Cardiac CT Course Part A 14-17 November 2014 Mohammed Bin Rashid Academic Medical Center Dubai Healthcare City, 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 interdisciplinary approach, experienced Cardiology and Radiology clinicians have organized a 3 and a half day comprehensive cardiac CT training course to teach state-ofthe-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: Sheikh Mohamed Bin Rashid Academic Medical Centre, Dubai Healthcare City, Dubai Participants: Maximum of 20 Course Fee: USD 1750 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. Dr. Peter Ball is a Consultant Cardiothoracic radiologist based in the Ulster Hospital Belfast. After completing his medical degree in Belfast, he trained in London and New Zealand before returning to Northern Ireland. He has been involved in multiple local and international research projects and has lectured on cardiothoracic imaging throughout Europe. He is a course director for the Belfast Cardiac CT course which is now in its 5 year. He is a passionate advocate of joint cardiac / radiology partnership in Cardiac Imaging and is closely involved with radiology registrar HPT Cardiothoracic training. Dr. Peter Ball His research interests include; cardiovascular genomics, biomarkers, cardiovascular disease prevention, atherothrombosis and advanced cardiovascular imaging.
Agenda Schedule 1/2 Friday, 14 th November 2014 9.00 : 09.30 Registration 09:30 : 10.00 Welcome: Opening remarks 10.00 : 10.45 10.45 : 12.00 Buttonology 12.00 : 12.30 Case 1 12.30 : 14.30 Lunch break 14.30 : 15.45 15.45 : 16.30 Cases 16.30 : 16.45 Coffee break Coronary CTA; Anatomy and Standard terminology Basic Physics of Cardiac CT and Radiation dose Saturday, 15 th November 2014 08.45 : 9.00 Arrival at Dubai Hospital 9.00 : 10.30 Tips and Tricks, Pitfalls and artifacts 10.45 : 12.15 Live scanning /case reading 12.15 : 12.45 Live scanning/case reading 12.45 : 13.30 Lunch break 13.30 : 14.15 Live scanning/case reading 14.15 : 15.00 Live scanning/case reading 15.00 : 15.15 Coffee break 15.15 : 16.00 How to report Cardiac CT 16.45 : 17.30 Current Indications for CCTA 16.00 : 17.00 Case reading
Agenda Schedule 2/2 Sunday, 16 th November 2014 8.30 : 09.30 Cases 10.00 : 10.30 Coronary Calcium : What does it mean? 10.45 : 11.00 Buttonology Calcium Scoring 11.00 : 11.45 Calcium scoring cases 11.45 : 12:30 Cases 12.30 : 13.30 Lunch break 13.30 : 14.30 Cases 14.30 : 15.15 Plaque Assessment 15.15 : 16.00 Cases 16.00 : 16.15 Coffee break 16.15 : 18.00 Cases Monday, 17 th November 2014 9.00 : 10.30 Cases 10.45 : 11.15 idose in Cardiac CT 11.15 : 12.15 Cases 12.15 : 12.45 Cardiac CT : Past, Present and Future 12.45 : 13.00 Evaluation, certificates, adjourn 13.00 : 14.00 Lunch