This webinar, hosted by Dr. Rebecca Hahn, will focus on the new Standards for the Performance of Transesophageal Echocardiographic Screening for Structural Heart Intervention guideline. The guideline is intended for the Level II or III echocardiographer whose pre-procedural imaging becomes the backbone of structural heart disease (SHD) procedural planning for the heart team. The structured imaging acquisition protocols and extensive figures and tables show examples of the protocols and should benefit all echocardiographers involved in the care of SHD patients.

CME/MOC Information: 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits^TM

Release Date: December 2021

Activity Expiration Date: December 20, 2024 - CME/MOC must be claimed by this date

Target Audience: This activity is designed for all cardiovascular sonographers and physicians with a primary interest and knowledge base in the field of cardiovascular imaging.

Learning Objectives:

1. Review the justification for the new guidelines and appreciate the additional imaging components to a comprehensive imaging protocol prior to structural heart intervention
2. Review the anatomy of the aortic and mitral valves.
3. Understand the essential imaging views and hemodynamic assessment required to perform a comprehensive evaluation of aortic valve function.
4. Understand the essential imaging views and hemodynamic assessment required to perform a comprehensive evaluation of mitral valve function.

Accreditation Statement:

The American Society of Echocardiography is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The American Society of Echocardiography designates this article for a maximum of 1 hour of AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program and/or the American Board of Anesthesiology’s (ABA) Maintenance of Certification in Anesthesiology Program® or MOCA 2.0®. It is ASE’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC points and/or ABA MOCA 2.0®.   Physicians will earn MOC and/or MOCA 2.0 points equivalent to the amount of CME credits claimed for the activity.

ARDMS, CCI, Sonography Canada recognize ASE’s certificates and have agreed to honor the credit hours toward their registry requirements for sonographers.

Disclosures: 

According to ACCME policy, ASE actively identified relevant financial relationships between faculty in control of this accredited CE activity and ineligible companies, and implemented mitigation strategies to eliminate any potential influence from persons or organizations that may have an incentive to insert commercial bias in this activity.

Dr. Hahn has the following financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose:

• Edwards Lifescience (Speaker's Bureau, Scientific Advisory Board)
• Abbott Vascular (Scientific Advisory Board)
• Boston Scientific (Scientific Advisory Board)
• Philips Healthcare (Speaker's Bureau, Scientific Advisory Board)
• Gore & Associates (Scientific Advisory Board)
• Medtronic (Scientific Advisory Board)

The following CME reviewers and ASE Staff reported no actual or potential conflicts of interest in relation to this document: 

• Alysha Cieniewicz, ASE Online Education Manager
• Steve Boykin, M.Ed., MSW, ASE Virtual Education Manager
• Kelly Boegel, ACS, RCCS, RCS, FASE – Member at Large
• Ihab Hamzeh, MD – Member at Large
• Ambika Nayar, MD, FASE – Member at Large
• Nidhish Tiwari, MD, FASE, FACC, FACP – Member at Large

• Contact:
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