Texas Heart Institute 1st Annual Perioperative Mechanical Circulatory Support Symposium & Cutting-Edge Critical Care Echo Workshop 2023

Overview

The Texas Heart Institute 1st Annual Perioperative Mechanical Circulatory Support Symposium & Cutting-Edge Critical Care Echo Workshop 2023 provides comprehensive educational content focused on perioperative management, advanced echocardiography, and critical care in mechanical circulatory support (MCS). This activity blends multidisciplinary clinical decision-making with practical, hands-on training and interactive learning to reinforce expertise in managing complex cardiac patients.

On-demand cardiology education — accessible anytime, anywhere.

Format: 42 videos, 1 PDF
Total size: 5.86 GB

Agenda

This educational resource offers an extensive agenda covering perioperative considerations, critical care echocardiography, and management of mechanical circulatory support devices. The content supports strengthening clinical skills across a wide range of perioperative scenarios and advanced diagnostic techniques.

• Anesthesiology Considerations
• Anticoagulation Management in Temporary Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices
• Assessing Heart Transplant and LVAD Candidacy in Patients on Temporary MCS
• Cutting-Edge Physical Therapy in MCS
• Early Recognition and Management of Right Ventricular Failure
• End of Life Issues in LVAD Patients
• Keynote: The Artificial Heart History and Current Reality
• LVAD Optimization
• Management of Acute Renal Failure Following LVAD Placement
• Management of Acute Respiratory Failure Following LVAD Insertion
• Management of Coagulopathy in LVAD Insertion Procedures
• Management of Right Ventricular Failure Following LVAD Insertion: The Intensivist Perspective
• Management of Vasoplegic Shock in LVAD Insertion Procedures
• Nursing Interventions to Prevent Complications in Temporary MCS
• Nursing Priorities in the Care of LVAD Patients with Post-Operative Complications
• Pearls in the Anticoagulation Management of LVAD Patients
• Plan Execution, Effective Communication, and Escalation by APCs in LVAD Patient Management
• Preoperative LVAD Optimization
• Prevention and Management of Device-Related Complications
• Surgical Considerations
• Temporary MCS Device Management Pearls
• Temporary MCS Device Selection as a Bridge to Advanced Heart Failure Therapies
• Temporary to Durable MCS Transition Surgical Considerations
• Advanced Perioperative Echocardiography in Challenging LVAD Cases
• Advanced Perioperative Echocardiography in VA ECMO Weaning
• Basic Knobology
• Competence Evaluation and Potential Certification for APCs
• Critical Care Echocardiography for Fluid Responsiveness Assessment
• Critical Care Echocardiography for Fluid Tolerance Assessment
• Critical Care Echocardiography in Left-Sided Temporary Mechanical Circulatory Support
• Critical Care Echocardiography in Right-Sided Temporary Mechanical Circulatory Support
• Critical Care Echocardiography Must-Know Interactive Cases
• Critical Care Echocardiography Stretching the Limits
• Critical Care Lung Ultrasonography Must-Know Interactive Cases
• Framework to Mitigate Diagnostic Errors With POCUS
• Fundamentals in Critical Care Echocardiography Assessment of Shock
• Fundamentals in Critical Care Echocardiography Views
• Lung Ultrasonography Assessment in Critically Ill Patients
• Non-Invasive Right Heart Catheterization With Critical Care Echocardiography
• Real-Time Critical Care Ultrasonography in Procedural Guidance
• Resuscitative Transesophageal Echocardiography
• Secrets of Diastology

Educational Objectives

At the conclusion of this series, participants should be able to:

• Analyze the most prevalent complications associated with temporary mechanical circulatory support.
• Describe approaches to evaluate candidacy factors linked to poorer left ventricular assist device (LVAD) outcomes.
• Outline interventions for effective treatment of intraoperative complications affecting LVAD outcomes.
• Apply a systematic diagnostic approach and manage perioperative right ventricular failure, including initiation of right ventricular assist device (RVAD) support.
• Assess cost-effective and safe advanced practice provider-driven models of perioperative care for patients receiving mechanical circulatory support.
• Delineate clinical scenarios where comprehensive echocardiography by cardiologists is preferred in MCS support, as well as scenarios where intensivists performing critical care echocardiography can provide more timely and safer management than consultative echocardiography.

Speakers

This symposium features expert faculty from the Texas Heart Institute and related specialties. The presentations reflect a multidisciplinary collaboration among cardiologists, anesthesiologists, intensivists, and advanced practice providers specialized in mechanical circulatory support and critical care echocardiography.

Target Audience

This course is designed for cardiologists, echocardiographers, anesthesiologists, intensivists, sonographers, and advanced practice providers involved in perioperative management and critical care of patients with mechanical circulatory support devices.

Why This Topic Matters

The Texas Heart Institute 1st Annual Perioperative Mechanical Circulatory Support Symposium & Cutting-Edge Critical Care Echo Workshop 2023 addresses critical clinical decision-making and diagnostic challenges in perioperative cardiology. The multidisciplinary focus supports practitioners in enhancing their expertise in the management of complex mechanical circulatory support patients.

Accessed through MedHub Central, this course offers cardiology professionals timely, practice-oriented education that integrates advanced echocardiographic techniques with clinical care strategies to improve patient management in this specialized field.