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Contrast Echocardiography - Training Video

Contrast Echocardiography

 

Contrast Echocardiography

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Contrast Echocardiography

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Overview

Contrast Echocardiography Training Video is designed for the sonographer and physician involved with performing and/or or interpreting contrast echocardiography. The clinical utilization of contrast has expanded and is an important tool in echocardiography. The FDA has deemed the use of contrast to be a safe, effective, and non-invasive method to enhance assessment of everything from cardiac structures to Doppler signals.

Date of Original Release: 2/8/2024
This edition valid for credit through: 2/8/2027
Video Length: 01:07:00

Online Video Product Code: OV-CEC3
USB Product Code: USB-CEC3

Topics

  • Bubble Study/Agitated Saline
  • FDA Approved Agents
  • Known Contraindications to Contrast
  • Guidelines and Recommendations for Contrast
  • Image Optimization
  • Appropriate Indications
  • Wall Motion Abnormality
  • Cardiac Masses
  • Structural Abnormalities
  • Stress with Contrast
  • Doppler Enhancement
  • Interpreting Contrast Echocardiography

Objectives

  • List appropriate indications for use of contrast.
  • Outline administration techniques and instrument settings when contrast is utilized.
  • Interpret contrast acquired information.

Audience

Physicians, sonographers and other medical professionals interested in performing and/or or interpreting contrast echocardiography.

Faculty

GulfCoast Ultrasound Institute

Steven Walling  BS, RCS, ACS, RDCS, FASE

Director and Clinical Coordinator
Hoffman Heart School of Cardiovascular Technology
Trinity Health of New England Corporation, Inc.
Hartford, CT
No relevant financial relationships to disclose.

Content Validation
All presentations for this CME activity were reviewed and approved by members of the GUI CME Review Committee to determine content validity and to ensure that no conflicts of interest exist prior to the activity commencement or material compilation.

Disclosure of Individuals in Control of Content
In addition to the faculty listed the following individuals are recognized by GUI as being in control of content of this program:

James Mateer, MD, RDMS (Medical Director - planner, QI Task Force)
Gulfcoast Ultrasound Institute
Milwaukee, WI
No relevant financial relationships to disclose.

Charlotte Derr, MD, RDMS, FACEP, FPD-AEMUS (Co-Medical Director - planner, QI Task Force)
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine
Fellowship Director of Advanced Emergency Medicine Ultrasound Fellowship Program
University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine
Tampa, FL
No relevant financial relationships to disclose

Andreas Dewitz, MD, RDMS (Member of Advisory Board & QI Task Force Subcommittee)
Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine
Clinical Director of POCUS Education, Solomont Simulation Center
Department of Emergency Medicine Boston Medical Center
Boston, MA.
No relevant financial relationships to disclose

Lori Green, BA, RDMS, RDCS, RVT (Program Director - planner, Content Reviewer, QI Task Force)
Program Director and President,
Gulfcoast Ultrasound Institute, Inc.
St Petersburg, FL.
No relevant financial relationships to disclose

Trisha Reo, AAS, RDMS, RVT (Program Coordinator - planner, Content Reviewer, QI Task Force)
Gulfcoast Ultrasound Institute, Inc.
St Petersburg, FL.
No relevant financial relationships to disclose


Disclosure of Commercial Support
There was no commercial support involved in the planning, development/implementation of this activity.


Credits (Optional with additional purchase)

The Gulfcoast Ultrasound Institute is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.


The Gulfcoast Ultrasound Institute designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

This course also meets CME/CEU requirements for ARDMS. Note: While offering the CME credit hours noted above, activities are not intended to provide extensive training or certification for exam performance or interpretation.

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