This course is specifically designed to prepare attendees taking the National Board of Echocardiography (NBE) certification examination. It has a focused emphasis on the NBE examination format, ultrasound physics, 2D and M-Mode, hemodynamics, valvular heart disease, ischemic heart disease, heart failure and cardiomyopathies, pericardial disease, congenital heart disease, and newer imaging techniques. The course will review all aspects of cardiovascular ultrasound with a practical and clinical disease orientated focus. Well-known experts and recognized educators in each field of echocardiography will give in-depth didactic lectures pertaining particularly to integration of echocardiographic data into clinical practice. Each lecture will be followed by multiple choice type question and answer sessions facilitated by an audience response system. Special evening sessions will include a hemodynamic workshop and an entertaining game show involving the entire audience that will review highlights of material covered in the course.

TOPICS/SPEAKERS

 

M‐Mode and 2‐D Echocardiography (Dimensions, Volume, and EF)

Transesophageal Echocardiography Including 3D Echocardiography

Doppler and Color Flow Imaging for Non-Invasive Hemodynamics

Contrast Echocardiography: What You Need to Know for the Boards

Evaluation of Diastolic Function: The Basics

Diastolic Dysfunction: Advanced Principles and Diastolic Stress Test

Physics in Practice: Illustrative Cases

Myocardial Velocity and Strain Imaging

Echocardiography in the Patient with Atrial Fibrillation

Aortic Valve Regurgitation

Aortic Valve Stenosis

Mitral Valve Stenosis

Mitral Valve Regurgitation

Tricuspid and Pulmonary Valve Diseases

Prosthetic Valve Assessment

Interventional Echocardiography

Intraoperative Echocardiography

Infective Endocarditis

Echo Assessment of the Aorta: Aortic Atherosclerosis, Aneurysms, and Acute Aortopathies

Congenital Aortopathies

Pericardial Diseases I: Tamponade and Constriction

Pericardial Diseases II: Constriction Mimics

Restrictive Cardiomyopathy and Cardiac Amyloidosis

Dilated Cardiomyopathy and Transplantation

Left Ventricular Devices and Cardiac Resynchronization

Pulmonary Hypertension, RV Function, and Pulmonary Embolism

Cardiac Masses

Coronary Artery Disease Including Mechanical Complications

Stress Echocardiography

Name the Systemic Disease

Doppler Hemodynamic Correlation

Advanced Echo Hemodynamic Cases

Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: Echocardiographic Diagnosis

Simple Congenital Heart Disease: ASD, VSD, Ebstein’s, PDA

Congenital Cases

NBE Exam Format and Overview

Hemodynamic Workshop

Interesting Cases