21 - 23 November 2011

 

Fee for 3 day course £450

(Limited to 20 participants)

Course Director

Dr Nick Fletcher MBBS FRCA

Monday 21st November

09.00 - 09.30

Welcome and Introduction

Dr Nick Fletcher

09.30 - 10.00

Essential Physics and the Machine Interface

Mr Graham Leech

10.00 - 10.30

Image Acquisition

Dr Nick Fletcher

10.30 - 11.00

Break

11.00 - 12.30

Wetlab (with beef heart dissection and computer modeling)

Dr Alex Dewhurst

Dr Hanif Meeran

12.30 - 13.00

Lunch

 

13.00 - 17.00

Practical Workshop Sessions

Faculty

Tuesday 22nd November

09.00 - 10.30

Left Ventricle, Right Ventricle, Valves

Dr Paul Quinton

Dr Agniezka Crerrar-Gilbert

Dr Mark Edsell

10.30 - 11.00

Break

11.00 - 11.30

TTE and TOE. Indications, imaging correlations

Dr Raj Sharma

11.30 - 12.00

Quantification

Dr Frank Schroeder

12.00 - 12.30

Reporting

Dr Stephanie Bruemmer-Smith

12.30 - 13.30

Lunch

 

13.30 - 17.00

Practical Workshop Sessions

Faculty

Wednesday 23rd November

09.00 - 09.30

Goal Directed TOE

Dr Susanna Price

09.30 - 10.00

Haemodynamics

Dr Dominic Spray

10.00 - 10.30

International Perspective

Dr Andy Rhodes

10.30 - 11.00

Break

11.00 - 12.30

Case Presentations and Discussion

Faculty

12.30 - 13.30

Lunch

 

13.30 - 14.00

Course based MCQ test

14.00 - 17.00

Workshop and assessment

Faculty

Practical Workshop Sessions (limited to 5 in each group)

  1. TOE live case in ICU
  2. TOE simulator sessions with CAE and Heartworks
  3. Knobs and Probes – machine piloting and optimisation

The Course is held in the Cardiothoracic Department, Atkinson Morley Wing, St George’s Hospital, London. Read More >>