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Content:

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Optimal  imaging:  practical  physics  and  imaging  protocols  -­‐  how  to  acquire  the   optimal  study  at  the  lowest  radiation  dose?  
Optimal  use  of  viewing  workstations  
Cardiac  anatomy    
Systematic  evaluation  and  interpretation  of  cardiac  and  non-­‐cardiac  findings  
Imaging  of  ischaemic  heart  disease  with  multimodality  correlation    
Coronary  artery  anomalies 

Imaging  of  coronary  artery  bypass  graft  disease  and  coronary  stents  ​​
Imaging  of  valvular  disease  and  cardiac  failure  
Cardiac  tumours  
Congenital  heart  diseases

TAVI planning
Extra-cardiac  findings     

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​Attendance  at  scanning  sessions  at  the EBH hospital  can  be   arranged.

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(1) Budoff MJ, Cohen MC, Garcia MJ et al. ACCF/AHA clinical competence statement on cardiac imaging with computed tomography and magnetic resonance. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 2005;46:383-402.

Course details:​​

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The course offers lectures and hands on experience in the interpretation of 150 contrast enhanced CT coronary angiograms as well as multiple non contrast coronary calcium scans. The University of Edinburgh’s cardiac CT course curriculum is in accordance with the ACCF/AHA clinical competence statement (1).

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Cases will be reviewed on Vitrea workstations (1 - 2 delegates per workstation).

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The course meets the requirements for level II accreditation as defined the British Society of Cardiac Imaging and the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography.

 

CPD/CME accreditation:

 

Edinburgh Cardiac CT course is accredited 30 Category 1 CME hours by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The course is also endorsed by the Saudi Commission for Health Specialties.