020 ASCeXAM/ReASCE Review Course

After much consideration, the decision has been made to transition the live 2020 ASCeXAM/ReASCE Review Course to be offered online as a Virtual Experience.

This course will be available starting on Saturday, May 9 and will offer access to recordings and PDF slides of all scheduled presentations, including physics. This is not a live streamed event.

There will be a live Q&A webinar on Saturday, August 22 and Sunday, August 23, from 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Time, where faculty will answer questions from registrants. Questions can be submitted in advance using a form that will be emailed to all registrants when the recordings are available. Faculty will also answer questions submitted live during the event. The live Q&A sessions will be recorded and available to registrants in the virtual library that you will have access to for three years.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this course, participants should be better able to:

Explain the essential physical principles of cardiac ultrasound.
Recognize common ultrasound artifacts and their genesis.
Estimate systolic function using standard M-mode and 2D echocardiography, as well as newer modalities such as strain imaging and 3D echocardiography.
Identify and quantitate valvular heart disease severity.
Describe the application of Doppler in the assessment of hemodynamics and diastolic function.
Perform clinically relevant calculations of valve areas and intracardiac pressures.
Explain proven techniques for interpreting stress echocardiographic examinations.
Differentiate features of cardiac tamponade, constrictive pericarditis and restrictive cardiomyopathy.
List appropriate applications of echocardiography.
Recognize newer applications of echocardiography such as myocardial contrast.
Topics And Speakers:

Aortic Regurgitation, Aortic Prosthesis, Cardiac Masses, Myocardial Infarction, and Interventional Echocardiography

Cardiac Masses
Complications of Myocardial Infarction
Evaluation of Aortic Prosthesis
Primer of Interventional Echocardiography
Quantitation of Aortic Regurgitation
Contrast, Congenital Heart Disease

Different Variants of Aortic Stenosis
Echocardiographic Evaluation of Mitral Valve Prostheses
Echocardiography in Systemic Disease
How to Assess Aortic Stenosis New Guidelines 1
How to Assess Aortic Stenosis New Guidelines
Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
Which Formulas Should I Know For the Exam
Board Review Questions Aortic Stenosis, Mankad
Board Review Questions Aortic Stenosis, Rigolin
Board Review Questions Mitral Valve Prostheses, Lester
Board Review Questions Systemic Disease, Mankad
Physics, Knobology, Artifacts, Right Ventricular Function

Artifacts Theory and Illustrative Examples
Basic Ultrasound Physics
Concepts of Imaging and Knobology
Evaluation of the Right Ventricle
Fundamentals in Doppler Physics
More formulas I Need to Know for the Exam
Tricuspid and Pulmonary Valve Disease New Guidelines
Board Review Questions Artifacts, Keane
Board Review Questions Doppler Physics, Zagzebski
Board Review Questions ImagingKnobology, Patil
Board Review Questions Right Ventricle, Rigolin
Board Review Questions TricuspidPulmonary Valve Disease, Addetia
Board Review Questions Ultrasound Physics, Zagzebski
Spectral Doppler, Deformation, Stress Echo, Mitral Stenosis, Mitral Valve Disease

Deformation Imaging
Degenerative Mitral Valve Disease
Functional Mitral Valve Disease
Mitral Stenosis
Quantification of Mitral Regurgitation New Guidelines
Spectral Doppler and M-Mode Echo Cases
Stress Echocardiography Theoretical and Practical Considerations