This comprehensive one-day course serves as a platform for healthcare professionals to delve into the latest guidelines and standards regarding the prenatal detection of heart defects. Led by field experts, the program encompasses didactic lectures addressing current challenges, best practices in prenatal counseling, and delivery planning.
Attendees will gain insights into fetal cardiac physiology, various types of congenital cardiovascular diseases, and advancements in cardiac imaging, fostering a deeper understanding of these complex topics. Facilitated by experts from Pediatric Cardiology and Maternal Fetal Medicine disciplines, the event encourages open dialogue through interactive question-and-answer sessions and panel discussions.
Moreover, participants will have the opportunity for case observations and live echo scanning sessions, enhancing their practical skills and diagnostic capabilities. By fostering interdisciplinary collaboration among healthcare teams, this event aims to enhance patient experiences and ultimately improve outcomes.
PLEASE NOTE: You have to register and complete the requirements for continuing education credit.
Event Objectives:
- Describe current guidelines for fetal cardiac screening and fetal echocardiography.
- Discuss the advances of fetal cardiac imaging.
- Identify key markers to determine post-natal acuity of possible cyanotic congenital heart defects.
- Determine the clinical importance of accurate and compassionate prenatal detection and diagnosis of congenital heart disease.
- Describe the challenges of prenatal counseling.
- Identify ways to improve multidisciplinary collaboration between maternal fetal medicine and pediatric cardiology.
Presenters: Reem S. Abu-Rustum, MD | Ahmed Al-Malt, MD, FACOG | Jennifer Co-Vu, MD | Rachel Danielle Fisher, MD, FAAP | Jorge A. Garcia, MD, FACC, FASE | Jim Huhta, MD | Howard Hsu, MD | Joyce "Joy" T. Johnson, MD, MSCI | Shantel Jordan, RDMS, RVT | Bassem Mora, MD, MBA | Summer A. Rye-Buckingham, MD | Bethany Sanford, RDCS, RVT, Jacueline Shuplock, MD, MSCI
Completion Requirements: To receive continuing education credit commensurate with the credit awarded for this live event, the participant must:
- Attend the events.
- Complete and submit the on-line evaluation.
Certificates of Completion: will be available to print immediately upon finishing the completion requirements. You are encouraged to print and save your certificate for your portfolio as required by your licensing body. Interdisciplinary accredited activities, activities having multiple accreditors, will be listed individually on the Certificate of Completion.
Non-Endorsement of Products: echelon®, as an accredited provider, has demonstrated proficient experience and viable resources to provide for valid and reliable evaluation of CE activities. The accuracy of the facts and opinions contained in this activity are the responsibility of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect those of echelon® or its sponsors. Practitioners should consult primary resources, state regulations, and their healthcare facility policies and procedures for specific application of said content to their local situation. echelon® does not imply that there is real or implied endorsement of any product, service, or company neither referred to in this activity nor of any company subsidizing costs related to this activity. All information contained in this activity is for educational purposes only.
Electronic Record Retention: All activity records are kept on file for a minimum of six (6) years.
echelon® also chooses full disclosure with each activity to report any author conflicts of interest or commercial affiliation or support in conjunction with any activity.
Educational Health Care Team Members and Course Author Conflict of Interest: There have been no conflicts of interest disclosed by planners, authors, or presenters; nor has there been disclosure of any relevant financial relationships with any commercial companies or their products pertaining to this activity.
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