Principal Course Master:
Prof. Dr. Gerhard Wess, DACVIM, DECVIM-CA (DE)
Course Master:
Prof. Dr. Karsten Schober, DECVIM-CA (USA)
Instructors:
Dr. Sabine Hertzsch (DE)
Dr. Ralph Wendt (DE)
Dr. Marin Torti (IT)
COVID-19 ALERT
Please note that since this course contains practical sessions, it is mandatory to provide a negative PCR (Covid-19) test result on the first day of the course.
– The test must not be older than 5 days prior to the begining of the course
– If you wish to order the test via ESAVS, please make sure that you place your order no later than 2 weeks prior to the start date of the course. The tests can be ordered via a special link, which our office will send to enrolled participants in a separate e-mail. Please check your spam folder or write to registration@esavs.eu, if you do not hear from us 1 month prior to the course date.
– The test must not be older than 5 days prior to the begining of the course
– If you wish to order the test via ESAVS, please make sure that you place your order no later than 2 weeks prior to the start date of the course. The tests can be ordered via a special link, which our office will send to enrolled participants in a separate e-mail. Please check your spam folder or write to registration@esavs.eu, if you do not hear from us 1 month prior to the course date.
Please note
This course is NOT open to newcomers!
Overview
This veterinary course in cardiology is designed to give practitioners an advanced understanding of small animal echocardiography.
Topics
Echocardiography – general topics and case examples of this veterinary course in cardiology:
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- Update on recent clinical studies concerning diagnostic tests
- Interactive (difficult) ECG Cases
- Interactive (difficult) case examples to apply pressure calculations using CW-Doppler
- PISA (proximal isovelocity surface area) to assess severity of valvular insufficiencies, regurgitation-volume and –fraction
- Hands on echocardiography (individual coaching) and Echo lab
Echocardiography – Doppler
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- Update on recent clinical studies concerning treatment options
- Diastolic function: Principles and echocardiographic correlates of relaxation, compliance, volume, and filling pressure
- Tissue Doppler Imaging basics. Tissue velocity, Strain, Strain Rate: technical aspects, different methods, pitfalls
- Doppler Echocardiography: value of Doppler to predict congestive heart failure and to assess HCM stag
- Hands on echocardiography (individual coaching) and Echo lab
Echocardiography – Systolic function
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- Quantitative echocardiography: calculation of stroke volume and cardiac output
- Utilizing echocardiography to guide therapy – case examples
- Tissue Doppler imaging to assess systolic function – clinical applications
- Advanced echocardiographic assessment of pulmonary hypertension and pulmonary fibrosis treatment
- Hands on echocardiography (individual coaching) and Echo lab
Congenital heart disease: Echo diagnosis, hemodynamics, and treatment
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- Complex congenital malformations…
- Cardiac Jeopardy – Congenital heart disease
- Interactive solving of cool Echo cases – where a diagnosis is not so easy
- Hands on echocardiography (individual coaching) and Echo lab
Acquired heart disease: From diagnosis to treatment
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- Cool ECG cases – where a diagnosis is not so easy…
- Myocarditis and Endocarditis: Echo diagnosis
- Echocardiographic Assessment of Left Ventricular and Mitral Valve Geometry in Cats with Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
- Hands on echocardiography (individual coaching) and Echo lab
Preliminary Program (Subject to change)
Saturday, 5 December 2020
08:45 – 09:00 Welcome and Registration 09:00 – 09:45 What’s new – update on recent clinical studies concerning diagnostic tests /
Update Biomarker: Cardiac biomarkers in cardiac versus non-cardiac diseases 09:45 – 10:30 Practical session: interactive (difficult) ECG Cases 10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break 11:00 – 11:45 Interactive (difficult) case examples to apply pressure calculations using CW-Doppler 11:45 – 12:30 Advanced hemodynamic calculations using ECHO: Shunts, PISA and CO 12:30 – 13:30 Lunch Break 13:30 – 14:30 Practicals: Hands on echocardiography (individual coaching) 14:30 – 15:30 Practicals: Hands on echocardiography (individual coaching) 15:30 – 16:30 Practicals: Hands on echocardiography (individual coaching) 16:30 – 17:30 Practicals – interactive solving of cool ECHO cases
Sunday, 6 December 2020
09:00 – 09:45 What’s new – update on recent clinical studies concerning treatment options 09:45 – 10:30 Assessment of diastolic function: Principles and Pattern Recognition. 10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break 11:00 – 11:45 Tissue Doppler Imaging basics. Tissue velocity, Strain, Strain Rate: technical aspects, different methods, pitfalls 11:45 – 1230 Conventional and Doppler echocardiography for diagnosing congestive heart failure 12:30 – 13:30 Lunch Break 13:30 – 14:30 Practicals: Hands on echocardiography (individual coaching) 14:30 – 15:30 Practicals: Hands on echocardiography (individual coaching) 15:30 – 16:30 Practicals: Hands on echocardiography (individual coaching) 16:30 – 17:30 Practicals – interactive solving of cool ECHO cases
Monday, 7 December 2020
09:00 – 09:45 Utilizing echocardiography to guide Therapy: Case Examples 09:45 – 10:30 Pulmonary arterial hypertension, heart worm disease, and cor pulmonale – advanced echocardiographic assessment 10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break 11:00 – 11:45 Clinical applications of Tissue Doppler imaging 11:45 – 12:30 Critical appraisal of echocardiographic methods to diagnose MMVD and DCM 12:30 – 13:30 Lunch Break 13:30 – 14:30 Practicals: Hands on echocardiography (individual coaching) 14:30 – 15:30 Practicals: Hands on echocardiography (individual coaching) 15:30 – 16:30 Practicals: Hands on echocardiography (individual coaching) 16:30 – 17:30 Practicals – interactive solving of cool ECHO cases
Tuesday, 8 December 2020
09:00 – 09:45 Complex and rare congenital cardiac abnormalities 09:45 – 10:30 Practicals – Cardiac Jeopardy – Congenital heart disease 10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break 11:45 – 12:30 Practicals – interactive solving of cool ECHO cases 13:30 – 14:30 Practicals: Hands on echocardiography (individual coaching) 14:30 – 15:30 Practicals: Hands on echocardiography (individual coaching) 15:30 – 16:30 Practicals: Hands on echocardiography (individual coaching) 16:30 – 17:30 Practicals – interactive solving of cool ECHO cases
Wednesday, 9 December 2020
09:00 – 10:00 Practicals: Cool ECG/ECHO cases – where a diagnosis is not so easy… 10:00 – 10:45 When HCM is not HCM 10:45 – 11:15 Coffee Break 11:15 – 12:00 Echocardiographic assessment of LV and mitral valve geometry in cats with HCM 12:00 – 13:00 Lunch Break 13:00 – 14:15 Practicals: Hands on echocardiography (individual coaching) 14:15 – 15:00 Practicals: Hands on echocardiography (individual coaching) 15:00 – 15:45 Practicals: Hands on echocardiography (individual coaching) 15:45 – 16:00 Wrap up of the course
Total hours: 40
ATF hours (Austria, Germany, Luxembourg, Switzerland): TBA
ECTS credits (Master & Certificate): 5
We thank following companies for supporting this course:
Registration and fees
Tuition fee: Euro 2.690.-
Early registration: Euro 2.590.-
(deadline for early registration payment: 5th June 2020)
Course location
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Luxembourg
162A Avenue de la Faïencerie / Limpertsberg, Luxembourg
University of Luxembourg, 162 Avenue de la Faiencerie, 1511 Luxembourg, Luxemburg
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