AIUM Practical Fetal Heart Screening: The Five Essential Views 2024 (Videos + Slides)

Overview

AIUM Practical Fetal Heart Screening: The Five Essential Views 2024 (Videos + Slides) is a comprehensive on-demand course designed to enhance clinicians’ ability to perform fetal cardiac screening using the five essential views. This course provides detailed instruction on practical scanning techniques and fetal cardiac anatomy to improve detection rates of critical congenital heart defects.

On-demand obstetrics & gynecology education — accessible anytime, anywhere.

Agenda

This course offers a detailed schedule covering foundational knowledge, image optimization, live demonstrations, and hands-on sessions to reinforce fetal heart screening skills.

• Welcome & Introduction — Celeste Sheppard, MD
• Congenital Heart Disease in Perspective: Approach to Prenatal Screening of Congenital Heart Abnormalities — Celeste Sheppard, MD
• Getting Off to a Good Start: 2D and M-Mode Image Optimization — Deborah D’Agostini, RDMS, FAIUM
• Getting Off to a Good Start: Doppler Imaging Optimization — Deborah D’Agostini, RDMS, FAIUM
• Live Demonstration — Deborah D’Agostini, RDMS, FAIUM and Celeste Sheppard, MD
• Fetal Laterality, Visceral Situs, and Cardiac Position — Elena Sinkovskaya, MD, PhD
• Live Demonstration — Elena Sinkovskaya, MD, PhD and Celeste Sheppard, MD
• The Four-Chamber View — Celeste Sheppard, MD
• Live Demonstration — Celeste Sheppard, MD and Deborah D’Agostini, RDMS, FAIUM
• Outflow Tracts, Three Vessel and Trachea View — Elena Sinkovskaya, MD, PhD
• Live Demonstration and Q&A — Elena Sinkovskaya, MD, PhD and Deborah D’Agostini, RDMS, FAIUM
• Industry Sponsored Lunch and Learn by GE
• Hands-on Session — Celeste Sheppard, MD, Elena Sinkovskaya, MD, PhD and Deborah D’Agostini, RDMS, FAIUM
• Using Your Checklists: Case Presentations — Celeste Sheppard, MD, Elena Sinkovskaya, MD, PhD and Deborah D’Agostini, RDMS, FAIUM
• Putting it All Together – Case Presentations — Celeste Sheppard, MD, Elena Sinkovskaya, MD, PhD and Deborah D’Agostini, RDMS, FAIUM
• Q&A — Celeste Sheppard, MD, Elena Sinkovskaya, MD, PhD and Deborah D’Agostini, RDMS, FAIUM

Learning Objectives

• Utilize strategies and tools to improve scanning techniques.
• Detect more congenital abnormalities in utero to enhance prenatal care through better screening.

Speakers

• Celeste Sheppard, MD
• Deborah D’Agostini, RDMS, FAIUM
• Elena Sinkovskaya, MD, PhD

This course is hosted by the AIUM in joint providership with the Tiny Hearts Project.

Target Audience

This course is intended for physicians, sonographers, and other healthcare professionals involved in prenatal care and fetal ultrasound imaging who seek to improve their expertise in fetal cardiac screening and the detection of congenital heart defects.

Why This Topic Matters

AIUM Practical Fetal Heart Screening: The Five Essential Views 2024 (Videos + Slides) addresses a critical need in obstetric imaging by improving clinicians’ ability to identify congenital heart abnormalities prenatally. This knowledge is essential for optimizing patient management and prenatal care quality in fetal cardiology screening.

As a valuable resource offered through MedHub Central, this course strengthens professional competence and confidence in advanced fetal heart ultrasound techniques within the field of obstetrics and gynecology.