Barts Heart Centre Stress Echo CourseMonday 4th November 2019

09.00 Registration

09.30 Welcome & Introduction of faculty

Session 1: Stress Echo & Ischaemia

09:30 Evidence base for ischaemia & viability testing

10:00 Stress protocols (treadmill, bicycle, dobutamine, pacing, dipyridamole)

10:15 Contrast in stress echo

10:30 3D/Strain in stress echo

10:45 Coffee break

Session 2: Stress Echo & Structural Heart Disease

11:00 Aortic Stenosis: Low flow, Low gradient

11.30 Mitral Stenosis

11.45 Mitral Regurgitation

12.00 HCM

12.30 Lunch

Session 3: Read With The Experts

13.30 Ischaemic Cases

14.30 Structural & Valve Cases

15:30 Coffee

Session 4: Quality, Audit & Accreditation

16:00 Stress Echo Accreditation

16:15 Audit & Quality Standards in Stress Echo

16.30 Finish & Feedback

Optional Practical Half day

Tuesday 5th November 201909.00 – 12.00

Small groups (2 -3 participants) observation and teaching around live cases (mix of ischaemia, structural and valve cases)