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Pediatric Cardiology Course
This seminar focuses on pediatric cardiology and was delivered in Salzburg, Austria, from January 7 – 31, 2018. The lectures are prepared by staff from Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) in weeklong modules that are prepared in affiliation with the American Austrian Foundation Open Medical Institute. The lectures of this seminar are presented in the order of the live event.
- Introduction to Congenital Heart Disease
- Pediatric Echocardiography
- Comprehensive Exam-Important Components: 15
- Subcostal/Subxiphoid Imaging: 17
- Abdominal Situs-Coronal View: 18
- IVC to Right Atrium: 19
- Subcostal Frontal Sweep: 20-22
- Subcostal Left Anterior Oblique View: 23+24
- Not a standard subcostal view, but you get so much information.
- Start with a subcostal frontal and rotate the probe 45 degrees clockwise.
- Subcostal Sagital: 25-27
- 90 degree clockwise of the frontal
- Sweep from right to left
- Subcostal Anterior Oblique View: 29
- Counter-clockwise to frontal
- View rather than a sweep
- Apical Imaging: 31
- Apical Views [Fanning]: 32
- Apical 4 Chamber View: 33+34
- Outflow Tract-use PW above, at, and below the valve: 35
- Apical 5 Chamber View: 36
- Parasternal Imaging: 37
- Parasternal Long Axis [Fanning]: 38
- Transducer placed on the upper to mid left sternal border with the notch at the right shoulder.
- The long axis of the heart from the anterior chest wall
- Sweep from inferior/rightward to superior/leftward
- Parasternal Long Axis view showing a VSD in the area under the aortic valve in the membranous region: 39
- Parasternal Short Axis [Fanning]: 40
- [Transducer placed on the upper to mid left sternal border with the notch at the left shoulder.]
- Assess the aortic valve and mitral valve/papilary muscle anatomy en face and sweep towards the apex. Allows for assessment of short axis function and wall motion abnormalities as well as evaluation for hypertrophy.
- Aortic Valve Morphology: 41
- Coronary Artery Origins: 42
- Parasternal Short Axis at the level of the mitral valve: 43
- left echo shows muscular VSD
- right echo shows cleft in the mitral valve with mitral regurgitation.
- Pulmonary arteries view: 44
- Position the probe slightly superior and coronal in the left chest
- Pant leg view of the pulmonary arteries.
- Ductal View: 45
- High left parasternal window with notch at 12-1 o’clock
- Great image of the PDA entering the aorta
- Ductal View: 46
- You can measure the full length of the PDA. You can measure the aortic end and the pulmonary end.
- The pulmonary end and the aortic end can have quite different measurements
- The duct tends to close from the pulmonary end to the aortic end
- You can measure the full length of the PDA. You can measure the aortic end and the pulmonary end.
- Ductal View: 47+48
- Don’t really understand these images nor the lecturer’s points. Need to review with a knowledgeable examiner.
- Parasternal Long Axis [Fanning]: 38
- Suprasternal Views: 49
- 3D Technology in the Care of Patients with CHD
- This lecture discusses 3D simulation and 3D printing in surgical planning for CHD. An awesome fun lecture.
- Differentiating Benign from Malignant Syncope
- Interventions for Single Ventricle Failure
- Variation in Prenatal Diagnosis of Congenital Heart Disease
- Understanding SVT Mechanisms and Management
- Updates in Fetal Echocardiography: Fetal Echo for Complex CHD
- Anti-Arrhythmic Drug Management of Pediatric Arrhythmias
- Chronic Heart Failure in Congenital Heart Disease
- CHOP/HUP Center for Lymphatic Imaging and Interventions
- Overview of Pediatric Heart Transplantation
- Echocardiography of Coronary Arteries in Congenital Heart Disease
- Great lecture but first review Pediatric Echocardiography.
- Inherited Channelopathies