State-of-the-Art Echocardiography Course: Enhance Your Clinical Decision Making

This comprehensive course, featuring 49 expert presentations from Echo Hawaii and State-of-the-Art Echocardiography, will elevate your echocardiographic skills and confidence in clinical decision making. The course includes board-style questions for a majority of the presentations, allowing you to assess your knowledge and applied understanding.

Learning Objectives:

• Integrate echocardiographic information into clinical decision making for optimal patient care.
• Assess ventricular and valvular function using Doppler hemodynamics and advanced techniques.
• Describe Doppler assessment of diastolic function and dysfunction, and its implications for patient management.
• Explain new advances in the echocardiographic assessment of left and right ventricular function, including strain and 3D imaging.
• Integrate echocardiographic assessment of cardiomyopathies and systemic diseases into patient management strategies.
• Define clinical uses of TEE and 3D echocardiography, and their applications in complex valvular heart disease.
• Recognize how echocardiography is used to help manage patients with ischemic heart disease, and the role of echo contrast in the echo laboratory.

State-of-the-Art Echocardiography Lectures:

• Achieving AI-driven Insights in Echocardiography – S. Lester
• Quantitation of Ventricular Function – R. Lang
• Contrast Echocardiography: Impact on Diagnosis and Outcome – J. Oh
• Stress Echocardiography is Still Alive – W. Zoghbi
• Cases to Illustrate When Aortic Stenosis Gradient and Area Do Not Match – M. Saric
• What Should A Successful TAVR Look Like – R. Jain
• Degenerated Bio Prosthesis, Valve-in-Valve – N. Faza
• Mitral Regurgitation, Etiology and Quantification – W. Zoghbi
• Mitra Clip Measurements – N. Faza
• Pathologies of Mitral Valve – S. Mankad
• Pathologies of Tricuspid Valve – S. Mankad
• Tricuspid Valve Repair: The New Frontier – N. Faza
• LAA Occluder Device, Measurement – M. Saric
• Measuring Normal Function of Prosthetic Valves – W. Zoghbi
• Aortic Regurgitation Illustrative Cases – M. Malahfji
• Native and Prosthetic Valve Endocarditis – M. Saric
• Learn Clinical Diastology With Cases – J. Oh
• Amyloid and Constriction – J. Oh
• Stress Cardiomyopathy – M. Malahfji
• Systemic Illness and The Heart – S. Lester
• Pulmonary Hypertension: Optimal Evaluation – M. Mukherjee
• RV Strain: Cases to Illustrate How – S. Lester
• Clinical Examples of Utility Of GLS – S. Mankad
• Utility of LA Strain: Case Examples – M. Mukherjee
• Cardio Oncology: Case Examples – Normal and Abnormal LVAD Cases – M. Christensen
• Pulmonary Embolism and RV Strain – M. Mukherjee

ECHO HAWAII Lectures:

• Physiology of Diastole: What are We Trying to Measure? – G. Scalia
• Physiology of Systole: What are We Really Trying to Measure? – J. Lindner
• Intro to Strain Imaging: How does GLS add to EF? – S. De
• A Primer on Adult Congenital Echoes – A. De Freitas
• Assessing the RV – Role of Strain and 3D – M. Saric
• Echo in Beside Care: COVID and Beyond – S. McCartney
• Strain in the Assessment of Cardiomyopathies – J. Oh
• The Future of Echo: AI and Machine Learning – J. Thomas
• Chest Pain in the ER: Which Test? – J. Lindner
• Complications of MI: Echo has the Answer – S. McCartney
• The Future of Echo: Advanced Applications of Contrast – J. Lindner
• Strategies to Make Your Lab Excellent – M. Jankowski
• Assessment of Atrial Function: What is the Role of Strain? – G. Scalia
• Top 5 Situations Where I Find Strain is Helpful – V. Rigolin
• Septal Defects You Don’t Want to Close – A. de Freitas
• Quantification of Stenosis: Avoid These Pitfalls – W. Armstrong
• Starting an Interventional Echo Program: Training, Technique, & Economics – S. Little
• 3D Assessment of the Cardiac Valves – G. Scalia
• Interventions for MR in Heart Failure – G. Scalia
• MitraClip: Who is it for? How is it Guided? – M. Saric
• The Future of Echo: The Brave New World – S. Little
• Eisenmenger’s Echo in the Middle of the Night – A. de Freitas
• A Systematic Approach to Multi-Valve Disease – J. Thomas
• Exercise Echo and Strain to Time Intervention in Valvular Heart Disease – V. Rigolin
• Improving Source of Embolus Exams: The Science of Saline Contrast – W. Armstrong
• TEE in Emergent Situations – S. McCartney
• Athlete’s Heart: Separating Abnormal from Supraphysiologic – L. Gillam
• Use of Echo in Pulmonary Hypertension – G. Scalia