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Echocardiography for the Sonographer: Update on Echo in Valvular Heart Disease

Saturday, September 8

TimeTopic
7:00 a.m. Registration and Continental Breakfast
7:45 a.m. Welcome
7:50 a.m. Course Overview
Orientation to the Audience Response System
Course Directors
8:00 a.m. Doppler Hemodynamic Assessment: Principles, Formulae, and Calculations
Barry Karon, M.D.
8:30 a.m. Pathology of Aortic and Mitral Stenosis
William Edwards, M.D.
9:00 a.m. Cases in Aortic Stenosis: 2-D/Doppler Assessment and Quantitation of Severity
Sally Miller, R.D.C.S.
9:30 a.m. Cases in Mitral Stenosis: 2-D/Doppler Assessment and Quantitation of Severity
Steve Tucker, R.D.C.S.
10:00 a.m. Refreshment Break
10:15 a.m. Stress Echo for Valvular Stenosis (Including MS, Low-Output AS)
Jennifer Betz, R.D.C.S.
10:45 a.m. Pathology of Prosthetic Valve Dysfunction
William Edwards, M.D.
11:15 a.m. Cases in Prosthetic Valves: Assessment of Normal Prosthetic Function and Dysfunction
Merri Bremer, R.N., R.D.C.S.
11:45 a.m. Questions & Answers
12:00 p.m. Lunch
1:00 p.m. Echo Pathology of Mitral and Aortic Regurgitation
Ron Roth, R.D.C.S.
1:30 p.m. Mitral and Aortic Regurgitation: Semi-Quantitative Assessment by Doppler and Color Flow Imaging
Rekha Mankad, M.D.
2:00 p.m. Quantitative Assessment of Valvular Regurgitation by PISA and Continuity Methods
Sally Miller, R.D.C.S.
2:30 p.m. Refreshment Break
2:50 p.m. Cases in Valvular Regurgitation
Jennifer Betz, R.D.C.S. and Rekha Mankad, M.D.
3:20 p.m. Questions & Answers
3:30 p.m. Echo Approach to Abnormal Heart Sounds
Barry Karon, M.D. and Suzette Hoehn, R.N.
4:00 p.m. Adjourn