COURSE DESCRIPTION
Mayo Echocardiography Review Course will provide the cardiologist,
echocardiographer, cardiology fellow, and cardiac sonographer with an overview of
all aspects of cardiovascular ultrasound with a practical and clinical disease
orientated focus. Well-known experts in each field will give in-depth didactic
lectures on state-of-the-art subjects in adult echocardiography pertaining particularly
to integration of echocardiographic data into clinical practice. Each lecture will be
followed by or will include multiple choice type questions and answer sessions
facilitated by an instantaneous electronic audience response sytsem. Although this
course is designed as a comprehensive review of echocardiography, it will also
provide the cardiologist with an update on latest knowledge and advances in clinical
echocardiography.
The full practice of adult echocardiography will be reviewed,
ranging from understanding how basic ultrasound physics influences clinical imaging,
to the latest in quantitative assessment of ventricular and valvular function as well as
the clinical application of newer techniques such as strain and strain rate imaging.
Special clinical case based sessions will focus on specific diseases such as heart
failure, coronary artery disease, and valvular heart disease. Breakout sessions will
provide those attendees taking the ASE examination with a focused emphasis on the
ASE examination format, physics, MMode and congenital heart disease questions.
Those attendees wanting a clinical practice review of echocardiography can attend a
breakout session focused on clinical echocardiographic challenges in valvular and
coronary artery disease, TEE and new technologies.
Registration is limited to 150
attendees to ensure maximal faculty interaction and an intimate learning environment.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
Upon completion of the program, participants should be able to:
- Explain basic physical principles of ultrasound and instrumentation.
- Correlate cardiac gross pathology with echocardiographic images.
- Evaluate cardiac chamber size, left ventricular systolic and diastolic function and right ventricular systolic function.
- Interpret basic M Mode tracings.
- Analyze and interpret echocardiographic derived hemodynamic data.
- Interpret transesophageal images and distinguish attributes and limitations
versus transthoracic echocardiography.
- Evaluate acute and chronic ischemic heart disease using standard and stress
echocardiography.
- Diagnose and quantify etiology and severity of native and prosthetic valvular
heart disease.
- Distinguish and differentiate causes of heart failure, cardiomyopathies and
pericardial disease.
- Diagnose and differentiate cardiac masses.
- Diagnose and distinguish diseases of the aorta.
- Identify echocardiographic features of systemic disease with associated cardiac
involvement.
- Interpret echocardiograms in patients with congenital heart disease.
- Integrate newer echocardiographic techniques (3D, tissue Doppler and contrast)
and other imaging modalities (CT/MRI/Nuclear) to complement / supplement standard echocardiography.
Attendance at this Mayo course does not indicate nor guarantee competence or
proficiency in the performance of any procedures which may be discussed or
taught in this course
INTENDED AUDIENCE
This course is intended for cardiologists, echocardiographers, cardiology fellows
and cardiac sonographers.
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