This course is a collection of presentations taken from Echo Florida 2023. These presentations cover topics such as strain imaging, mitral regurgitation, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, valvular heart disease, and more.

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 activity for a maximum of 12.0 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, the American Board of Pediatrics (ABP) 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 and ABP 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, and Sonography Canada recognize ASE’s certificates and have agreed to honor the CME credit hours toward their registry requirements for sonographers.

Release Date: November 17, 2023

Activity Expiration Date: November 17, 2026 - CME/MOC must be claimed by this date

Presentations Included:

• "C'est LAVI!" Optimizing Left Sided Chamber Assessment
• On the Main Stage: Approaches to Assessing Left Ventricular Systolic Function
• Getting Your "Fill:" Basic Diastolic Physiology and Assessment
• Strain Imaging: What, How, Why, and When
• On the Front Line: How to Optimize Strain
• No Longer Playing Second Fiddle: How to Assess the Right Heart!
• Diastolic Function: Normal? Abnormal? Truly Indeterminate? Help! How to Reconcile Conflicting Results (Cases)
• 3D How-To: Acquisition, Cropping, and Display
• Stress Echocardiography I: Coronary Artery Disease? Treadmill, Bicycle, and Pharmacologic (Cases)
• Stress Tips for Sonographers
• Aortic Stenosis: Area, Gradients, Flow? Core Concepts in Aortic Stenosis
• How Echo Assesses Aortic Stenosis: Trying to Get It Right
• Dobutamine Stress Echo for Low Flow Low Gradient Aortic Stenosis: When and How
• Aortic Regurgitation: Getting the Complete Picture - Why and How Much? Illustrative Cases
• No Longer Forgotten: The Tricuspid and Pulmonic Valves
• Mitral Regurgitation: Primary, Secondary, and Proportionality - Core Concepts and Controversy
• Grading Mitral Regurgitation: It Is Complicated
• "The Half-Time Show:" Quantitation of Rheumatic and Calcific Mitral Stenosis
• Endocarditis: Multimodality Imaging
• Prosthetic Valves: Not Quite Good as New
• Valvular Heart Disease: The Important Contributions of CT and MRI
• When You Need a Helping Hand: What You Need to Know About Assist Devices
• I Can See Clearly Now - Cases Where Contrast Administration Makes a Difference
• Imaging in the Adult Patient with Congenital Heart Disease
• The Chameleon: Constrictive Pericarditis
• Diseases of the Aorta
• Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy and HCM Mimics: An Echo-MRI Collaborative: Echocardiography
• Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy and HCM Mimics: An Echo-MRI Collaborative: MRI
• Amyloid Heart Disease: A Multimodality Approach
• Stress Cardiomyopathy: Helping the Octopus Escape the Pot
• Medical Emergencies: When You Need to Think Fast!

Disclosures: 

ASE is committed to ensuring that its educational mission, and all accredited continuing educational programs provide a protected space to learn, teach, and engage in scientific discourse free from influence from organizations that may have an incentive to insert commercial bias into education.

While a monetary or professional affiliation with an ineligible company does not necessarily influence a speaker’s presentation, the Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education and policies of the ACCME require that all financial relationships with ineligible companies* be identified and mitigated prior to engaging in an accredited CE activity. In accordance with these policies, 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. (*Companies that are ineligible to be accredited in the ACCME System (“ineligible companies”) are those whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, reselling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.)

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