Hands-on Course in Basic Paediatric Echocardiography

This course is now folly booked; you can add your name to the waiting by clicking the link ADD ME TO THE WAITING LIST.

The workshop and presentations will focus on recognising and understanding basic paediatric echocardiography and morphology of the normal heart and hearts with simple lesions. This two day program is designed to take registrants from the basics of normal hearts and simple congenital heart disease to a hands-on imaging workshop in the afternoon.

Date:

Saturday 8th & Sunday 9th June 2013

Location:

Leolin Price Lecture Theatre

Lower Gorund Floor

UCL Institute of Child Health, London.

The workshop and presentations will focus on recognising and understanding basic paediatric echocardiography and morphology of the normal heart and hearts with simple lesions. This two day program is designed to take registrants from the basics of normal hearts and simple congenital heart disease to a hands-on imaging workshop in the afternoon.

CPD Accreditation from the Royal College Paediatrics and Child Health has been applied for.

Who should attend?

  • Registrars
  • Neonatologists
  • Echo sonographers
  • All professions who manage and treat patients with heart disease

Why you should attend:

The course will help delegates understand how we obtain the echo images, the echo views and how images are obtained.

It will help delegates identify simple heart lesions and demonstrate basic knowledge of anatomy and physiology in basic congenital heart disease.

Saturday 8th June 2013

Sequential Analysis and Function Assessment

09.15 - 09.45 Registration
09.45 - 10.45 Segmental Sequential Analysis of the Heart – Normal Morphology      Andrew Cook
10.45 - 11.25 Segmental Sequential Analysis by echocardiography      Gill Riley
11.25 - 11.45 Coffee Break
11.45 - 12.10
Function Assessment      Synetta Jenkyns
12.10 - 12.30 Image Optimisation      Alex Jones
12.30 - 13.30 Lunch
13.30 - 16.00 Hands-on Workshop in Echo Department: Scanning normal hearts

Sunday 9th June 2013

Scanning Congenital Heart Disease

09.00 - 10.15 Morphology of simple congenital heart specimens      Andrew Cook
10.15 - 10.35 Aortic Stenosis and Coarctation of Aorta      Jacob Simmonds
10.35 - 11.25
Atrial and Ventricular Septal Defects      Michelle Carr
11.25 - 11.45 Coffee Break
11.45 - 12.05 Assessment of Pulmonary Hypertension      Srinidhi Rao
12.05 - 12.25 Patent Arterial Duct      Valentina Giudici
12.25 - 12.50 Pulmonary Stenosis and Tetralogy of Fallot      Paolo Ciliberti
12.50 - 13.40 Lunch Break
13.45 - 16.45

Hands-on Workshop in Echo Department: Scanning hearts with simple lesions

Course Directors

Miss Gill Riley, Chief Echocardiographer, Great Ormond Street Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London

Dr Michelle Carr, Consultant Cardiologist, Great Ormond Street Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London

Faculty

Dr Andrew Cook, Senior Lecturer, Institute Cardiovascular Sciences, UCL Institute of Child Health, London

Dr Valentina Giudici, Paediatric Cardiology Clinical Fellow, Great Ormond Street Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London

Dr Synetta Jenkyns, Great Ormond Street Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London

Dr Alex Jones, Clinician Scientist, Cardiovascular Imaging Group, Great Ormond Street Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London

Dr Srinidhi Rao, Fellow in Paediatric Pulmonary Hypertension, Great Ormond Street Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London

Dr Jacob Simmonds, SpR Paediatric Cardiology, Great Ormond Street Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London

£435

Lunch, refreshments and Course Manual are included in the fee.

Registration

This course is now fully booked; if you wish to add your name to the waiting list please click on ADD ME TO THE WAITING LIST.

Contact us:

If you have any queries regarding this course please contact:

ICH Events

UCL Institute of Child Health

30 Guilford Street

London WC1N 1EH

United Kingdom

Tel. +44 207 905 2699/2675

E-mail: info@ichevents.com

RCPCH has approved this activity for up to 12 CPD credits, in accordance with the current RCPCH CPD Guidelines.