Oakstone Echocardiography A Comprehensive Review 2016
Format:33 videos + 2 pdfs, size: 13.8 GB
Course Audience: cardiologists and others interested in echocardiography
Overview:
Oakstone Clinical Update
Achieve better clinical outcomes with this expertly informed CME program that delivers the latest best practices for the effective use of echocardiography.
Use Echocardiography to Improve Clinical Outcomes
In this Oakstone comprehensive review, you’ll get expert information on the principles and current clinical practice of echocardiography to help you prepare for exams and earn CME credits from your home or office.
Used correctly, echocardiography is an important tool that can improve clinical outcomes in cardiac patients. Oakstone’s Echocardiography – A Comprehensive Review will help you:
- Select the right patients for echocardiography
- Understand clinical indications and quality assurance issues
- Recognize clinical uses, advantages, potential complications, and limitations of new available modalities
- Know the techniques needed to evaluate various diseases and disorders
- Summarize the characteristic findings of diseases of the myocardium
- Discuss the role of echocardiography in the intraoperative, critical care, and emergency department settings
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to:
- Discuss image acquisition and Doppler analysis in echocardiography
- Explain the clinical indications and quality assurance issues of echocardiography
- Recognize the limitations and potential artifacts of an echocardiogram
- Describe the techniques needed to evaluate mitral valve disease
- Summarize the characteristic findings of diseases of the myocardium
- Explain the advantages of point-of-care handheld echocardiography
- Appraise the clinical uses and potential complications of stress, exercise, transesophageal, and contrast echocardiography
- Describe the principles and applications of three-dimensional echocardiography
- Discuss the role of echocardiography in the intraoperative, critical care, and emergency department settings
Intended Audience
This educational activity was designed for cardiologists and others interested in echocardiography.
Date Of Original Release: August 1, 2016Estimated Time To Complete: 28.25 hours
01. Image Acquisition and Doppler Analysis Jan D’hooge, MD (Video MP4 Format)
02. The Echo Exam Maja Cikes, MD (Video MP4 Format)03. Clinical Indications and Quality Assurance Rory B. Weiner, MD (Video MP4 Format)04. Ventricular Systolic Function Scott D. Solomon, MD, and Maja Cikes, MD (Video MP4 Format)05. Ventricular Diastolic Filling and Function Gerard P. Aurigemma, MD (Video MP4 Format)06. Hemodynamics in Echocardiography Maja Cikes, MD (Video MP4 Format)07. Coronary Artery Disease Justina C. Wu, MD (Video MP4 Format)08. Aortic Stenosis Amil Shah, MD (Video MP4 Format)09. Aortic Regurgitation Hector Michelena, MD (Video MP4 Format)10. Mitral Stenosis Rebecca T. Hahn, MD (Video MP4 Format)11. Mitral Regurgitation Maurice E. Sarano, MD (Video MP4 Format)12. Prosthetic Valves Linda D. Gillam, MD, MPH (Video MP4 Format)13. Disease of the Myocardium Maja Cikes, MD (Video MP4 Format)14. The Heart in Hypertension Susan Cheng, MD (Video MP4 Format)15. The Evaluation of Right Heart in Health and Disease Judy Mangion, MD (Video MP4 Format)16. Pulmonary Embolism Scott D. Solomon, MD (Video MP4 Format)17. Pericardial Disease Christopher Appleton, MD (Video MP4 Format)18. Congenital Heart Disease Keri Shafer, MD (Video MP4 Format)19. Cardiac Masses Justina C. Wu, MD (Video MP4 Format)20. Diseases of the Aorta Eric M. Isselbacher, MD (Video MP4 Format)21. Endocarditis Pravin Patil, MD (Video MP4 Format)22. Heart Failure Eric J. Velazquez, MD (Video MP4 Format)23. Heart Disease Caused by Other Organ Systems (Renal, Endocrine, Obesity, Rheumatologic) Susan Cheng, MD (Video MP4 Format)24. Stress Echocardiography Patricia A. Pellikka, MD (Video MP4 Format)25. Transesophageal Echocardiography Farouk Mookadam, MD (Video MP4 Format)26. Contrast Echocardiography Jonathan R. Lindner, MD (Video MP4 Format)27. Three-Dimensional Echocardiography Roberto M. Lang, MD (Video MP4 Format)28. Handheld Echocardiography Faraz Pathan, MD (Video MP4 Format)29. Tissue Doppler and Strain Imaging Theodore P. Abraham, MD (Video MP4 Format)30. Deformation Imaging Thor Edvardsen, MD (Video MP4 Format)31. Intraoperative Echocardiography Douglas C. Shook, MD (Video MP4 Format)32. Interventional Echocardiography Alexandra Gon‡alves, MD, PhD (Video MP4 Format)33. Critical Care and Emergency Department Echocardiography Elke Platz, MD (Video MP4 Format)Questions (PDF Format)Syllabus (PDF Format)