Hands-on Training to Assess Cardiac Function, Left Ventricle Output and Hypovolemia Using Neonatal Echocardiography Simulator

Saturday, May 4, 2024

8:00 AM – 9:30 AM ET

Location: Metro Toronto Convention Centre: 601

CE: Live CME: 1.5

Leader(s)

Yogen Singh, MD, MA (Cantab), FRCPCH

Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatology
Loma Linda University School of Medicine
Loma Linda, California, United States

Co-Leader(s)

Rangasamy Ramanathan, MBBS, MD

Professor of Pediatrics/ Division Chief/Program Director-NPM Fellowship
Pediatrics/Division of Neonatal Medicine
Keck School Of Medicine Of USC
Los Angeles, California, United States
Shahab Noori, MD, MS CBTI

Professor of Pediatrics
Children's Hospital Los Angeles, University of Southern California, United States
Shazia Bhombal, MD

Associate Professor
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Mahmood Ebrahimi, MD. RDCS

Clinical Instructor in Pediatrics
LAC+USC Medical Center
Encino, California, United States
BC

Belinda Chan, MD

Associate Professor
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Jennifer Shepherd, MD

Assistant Professor
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California, United States
Piyawat Arichai, MD, FAAP (he/him/his)

NPM Fellow
Pediatrics
Children's Hospital Los Angeles, LAGeneral, USC
Children's National Hospital
Pasadena, California, United States
MU

Merujan Uzunyan, MD (he/him/his)

Director Pediatric Cardiology
USC
CHATSWORTH, California, United States
Mark Weems, MD

Medical Director, Le Bonheur Children's Hospital NICU
University of Tennessee Health Science Center, United States
IS

Ivonne Sierra-strum, MD (she/her/hers)

USC Keck School of Medicine
Alhambra, California, United States
TA

Timur Azhibekov, MD, MS (he/him/his)

Attending Neonatologist
Metrohealth Medical Center
Cleveland, Ohio, United States

Disclosure(s):

Yogen Singh, MD, MA (Cantab), FRCPCH: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Rangasamy Ramanathan, MBBS, MD: Chiesi, USA. (Ongoing) (Products/Services: Speaker Honorarium including speakers bureau, symposia, and expert witness); Medtronic (Ongoing) (Products/Services: Research Support including clinical trials & the principal or named investigator); Neotech Products, Inc (Ongoing) (Products/Services: Intellectual Property including patent beneficiary and royalties)

Shahab Noori, MD, MS CBTI: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Shazia Bhombal, MD: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Mahmood Ebrahimi, MD. RDCS: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Belinda Chan, MD: GE (Terminated, September 15, 2023) (Products/Services: Consultant)

Jennifer Shepherd, MD: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Piyawat Arichai, MD, FAAP: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Merujan Uzunyan, MD: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Mark Weems, MD: Abbott Congenital Heart (Ongoing) (Products/Services: Consultant, Speaker Honorarium including speakers bureau, symposia, and expert witness)

Ivonne Sierra-strum, MD: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Timur Azhibekov, MD, MS: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Workshop

Description: Targeted Neonatal Echocardiography (TnECHO) is increasingly recognized as a useful tool in assessment of hemodynamic status and management of cardiovascular compromise in neonatal and pediatric intensive care units. It’s extremely valuable in assessing patients with shock and targeting specific interventions. However, the widespread use of TnECHO has been hampered by limited opportunities to learn the skills. Training in echocardiography is a complex process that, in addition to thorough theoretical knowledge, requires hands-on training.
Proposed workshop will have 15 echocardiographic simulators capable of simulating a full range of neonatal echocardiography views and scanning modes. The main simulator screen displays the full range of 17 echocardiographic views and the side screen displays the position and motion of the cutting planes through a three-dimensional heart model. The system includes a software module to perform hemodynamic measurements from specific video clip images. The learner will be introduced to the standard 17 echocardiographic views with a hands-on approach using the simulator.
Learners will practice 6/17 echocardiographic views in a term infant with shock through following views: parasternal short and long axis, apical 4-chamber, apical 5-chamber, and sub-costal sagittal views to rapidly assess cardiac contractility, evaluate LV %FS, LV cardiac output and preload status by evaluating inferior vena cava size. The workshop comprises a 30-minute introduction and review of the standard views and 60-minute hands-on practice. Each simulator will be used by 4 learners and 60 learners can participate in the workshop. Leaders and Co-Leaders have extensive experience in using TnECHO in their daily practice.

Learning Objectives:

Know the focused standard echocardiographic views required for rapid assessment of shock
Able to rapidly assess cardiac function on eyeballing and semi-quantitative assessment - distinguish normal from grossly reduced myocardial contractility, and to guide fluid versus inotropic therapy
Able to assess IVC collapsibility, left ventricular cardiac output (LVO) and left ventricle fraction shortening (%FS)