Pediatric Echocardiography Course
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- No matter how beginner you are, you will be astonished when you bring all the Echo views in the first time you handle the prob,then you will realise that Echo is not as difficult as you imagined !
Period of the course :
Until the candidate acquire the required skills.
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1
Lecture 1Clinically applied physics. Frequencies, wave lengthens, amplitude. what is sound wave? Range equation, Doppler shift equation. with clear and strong correlation between these concepts and general day to day life.
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2
Lecture 2
Echocardiography views with correlation to the cardiac anatomy and how the view is sliced and Aquiered.
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3
Lecture 3
heamodynamics: full understanding of Peak velocity, PPG, MPG, VTI, PHT. stroke volume, and full detailed explanation of the continuity equation to calculate the aortic valve area.
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4
Lecture 4
using heamodynamics to diagnose stenotic lesions and possible pitfalls that may render calculations inaccurate, as pitfalls related to the sonographer technique and pitfalls related to the patients various clinical conditions.
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5
Lecture 5
How Doppler equation is encoded to colour, and how this colour is interpreted.
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6
Lecture 6
Assessment of regurgitation lesions using trace method , venacontracta. Full step by step comprehensive explanation of the PISA method.
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7
Lecture 7
concept of M.mode. how it works , correlate between how m.mode work, pathology and the final trace.
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8
Lecture 8
Assessment of systolic function using M.mode, Simpsons method, Doppler , tissue Doppler.
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9
Lecture 9
Assessment of shunt lesions ASD, VSD, PDA, PAPVR, Partial ECD, Deroofed coronary sinus. Assessment includes color Doppler and 2D measures. Heamodynamic effect and pathophysiology is also discussed through a practical approach.
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10
Lecture 10
miscellaneous disease: Aortic diseases as bicusped aortic valve and dissection, pericardial effusion, pulmonary hypertension, IHD, Intra cardiac masses, prosthetic valves and diastolic dysfunction.
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11
Lecture 11
recent advances in echocardiography, artifacts : full understanding of side lobe artifacts, near field clutter and reverberations.
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12
Lecture 12
assessment of cyanotic heart diseases, how to provied a detailed spacial describtion of the cardiac structures by echo in correlation to anatomical abnormality in order to diagnose : L.TGA , D.TGA and how to differentiate between them based on clinical and echocardiographic basis.
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13
Lecture 13
DORV, Fallot and Truncus artrioses as a differential diagnosis via an innovative approach, Complete ECD.
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14
Lecture 14
Total Annomilus pulmonary venous return. Ebstiens annomaly , Hypoplastic left heart S . Single ventricle .
How to approach a pediatric / neonatal patient starting by concordance ending by diagnosis.
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15
Lecture 15
Hands on will be supplied accordingly after each session. including soft wear usage and image acquisition.
