Date: March 10, 2022 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM EST

CME Information: 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. 

The ASE Pediatric and Congenital Heart Disease Council is continuing a series of webinars to discuss and share practical tips / tricks in the practice of congenital heart disease imaging. This educational offering will comprise of 4 webinars /year (one per quarter). By leveraging the virtual platform, these sessions are designed to reach the ASE pediatric and congenital community, both sonographers and physicians.

This webinar will be a presentation based discussion with focus on emerging role of contrasted enhanced echocardiography imaging in pediatric cardiology. Although use of CE-echo has been long established in adult echocardiography, CE-echo is an emerging modality in pediatrics and is not performed in most pediatric echocardiography laboratories. There is a growing body of literature validating use of CE-echo in acquired and congenital heart disease in pediatric patients with great interest from the community in how to implement CE-echo protocols within pediatric echocardiography laboratories."

Moderators:

• Jennifer Tresness, RDCS(PE/AE), RDMS(FE), FASE
• Seda Tierney, MD, FASE

Speakers:

• Jarrett Linder, MD, MS
• Kasey Chaszczewski, MD
• Rebecca Beroukhim, MD
• Michael Convery, RVT, RDCS

Panelists:

• Shelby Kutty, MD, FASE
• Christiane Haeffele, MD
• Kristen Billick, BS, RDCS(AE, PE), ACS,FASE

Learning Objectives

• Understand current evidence for utility of CE-echo in pediatric acquired heart disease.
• Understand current evidence for utility of CE-echo in pediatric congenital disease.
• Comprehend benefits of CE-echo vs cross sectional imaging modalities relative to one another in pediatric patients.
• Understand best practices as well as challenges and pitfalls to establishing pediatric CE-echo protocol.

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 1.5 hour(s) 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 enables the participant to earn up to 1 MOC point in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program.

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.

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

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