Heart Failure: Echo's
Role In An Emerging Health Crisis
Preliminary Program
TV SESSION I
1. THE EMERGING CRISIS OF HEART FAILURE
Case: The typical patient with heart failure
Lecture: The growing problem of heart failure
Mini Panel: Heart failure as a health care crisis
2. THE CLINICAL STATE OF HEART FAILURE
Demonstration: The gross pathology of systolic failure
Lecture: Assessing systolic failure: Ejection fraction, strain
and what’s important
Demonstration: The gross pathology of diastolic failure
Lecture: Diastolic failure: Impairment of filling
Lecture: Conditions that masquerade as heart failure: Valvular
disease, constriction, congenital heart disease and lung disease
Mini Panel: The clinical presentation of heart failure
Cases: Acute and chronic heart failure
Lecture: End stage failure: Mechanical assist and pre-transplant
3. MEASURING HEART FAILURE BY ECHO
Lecture: The useful indices of heart failure
Panel: The “how to” of measuring the useful clinical
indices of heart failure. What to do and when to do it.
TV SESSION II
Panel: The echo workup of failure: What is important
and routine? What should be done and when?
4. ALTERING OUTCOME
Lecture: Assessing failure over time
Cases: Technical hints in patients who are older, more
obese and those with lung disease
Report: The use of handheld devices
Report: The importance of comparing to the old echo
5. NEW THERAPIES AND WHAT IS NEXT FOR
ECHO
Lecture: The role for contrast perfusion
Lecture: The role for DTI
Lecture: Medical strategies: Drug therapy, pacing, gene
therapy and others
Lecture: Surgical strategies: LV surgical remodeling, mitral
valve surgery, transplantation and replacement
Report: Other incipient echo techniques
Panel: Changing the outcome of heart failure
The program at each site will consist of two
live TV sessions. You may check our website at: www.echoincontext.org
for the latest update in program development.
Acknowledgement:
Duke University School of Medicine and Philips Medical Systems
are pleased to acknowledge Edwards Lifesciences, BMS Medical Imaging,
and WorldCare Global e-Health for their additional financial support
or cooperation.
Program Development: This
program is developed in accordance with the Standards for Commercial
Support of Continuing Medical Education set forth by the Accreditation
Council for Continuing Medical Education. Control of the planning
and content resides completely with Duke University School of
Medicine, the Program Director and the faculty.
Disclaimer: The omission in
the videoconference transmission of all or any part of the program
due to an act of God, inevitable accident, fire, act of government
or governmental instrumentality, failure of technical facilities,
illness or incapacity of any important performer, or other cause
of similar or different nature beyond the control of the “sponsors”
shall not constitute a failure of performance by the “sponsors.”
However, if no part of such program is transmitted, registrant
shall not be obligated to make any payment to the sponsors Philips
Medical Systems and Duke University School of Medicine with respect
to such program. The information provided at this CME activity
is for continuing medical education purposes only and is not meant
to substitute for the independent medical judgment of a physician
relative to diagnostic and treatment options of a specific patient’s
medical condition.
Special Needs Statement: The
Duke Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, is committed
to making its activities accessible to all individuals. If you
are in need of an accommodation, please do not hesitate to call
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to receive service.
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