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Cardiology IV - Advanced Echocardiography, Spain, 24 - 28 October 2011

Course Master: Dr. Gerhard Wess, DACVIM, DECVIM-CA (DE)
Co-lecturers: Prof. Dr. Karsten Schober, DECVIM-CA (USA); Dr. Markus Killich DACVIM (DE);


PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

Monday, 24 October 2011

Echocardiography – General topics and Case examples

08:30–09:00 Welcome and registration
09:00–09:45 What’s new – update on recent clinical studies concerning diagnostic tests (G. Wess)
09:45–10:30 Practical session: interactive (difficult) ECG Cases (G. Wess)
10:30–11:00 Coffee Break
11:00–11:45 Interactive (difficult) case examples to apply pressure calculations using CW-Doppler (G. Wess)
11:45–12:30 PISA (proximal isovelocity surface area) to assess severity of valvular insufficiencies, regurgitation-volume and -fraction (G. Wess)
12:30–13:30 Lunch Break
13:30–17:00 Practicals: Hands on echocardiography (individual coaching) and Echo lab (All instructors)
Coffee available throughout the afternoon


Tuesday, 25 October 2011

Echocardiography – Doppler

09:00–09:45 What’s new – update on recent clinical studies concerning treatment options (G. Wess)
09:45–10:30 Diastolic function: Principles and echocardiographic correlates of relaxation, compliance, volume, and filling pressure (K. Schober)
10:30–11:00 Coffee Break
11:00–11:45 Tissue Doppler Imaging basics. Tissue velocity, Strain, Strain Rate: technical aspects, different methods, pitfalls (G. Wess)
11:45–12:45 Doppler Echocardiography: value of Doppler to predict congestive heart failure and to assess HCM stag (K. Schober)
12:45–13:30 Lunch Break
13:30–17:00 Practicals: Hands on echocardiography (individual coaching) and Echo lab (All instructors)
Coffee available throughout the afternoon


Wednesday, 26 October 2011

Echocardiography – Systolic function

09:00–09:45 Quantitative echocardiography: calculation of stroke volume and cardiac output (G. Wess)
09:45–10:30 Utilizing echocardiography to guide therapy – case examples (K. Schober)
10:30–11:00 Coffee Break
11:00–11:45 Tissue Doppler imaging to assess systolic function – clinical applications (G. Wess)
11:45–12:30 Advanced echocardiographic assessment of pulmonary hypertension and pulmonary fibrosis treatment (K. Schober)
12:30–13:30 Lunch Break
13:30–17:00 Practicals: Hands on echocardiography (individual coaching) and Echo lab (All instructors)
Coffee available throughout the afternoon


Thursday, 27 October 2011

Congenital heart disease – Echo diagnosis, hemodynamics, and treatment

09:00–09:45 Complex congenital malformations... (K. Schober)
09:45–10:30 Practicals: Cardiac Jeopardy – Congenital heart disease (K. Schober)
10:30–11:00 Coffee Break
11:00–11:45 Practicals – interactive solving of cool Echo cases – where a diagnosis is not so easy (G. Wess)
11:45–12:30 Practicals – interactive solving of cool ECG cases (G. Wess)
12:30–13:30 Lunch Break
13:30–17:00 Practicals: Hands on echocardiography (individual coaching) and Echo lab (All instructors)
Coffee available throughout the afternoon


Friday, 28 October 2011

Acquired heart disease – From diagnosis to treatment

09:00 – 09:45 Practicals: Cool ECG cases – where a diagnosis is not so easy... (G. Wess)
09:45 – 10:30 Myocarditis and Endocarditis: Echo diagnosis (G. Wess)
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:45 Echocardiographic Assessment of Left Ventricular and Mitral Valve Geometry in Cats with Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (K. Schober)
11:45 – 12:45 Practicals: Hands on echocardiography (individual coaching) and Echo lab (All instructors)
12:45 – 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30 – 15:30 Practicals: Hands on echocardiography (individual coaching) and Echo lab (All instructors)
15:30 – 16:00 Wrap up of the course (All instructors, G. Wess),
Coffee available throughout the afternoon

Program: Cardiology IV 2011 - subject to change

ATF credit hours (Akademie für Tierärtzliche Fortbildung, Germany): 30
(for Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Luxembourg)
 
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