Vascular Imaging Educators Workshop (VIEW): Enhance Your Ultrasound Skills

The Society of Vascular Ultrasound (SVU) is proud to present the 45th Annual Conference, featuring the Vascular Imaging Educators Workshop (VIEW). This comprehensive educational experience is designed to benefit all professionals involved in the diagnosis and treatment of vascular disease.

Session 1: Lower Extremity Arterial

• History and Physical: Important Role in Vascular Ultrasound – Joshua Lee, BS, RVT, FSVU
• Going Beyond the Protocol: Answering the Clinical Question – George Berdejo, BA, RVT, FSVU
• Lower Extremity Arterial: A Piece of Artwork and Pride – Kayla Wieseckel, MHSc, RVT, RVS, RPhS
• CT, MR, or Angio: There is No Gold Standard and That’s a Good Thing – Laurence Needleman, MD, FSVU
• Peripheral Intervention – Pre and Post Duplex Ultrasound – David Dawson, MD, RVT, RPVI, FSVU

Session 2: Advanced Arterial Duplex in the Setting of Chronic Limb-Threatening Ischemia (CLTI)

Keynote Address: Vascular Ultrasound in the Contemporary Care of Chronic Limb-Threatening Ischemia – Miguel Montero-Baker, MD

• Detailed Preoperative Arterial Mapping in CLTI – Leni Karr, BA, RVT
• Update on Pedal Acceleration Time – Jill Sommerset, BS, RVT
• It Takes a Village: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Limb Salvage – Brian Lepow, DPM
• Emerging Technologies in the CLTI and Role of the Vascular Technologist – Miguel Montero-Baker, MD
• Pedal Artery Duplex Imaging – Jill Sommerset, BS, RVT

Session 3: Joint SVS/SVU Session: The Importance of the Physician-Vascular Technologist Relationship

• Carotid Duplex vs CTA: How Hemodynamics Augments Imaging – Zierler & Kupinski
• Complex Aortic Procedures: The Latest Approaches – Escobar & Warren
• The Importance of the Physician-Vascular Technologist Relationship – Brian Sapp, RVT, RPhS
• Pelvic Venous Disorders: How US Findings Can Guide Treatment Plans – Karem Harth, MD, MHS, RPVI

Session 4: Cerebrovascular

• Is it Time to Implement the New Carotid Criteria? – R. Eugene Zierler, MD, RPVI, FSVU
• Device Driven Hemodynamics: Effects on Carotid Duplex – Sandra Yesenko, DHSc, RVT, RDMS, FSVU
• The Importance of Vertebral Artery Assessment – Sarah Brisson, BS, RVT
• Extracranial Hints to Intracranial Pathology – Sarah Brisson, BS, RVT

Session 5: Transcranial Doppler

• TCD “Speed Dating” – Karr & Barnhart
• Intracranial Collateral Review – Krislynn Barnhart, RVT

Session 6: Abdominal Imaging

• The Aorta: More Than AAA’s – Jason Roberts, DHSc, RVT
• Surgical Planning and Treatment Options for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms – Sean Roddy, MD
• Evaluating EVAR for Endoleaks Utilizing Standard Duplex – Kayla Wieseckel, MHSc, RVT, RVS, RPhS
• Renal Artery Evaluation: Why it is Still Important – Muhammad Hasan, MBBCh, RPVI, RVT
• When to Intervene on an Endoleak – John Carson, MD, RPVI, FACS

Session 7: Hemodialysis Access

• Revisiting Pre-Dialysis Mapping – Ann Marie Kupinski, PhD, RVT, FSVU
• Speaking the Same Language: Hemodialysis Access Terminology/Nomenclature – Tony Smet, BS, RVT, RDMS
• Clues from the Clinical Presentation and Notes From Dialysis Centers – Melissa Warren, MHSc, RVT, RVS
• Hemodialysis Volumetric Flow Rate – Tony Smet, BS, RVT, RDMS
• Endovascular AVF: Successes and Failures – Jason Roberts, DHSc, RVT

Session 8: Case Presentations

• Nonanastomotic Pseudoaneurysm of Axillobifemoral Bypass Graft – Traci Fox, EdD, RT(R), RDMS, RVT
• Left Internal Carotid Artery Dissection With Aneurysm During Carotid Duplex in Patient With Habitual Chiropractic Manipulations – MaryBeth Georges, BS, RVT
• Mid-Aortic Syndrome – Carrie Hemeyer, RVT, RDMS
• Arterial Duplex Studies of Imaging Amplatzer Plugs II as Foreign Bodies in the Right Arm and Left Leg – Cassey Noh, BS, RDMS, RVT
• A TIPIC Ultrasonographic B-Mode Imaging of the Common Carotid Artery Bifurcation – Sergio Salles-Cunha, PhD, RVT, FSVU
• Late Embolization of an Amplatzer Vascular Plug: A Very Rare Complication Following Mitral Paravalvular Leak Repair – Brittany Scott, BS, RVT
• Rare Case of Internal Jugular Vein Invasion by Thyroid Carcinoma – William Wilson, RVT
• Benefits of Ultrasound-Guided Cannulation for Dialysis Vascular Access – YuHeng Zhou, MMEDUS, RVT

Session 9: Venous

• The Do’s and Don’ts of Venous Documentation – Marresa Houle, BS, RVT
• Why is This Limb Swollen: Lymphedema vs Lipedema… or Something Else? – Anahita Dua, MD, MS, MBA
• Masquerading as Venous Disease – Brian Sapp, RVT, RPhS

Session 10: Joint SVU/American Vein and Lymphatic Society Session

• Ultrasound Evaluation of Pelvic Venous Disorders – Sara Skjonsberg, RVT, RPhS
• Pelvic Escape Points – Donna Kelly, RVT, RDMS, RPhS
• Scanning With Super Panel – Aleata Rigsby, BS, RVT, RPhS

Session 11: Practice Enhancement

• Updates on Coding and Reimbursement – Sean Roddy, MD
• Accreditation- What is New – Joseph Hughes, MBA, RVT, RVS, FSVU
• Superior Mesenteric Artery Syndrome – Scott Manchester, RVT
• Stent Criteria Everywhere – Anahita Dua, MD, MS, MBA
• The Bond Between the Ultrasound Tech and Vascular Surgeon – Dua & Manchester

Session 12: Curveballs and Controversies in Vascular Ultrasound

• Continued Role for Physiologic Testing? – Hughes & Carson
• Advanced Vascular Sonography: Yes or No – Laurence Needleman, MD, FSVU

Session 13: SVU Foundation Grant Winners

• Hemodynamics and Carotid Plaque Progression: Insight Into the Wall Shear Rate and Energy Loss Coefficient Using Doppler Ultrasound – Guillaume Goudot, MD, PhD, FESC
• Transcranial Doppler (TCD) Assessment of Cerebral Vasomotor Reactivity (CVR) Using CO2 Stimulus as an Initial Measure of Neurological Impact Among Post-COVID-19 Neurological Syndrome (PCNS) – Musharaf Mohiuddin, MBBS, MPH, MHS
• Using 3D Ultrasound to Accurately Measure Aortic Sac Volume – Lars Stangenberg, MD, PhD

Session 14: Ergonomics and MALS Workshops

• Ultrasound Ergonomics: Safety Within Reach – Jason Wheeler, MD, MSCR, RPVI, CCME
• Medial Arcuate Ligament Syndrome (MALS) – MaryBeth Georges, BS, RVT

Release date: February 15, 2023. Expiration date: February 14, 2026.