2025 Singapore PIE
Event Date:
11 August 2025
Event Location:
Tan Tock Seng Hospital
Location: Singapore
Date: 11-12 August 2025
Fee:
AUD1,300 (working in Singapore)1
2Participants NOT working in Singapore and from
- high income countries AUD2,000
- upper middle income countries AUD700
- lower middle to low income countries AUD400
1Partially sponsored by Tan Tock Seng Hospital and APICS 2025.
2Places are limited. Definitions of income status defined by The World Bank.
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).
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 workbook in the hands-on sessions.
If you are the type of person always ask What? When? and Why? instead of just How?, then this course is tailor-made for you.
Course content
The course covers basic principles and clinical topics, with the emphasis on Doppler assessments. Topics* may include:
• Core topics:
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- 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 (to be decided by local organisers):
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- 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?
Prerequisites and Recommendation
In order to achieve the best learning outcome, you should:
- have attended a basic level (Level 1) critical care echocardiography course (e.g. RACEplus), and
- have performed at least 30 TTEs since attended the basic level course.
(Note: you do not need to show proof)
Course accreditation
This course has been approved/accredited by various Colleges and Societies, including College of Intensive Care Medicine (Australia & NZ), Australasian College of Emergency Medicine*, Hong Kong Academy of Medicine, HK College of Emergency Medicine and HK College of Anaesthesiologists for CPD/CME purpose.
*The Practical Intermediate Echocardiography (PIE) workshop is approved for 14 ACEM CPD hours.
Further information
Click here to download program and for further information.
Cost
- Please note that this course is intended for doctors working in Singapore, and only a limited number of places are available for doctors working outside Singapore.
- For those who are working in Singapore, TTSH is sponsoring part of the cost.
- All fees and payments are in Australian dollars (AUD).
Reading materials (Not included)
Oxford Textbook of Advanced Critical Care Echocardiography (Anthony McLean, Stephen Huang, and Andrew Hilton eds) (2020). RRP £130 (~AUD240).
Event Timelines
0900 Welcome and introduction
0915 Probe navigation in TTE views
0945 Hands-on warm-up: Probe navigation in TTE views
1030 Morning break
1050 Lectures:
Doppler principles
Cardiac output measurement
1145 Hands-on: Colour Doppler and CO measurements
1245 Lunch
1330 Lectures:
Pulmonary artery pressure estimation
Tissue Doppler principles
1415 Hands-on: PAP estimation and tissue Doppler
1515 Afternoon break
1530 Mean PG and pressure half-time
1600 Hands-on: mean PG and PHT
1645 Q & A
1700 Finish
0900 Pitfalls in haemodynamic measurements
0940 Hands-on:
Revisiting CO, PASP and tissue Doppler
1030 Morning break
1045 Continuity equation and applications
- aortic stenosis: effective orifice area
- regurgitation volume / fraction
- Septal defects: Qp:Qs
1115 Hands-on: Continuity equation
1215 Lunch
1300 Assessing LV filling pressures
1330 Hands-on: LV filling pressures
- E/A, e’, E/e’, TR velocity or PASP, LAV
1430 Dynamic outflow obstruction
1500 Afternoon break
1515 Fun with Doppler Quiz
1620 Case study from Sydney
1640 Q&A
1700 Finish
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Event FAQs
Course registration is not transferable, unless approved by the Event Secretary.
Cancellation by Registrant will attract the following administration fees (as % of total purchase fees) regardless of reasons: more than 8 weeks prior: 5%; 4 to 8 weeks prior: 20%; 2 to 4 weeks prior: 70%; less than 2 weeks prior: 80%; or no show: 100% (no refund).
The Organiser reserves the right to cancel or postpone the course due to natural disaster, pandemic, not enough interest in the course, or other unforeseeable circumstances. If a course is cancelled by the Organiser, full (100%) refund will be returned to the Registrant. If the course is postponed, the Registrant can either seek a full refund or attend the course on the new date(s). Please note that while we will try our best to announce any cancellation or postponement at least 20 days prior to the original delivery date, this cannot be guaranteed in unforeseen circumstances.
No, you do not need to show proof.
No, you do not need to (optiional). If you want to have only one book that covers Doppler and haemodynamics principles, and cardiac mechanics for echocardiography, you may find this book suits you. This book is great for reviewing concepts both before and after the workshop.