Perioperative and Critical Care Echocardiography - Basic Course
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Program Title |
On-site Sessionsa |
Simulation Exercises |
In-Practice Studies |
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Core Competencies |
Sessions 1 & 2 |
50 |
50 |
aAll on-site sessions will be held at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE.
Program curriculum - Basic Course
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Session |
Day 1 |
Day 2 |
Day 3 |
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Session 1 |
Basic TTE exam Basic TEE exam Image optimization Basic physics principles Safety considerations (risks, indications, contraindications) Normal cardiac anatomy and imaging plane correlation |
Global ventricular systolic function Global ventricular diastolic function Regional ventricular systolic function and recognition of pathology |
Basic Recognition of Valve Anatomy Valve Regurgitation Valve Stenosis Endocarditis and acute valve pathology |
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Session 2 |
Basic hemodynamic assessments Rescue Examination |
Surface ultrasound for vascular access Pericardial and Pleural Disease Imagine |
Adult congenital heart disease Identification of intracardiac masses in non-cardiac surgery |
Perioperative and Critical Care Echocardiography Basic Course (Sessions 1 and 2)
The University of Nebraska Medical Center Department of Anesthesiology Perioperative and Critical Care Echocardiography Basic Echo program is designed to meet or exceed the basic clinical competence requirements developed by the National Board of Echocardiography Examination of Special Competence in Basic Perioperative Transesophageal Echocardiography (Basic PTeXAM) - (2009).
The Basic program involves attendance at two, 3-day sessions at the University of Nebraska Medical Center for a total of 6 days on-site over the course of one year or less. During these 3-day, on-site sessions, students will review their own previously completed echo examinations in class with a certified instructor. Students will have access to 50 online diagnostic perioperative echocardiography exercises. Students are encouraged to complete 50 of their own studies for review by a certified instructor. An electronic evaluation is submitted for each echo exam.
Echo studies are submitted to the University of Nebraska Medical Center's Perioperative Echocardiography faculty using an internet-based, remote software system. After completion of each diagnostic exercise, immediate feedback via the remote system is provided to the student. For studies performed on the student's own patients, the faculty reviews and assesses each study and makes it available online for the student to review.
At the completion of the Core Competencies Program physicians should be able to use TEE and TTE for indications within the customary practice of anesthesiology. Under appropriate supervision students will learn the proper TEE and TTE probe placement, operation of the ultrasound machine, how to perform both TTE and TEE examinations, and how to convey and document the results of the examination effectively.
