29 September 2 October 2016 Philips Customer Education Center Business Central Towers, Dubai Internet City, Sheikh Zayed Road, Dubai, UAE
The use of Multi-Detector CT (MDCT) in the diagnosis of various cardiac diseases has become increasingly important in recent years. This is mainly due to high performance MDCT systems with 64, 128 or 256 slice scanners being introduced to routine clinical use. They are used for routine assessment of cardiac and vascular anatomy as well as for the detection of coronary artery stenosis. Recently, initial experiences with measurement of myocardial perfusion and assessment of viability have been undertaken. Together with Philips Healthcare and organized as an inter-disciplinary approach, experienced Cardiology and Radiology clinicians have organized a 3 and a half day comprehensive cardiac CT training course to teach state-of-the-art cardiovascular MDCT targeting both Cardiology and Radiology colleagues who are not yet fully experienced in cardiac CT. Course Design Three and a half day intensive Cardiac CT course aimed at Cardiologists, Radiologists, and senior Radiographers with an interest in Cardiac CT. The basics of Cardiac CT will be established through lectures, live scanning and hands on cases. Over 50 cases will be interpreted and reviewed, sufficient for achieving level 1 ACC/AHA accreditation. Workshop Dedicated training on Philips workstations (One candidate per workstation). Instruction by experienced Cardiac CT readers and Philips applications specialists. Course Objectives How will I benefit from this course? Refresh knowledge in CT Image based cardiac anatomy and pathology Understand the valid clinical indications for Cardiac CTA (as per SCCT appropriateness criteria) Gain insight into cardiac specific CT requirements Learn best practice patient management Learn how to best optimize radiation dose in Cardiac CTA Understand the different scan protocols for Cardiac CTA (prospective versus retrospective) with the benefits and limitations of both Understand the role of calcium scoring scans and be able to report on results Interpret cardiac CTA exam Compile a structured report on a Cardiac CTA Review overview 50 cases Who should attend: This course is designed for, cardiologists, radiologists and senior radiographers with little or no experience in Cardiac CTA. Course accreditation: The course is accredited for 24.25 CME hours by the ACCME Course Language: English Location: Philips Customer Education Center Business Central Towers, Dubai Internet City, Sheikh Zayed Road, Dubai, UAE Participants: Maximum of 16 Course Fee: USD 1850 Registration: Click here or go to www.healthcare.philips.com/educate_me
Faculty Dr. Patrick Donnelly Dr. Patrick Donnelly is a Consultant Cardiologist in the Southeastern Health and Social Care Trust Belfast Northern Ireland. He received his medical degree from Queens University Belfast and completed higher speciality cardiovascular imaging training at Harvard University and the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston USA. He is director of the cardiovascular imaging, cardiovascular research, cardiac CT programme and the North Down Heart Start programme. He is an Honorary Senior lecturer at Queens University Belfast. He serves as clinical lead of the NI cardiovascular research network and sits on the UK national cardiovascular atherothrombosis research group. He advises a number of regional and national cardiovascular panels and has served as a faculty member to the Euroheart Care and European Society of Cardiology Congresses. He is an expert reviewer for a number of high impact peer review journals. His research interests include; cardiovascular genomics, biomarkers, cardiovascular disease prevention, atherothrombosis and advanced cardiovascular imaging. Dr Ben Ariff is a consultant radiologist at Imperial College NHS Trust, London and subspecialising in cardiac CT and cardiovascular MR, working within a multidisciplinary tertiary environment. He is level 3 accredited in cardiac CT (SCCT/BSCI) and CMR (SCMR); was an ESOR cardiac imaging fellow at Leiden University and has extensive experience in clinical pharmacology and general internal medicine, having completed his specialist training in both whilst working at the International Centre of Circulatory Health and St Mary's Hospital, London. Dr. Ben Ariff He was awarded a PhD for his work focusing on carotid artery remodelling and the local haemodynamic effects of anti-hypertensive agents combining computational fluid dynamics with imaging techniques.
Agenda Schedule 1/2 Day 1 8.00 : 08.30 Registration and Welcome Day 2 8.00 : 10.00 Case reading 8.30 : 9.00 9.00 : 9.45 Coronary CTA; Anatomy and Standard terminology Technical principles (Physics and dose) 10.00 : 10.15 Coffee break 10.15 : 10.45 Cardiac chamber anatomy and function 9.45 : 10.00 Coffee Break 10.45 : 12.00 Case reading 10.00 : 11.30 Buttonology CS + Calcium Score Cases (4) 12.00 : 12.45 Indications for Cardiac CTA 11.30 : 12.30 Buttonology CCA + Cases 12.30 : 14.00 Lunch break 14.00 : 15.00 Case reading 15.00 : 15.15 Coffee break 15.45 : 17.15 Case reading 12.45 : 13.30 Lunch break 13.30 : 15.30 Case reading 15:30 : 15.45 Coffee Break 15.45 : 17.00 Tips and tricks, Pitfalls and Artifacts 17.15 : 18.00 Coronary Calcium score What does it mean? 17.00 : 18.00 Live Case Review
Agenda Schedule 2/2 8.00 : 10.00 Cases Day 3 8.00 : 10.00 Cases Day 4 10.00 : 10.45 Extra cardiac findings, tumors, cardiomyopathies and pericardial disease 10.00 : 11.00 CT for PCI Planning and Imaging 10.45 : 11:00 Coffee Break 11.00 : 13.00 Cases 13.00 : 13.45 Lunch Break 11.00 : 11.15 Coffee break 11.15 : 12.15 Cases 14.30 : 15.30 Cases 15.30 : 15.45 Coffee Break 12.15 : 12.45 Iterative Model-Based Reconstruction: Clinical Perspectives 15.45 : 16.30 Plaque Assessment 12.45 : 13.00 Evaluation, certificates, adjourn 16.30 : 18.00 Cases 13.00 : 14.00 Lunch