Echo Revolution: Adult Echocardiography for Physicians and Sonographers

Key Topics

• Doppler principles and hemodynamics to the systematic assessment of native and prosthetic valves, and appreciate the surgical implication of these findings.
• appropriate methods of the quantitation of systolic function and practical assessment of diastolic function, including detection of constriction and assessment of cardiomyopathies
• stress echocardiographic findings in ischemic heart disease and understand echocardiographic detection of mechanical complications of myocardial infarction.
• characteristic echocardiographic features of cardiac tumors and masses and how they can be differentiated from artifacts.
• the potential and current utility of strain imaging and 3D echocardiography.
• patients prior to, during, and following various structural heart disease procedures such as TAVR, mitral clip, and left atrial appendage closure.
• the ability to perform a 3D acquisition and measurement of biventricular size and function.