Basic to Advanced Echocardiography | Island Ultrasound

This program will be presented live in-person in Hilton Head Island, SC and also is available via livestream Eastern Daylight Time.

This will be offered as a live, in-person conference at the Hilton Head Marriott in Hilton Head Island, SC and will also be offered by livestream format. When registering, you will be required to choose in-person or livestream. 

Livestream participation is to be viewed during the livestreaming hours posted for the course. This course is not intended, nor approved, as an on-demand learning activity. The recorded lectures take approximately 3-4 weeks to be posted on the course dashboard and ABIM MOC credit must be claimed within 30 days of the livestream course. 

LOCATION
Hilton Head Marriott
1 Hotel Circle
Hilton Head Island, SC 29928

COURSE OVERVIEW
The course will begin with a discussion of echocardiographic assessment of left and right ventricular function, including presentations on diastolic function and strain imaging for assessing myocardial function. We will then discuss a broad range of disease states for which echocardiography is useful, including ischemic heart disease, valvular heart disease, pericardial disease, and cardiomyopathies. The presentations will include basic concepts as well as advanced techniques including 3-D imaging and strain imaging. Throughout the course many cases will be presented. 

Unique Features:

• Faculty members are clinical sonographers and echocardiologists
• Easy access to faculty members during the entire conference
• Afternoon on pediatric/adult congenital echocardiography
• Presentations involving multimodality imaging

LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Upon conclusion of this program, participants should be able to:

• Apply Doppler principles and hemodynamics to the assessment of valvular heart disease, including systematic assessment of prosthetic valves
• Use 2-D, Doppler and strain methods to assess myocardial function
• Illustrate the appropriate use of echo Doppler in myocardial and pericardial disease
• Describe the utility of echocardiography, including 3-D transesophageal echocardiography, for the interventional practice
• Integrate echocardiography into the diagnosis and management of heart failure
• Recognize clinical applications of stress echocardiography

INTENDED AUDIENCE
This course is intended for adult cardiologists, cardiology fellows, surgeons, anesthesiologists, and cardiac sonographers who have basic experience and knowledge of echocardiography. This course is designed to further advance their experience in clinical application of echocardiography.