth look at the history and evolution of the LA:Ao ratio measurement, and how to perform it
Familiarisation with pulmonary regurgitation.
Calculating an LA:Ao ratio
Left atrial diameter

Module 5: the atrioventricular valves

The Tricuspid Valve
The Mitral Valve
Mitral Stenosis
Mitral Regurgitation
Primary mitral regurgitation: myxomatous mitral valve disease
Secondary mitral regurgitation: Functional mitral valve disease
Colour Doppler in patients with mitral regurgitation
Case walkthrough

Module 6: the right heart

What is pulmonary hypertension?
Assessing the right heart
Pressure overload
Volume overload
Septal flattening
Feline patients
Introduction to apical probe positioning
Obtaining your 4 and 5 chamber views
Quantifying RV longitudinal function with TAPSE

Module 7: cardiomyopathies

Primary and secondary signs of cardiomyopathy on echocardiography
How to screen for cardiomyopathy with cardiac ultrasound
Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
Papillary Muscles
Measuring wall thickness
Obstructive HCM
Diastolic Function & HCM
Dilated Cardiomyopathy
EPSS
Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy
Calculating Ejection Fraction from the apical and right parasternal views

Module 8: effusions

Pericardial effusions
Reporting pericardial effusions
Differentiating pericardial and pleural effusions
Effusion examples
Getting started with spectral Doppler

Doppler 1: spectral Doppler in HCM

HCM: Taking a closer look
How can Doppler help?
Dynamic outflow tract obstruction and CW Doppler
A walkthrough of your most important controls when using spectral Doppler
Your most important spectral Doppler controls

Doppler 2: spectral Doppler for diastolic function assessment

Mitral inflow patterns in normal cats and dogs
Tissue Doppler patterns in normal cats and dogs
Stages of diastolic dysfunction
Obtaining a trace for isovolumic relaxation time (IVRT)
Understanding pulmonary vein Doppler

Doppler 3: Doppler techniques for right heart assessment

Understanding right ventricular systolic pressure and pulmonary artery systolic pressure
Estimating pulmonary pressures
TAPSE
Obtaining S’
Examining the right heart in patients with mitral valve disease
Fractional area change vs TAPSE

Echo case walkthroughs & webinars:

A cat with a ventricular septal defect
Full feline echo walkthrough
A dog referred for possible pulmonic stenosis
A dog with aortic valve disease
A cat with a dilated left atrium. HCM or HOCM?
Labrador with tricuspid valve dysplasia
Gizmo the cat with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
Global Longitudinal Strain
Using artificial intelligence for echocardiography reporting
HCM cases with Professor Luis Fuentes
Lessons from human valve disease with Dr Nilesh Sutaria
Using PISA to assess mitral regurgitation, with echocardiographer Matthew Travis
Pulmonary hypertension with Joshua Hannabuss
Linear dimension measurements with Catherine Stowell