5- 6 October, 2024
Dear Colleagues,
We, the Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Division at PGIhome/teepgi1/web_filesMER are pleased to announce the "XI BASIC ADULT & II PEDIATRIC TRANSTHORACIC ECHO WITH POCUS WORKSHOP” organised under the aegis of the Society of Transesophageal Echocardiography scheduled to take place on 5th-6th October 2024 in the Seminar hall 2nd floor, Advanced Cardiac Centre, PGIMER, Chandigarh.
After the conduct of 10 successful annual basic transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) course, we welcome you to a two day long workshop where apart from basic TTE on healthy volunteers you will also learn TTE on cardiac patients both adult and pediatric by eminent cardiologists as well as point of care ultrasound (POCUS) from distinguished guest faculty.
We all encounter situations where we feel the need to know how is the heart functioning? Is there a need to give volume or add inotropes? Although several devices are available but none are conclusive. TTE is one modality that helps diagnose a cardiac pathology or rule out a cardiac cause for hemodynamic instability. It’s an indispensable tool in today’s time. Whether it is emergency or elective procedure TTE and Point of care ultrasound(POCUS) comes to your rescue.
It’s time we learn from our national esteemed faculty comprising of Cardiologists, Cardiac anesthetists and Intensivists the art of performing transthoracic echocardiography and POCUS. This course provides a unique opportunity to learn if you are novice and clear all your doubts if you are already practicing. There is ample opportunity to interact with the experts during hands on session.
This workshop is unique in that it provides you with the basics of transthoracic echocardiography that is a window to your heart, details of POCUS examination & hemodynamic calculation in both healthy volunteer and patients with cardiac pathology. The highlight of this course is the wholesome approach to understanding ultrasound. It starts with the basic principles, different types of probes, optimizing the image, learning artifacts and pitfalls, acquisition of different views and its interpretation. Anatomical correlation during the porcine heart dissection helps you understand how the heart is viewed in different planes. This would be followed by hands on session where you can apply all the knowledge learnt on the volunteers to acquire skill of obtaining optimized views in healthy volunteers. There will be live demonstration by the cardiologists on adult and pediatric patients. This will help you correlate the difference between normal hearts of volunteers and hearts with pathology in cardiac patients. Learn from the cardiologist on when to call the experts.
Notable features include a special lecture on fluid responsiveness-latest updates, sessions on point of care ultrasound (POCUS) that is inclusive of lung and airway ultrasound, gastric ultrasound and DVT scan followed by hands on session.
Join us for this workshop which is meticulously designed to enrich your knowledge and refine your skills. Practical tips with latest updates is our focus so that clinical application of the acquired knowledge can be achieved.
Chandigarh, the city beautiful is known for its greenery and picturesque views. The weather in the month of October is pleasant. You can have a fresh start in the morning by a walk along the Sukhna Lake or the Rose Garden. Rock Garden is yet another place to appreciate the reuse of waste. This place spread over an area of 40 acres is completely built by Nek Chand from industrial, home waste and discarded items. Visit the Sec -17 market to shop and enjoy a pleasant evening. Several malls and food joints are there to tickle your taste buds in and around tricity.
Hope you have a pleasant stay and make the most of this workshop.
Please mark your calendar and save the dates. See you at the workshop!
.With Warm Regards & Best Wishes,
Dr Ira Dhawan
Click here for Workshop Brochure
10 CME hours awarded by Punjab Medical Council to the workshop
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| Prof. GD Puri | Prof. Bhupesh Kumar | Dr. Kulbhushan Saini | Dr. Indranil Biswas |
| Adviser | Organising Chairperson | Organising Secretary | Co-organising Secretary |
Important Dates and Information for Award paper / Abstract submission
- Early bird registration ending on 31st Jan 2024
- Last Date of submission for manuscripts for competitive award section 31st Jan 2024
- Date of oral paper presentation (award section) 12th February 2024
- Those wishing to participate in the competitive section must submit a complete manuscript.
- Five best submissions will be selected for oral presentation
- All the shortlisted submissions will have their Registration fees for the main conference/workshop (24th to 26th March 2023) waived off.
- Top three of these oral presentations will win prizes (Rs. 5000/-, Rs. 3000/-, Rs. 2000/- respectively).
- These best three will also be selected for publication in JOPE
- All the rest including those where only abstract has been submitted (except the five selected for oral presentations) will be presented as posters in the meeting.
- Abstracts submitted by 31st Jan will also be published as abstracts in the next JOPE issue.