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
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.

