Location: Hong Kong

Date: 21 – 22 November 2024

Fee*: AUD1,700 (early bird) (AUD2,000 after 20 October 2024)

Practical Intermediate Echocardiography for Critical Care

PIE is a new 2-day intermediate level transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) course targeting at more experienced or advanced practitioners. This course is particularly useful to:

• Practitioners who are already performing basic level echo but would like to advance their skills and apply Doppler echo in their clinical examinations.
• Practitioners who are already performing Doppler echo but want to perfect their Doppler skills or want to learn more on assessments using proper Doppler measurements.
• Practitioners who want to prepare for advanced critical care echocardiography qualifications (e.g. EDEC, DDU).

Our trainers are established international and local experts, such as supervisors for Advanced qualifications (e.g. EDEC, DDU), who have plenty of experience in teaching echocardiography.

This course differs from most other courses in that the hands-on sessions are very interactive, full of fun and challenges.  Candidates are requested to complete the tasks listed in the PIE Handout in the hands-on sessions.

If you are the type of person who is obsessed with What? When? and Why? instead of just How?, then this is THE COURSE for you.

Course content
The course covers basic principles and clinical topics, with the emphasis on Doppler assessments. Topics* may include:

• Core topics:

• • Revisiting anatomy and views in TTE, and probe navigation
  • Principles of Doppler & tissue Doppler
  • Cardiac output measurements by Doppler
  • The Bernoulli’s equation and assumptions
  • Pulmonary artery pressure estimations
  • Tissue Doppler and applications
  • Mean pressure gradient, pressure half-time, and their applications in valvular assessments
  • The continuity equation and its applications
  • Assessing LV filling pressures
  • Different types of dynamic LV outflow obstructions
  • Pitfalls of Doppler measurements

• Clinical topics &/or Case studies may cover one or more of the following:

• • Shock
  • Shortness of breath
  • Sepsis
  • Chest pain
  • Pulmonary oedema
  • Pulmonary embolism and hypertension
  • Valvular assessments for critical care

Still wondering what we do in the course?  Why not take have a look at our PIE Handout to get an idea?

Prerequisites and Recommendation

In order to achieve the best learning outcome, we recommend you should have

1. attended a basic level (Level 1) critical care echocardiography course  (e.g. RACEplus), and
2. performed at least 30 TTEs since attended the basic level course, or are comfortable in obtaining the standard TTE views. (No proofs required)

Course accreditation

This course has been approved by the the Hong Kong Academy of Medicine, and is accredited by the Australasian College of Emergency Medicine,  College of Intensive Care Medicine (Australia & NZ), HK College of Emergency Medicine and HK College of Anaesthesiologists for CPD/CME purpose.

Further information

Click here to download program and for further information.

*Important

1. All fees and payments are in Australian dollars (AUD).

Optional reading materials (Not included)

Oxford Textbook of Advanced Critical Care Echocardiography (Anthony McLean, Stephen Huang, and Andrew Hilton eds) (2020).  RRP £130 (~AUD240).

Upon requests previously, we negotiated with the seller to sell the book at AUD200 (~20% off the RRP) to PIE participants.  We will STOP selling the book from 10 October 2024 to make sure the books arrive in time for the workshop.  Please include the book in your oder if you are interested, the number of copies available are limited.   The book will be sent out in one batch after 10 October 2024 and will be handed out on the first day of workshop.

Sponsor

This course is sponsored by Philips Health System (Hong Kong & Macau)