This course was conceived at a time when there was no dedicated echocardiography courses run in South Africa. The aim of this course was to provide physicians and sonographers with the opportunity to improve their knowledge in echocardiography . A second unique aim was to provide practical training to participants on various echocardiographic techniques. Since its inception this course has grown in popularity and in 2013 was given official endorsement form the European cardiovascular imaging society. The current course is aimed at providing attendees with updates on current echocardiographic practice guidelines as well as a comprehensive introduction to three dimensional echocardiography.

Topics Covered
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01 Opening of New Horizons in Echocardiography 2019
02 HCM – State of the Art 2019
03 Using Echocardiography in the Diagnosis and Management of Heart Failure in 2019
04 Can you recognise these problems
05 Cardio Oncology in 2019 – Practical Pearls for the Imager
06 Radiation cases to remember
07 Challenging case-based quiz
08 Translating the ESC Guidelines into clinical practice
09 The Poet Trial – Implications for the imager
10 Challenging Cases – Read with the experts
11 Challenging Cases – Read with the experts
12 Imaging for Line Placement and Cardiac Catheterisation with hands on ultrasound training
13 Hemodynamic Basics, Mistakes to Avoid, Pearls to Remember
14 Is this severe AS
15 The Key Issues in the Work-up of Patients for TAVI
16 Chronic AR
17 Challenging Aortic Cases
18 Ischaemic MR
19 Challenging Cases of Degenerative MR
20 Mitral Stenosis
21 Getting the Evaluation of the Tricuspid Valve Evaluation Right in Mitral Valve Disease
22 Key Anatomy and Physiology of the Pericardium for the Imager
23 Identifying Pericardial Tamponade
24 Challenging Pericardial Cases
25 How to interpret echo data in atrial fibrillation
26 Complications of chronic pacing that require insightful echocardiography
27 Biventricular pacing - Evaluating key echocardiography parameters
28 Basic echocardiography evaluation of the patient on ECMO
29 ACS Rapid-fire case studies
30 Case Presentation
31 The case of an elderly 89-year-old with a complicated Stemi with comorbidity
32 Legal and ethics perspectives on case study
33 CLOSING REMARKS

Release Date : 12-14 July 2019