Improve Clinical Outcomes
Get experienced guidance regarding critically ill patients, patients with an echocardiographic assessment prior to cardiac intervention, and patients for whom echocardiograms are a necessary and regular evaluation.
Organized in four sections — general principles, disorders, modalities, and settings — this CME program focuses on contemporary clinical standards, in addition to presenting new available modalities, emerging indications, and new approaches, all of which have a dramatic impact on echocardiographic use.
Oakstone’s Echocardiography – A Comprehensive Review will help you:
- Understand clinical indications and quality assurance issues
- Recognize clinical uses, advantages, potential complications, and limitations of new available modalities
- Know the techniques needed to evaluate various diseases and disorders
- Summarize the characteristic findings of diseases of the myocardium
- Discuss the role of echocardiography in the intraoperative, critical care, and emergency department settings
* Date of Original Release: January 31, 2020
* Date of Expire: January 31, 2023
Learning Objectives
At the conclusion of this activity, the participant will be able to:
- Discuss image acquisition and Doppler analysis in echocardiography
- Explain the clinical indications and quality assurance issues of echocardiography
- Recognize the limitations and potential artifacts of an echocardiogram
- Describe the techniques needed to evaluate mitral valve disease
- Summarize the characteristic findings of diseases of the myocardium
- Explain the advantages of point-of-care handheld echocardiography
- Appraise the clinical uses and potential complications of stress, exercise, transesophageal, and contrast echocardiography
- Describe the principles and applications of three-dimensional echocardiography
- Discuss the role of echocardiography in the intraoperative, critical care, and emergency department settings
- Describe the therapeutic and prognostic implications for imaging the atria
- Summarize the use of echocardiography in cardio-oncology as a tool to provide comprehensive insight into cardiac structure and function