The first practical course dedicated to the practice of resuscitative TEE

DESPITE GROWING INTEREST AMONG EMERGENCY PHYSICIANS AND INTENSIVISTS, AN IMPORTANT BARRIER TO ADOPTION IS ACCESS TO TRAINING THAT IS TAILORED TO THE PRACTICE OF RESUSCITATIVE TEE.

The team of clinicians behind The Resuscitative TEE Project, a multidisciplinary group of Faculty who have pioneered the development of this application and accumulated vast teaching experience, have developed the first state-of-the-art practical course on resuscitative TEE.

Through this workshop, we hope to provide emergency physicians and intensivists, with a unique opportunity to gain basic training in this emerging modality.

COURSE DESCRIPTION & DETAILS

This optional assessment can be particularly useful for physicians leading the development of TEE programs at their institutions, as they would be able to obtain the minimum of 10 proctored examinations recommended by ACEP. Participants who choose to take the assessment, will be provided a competency checklist with log of the examinations successfully performed.

SPECIFIC GOALS: through the review of pre-workshop resources and the didactics held during the one-day workshop, we aim to provide participants with the following skills:

MOTOR SKILLS:

• Probe insertion
• Image acquisition

COGNITIVE SKILLS

• Understand principles of TEE operation: Transducer controls and understanding of different planes of movement necessary to generate images: anteflexion, retroflexion, rotation.
• Relevant cardiac anatomy
• Rationale and evidence for a focused TEE protocol
• Indications / applications for each view
  • Middle esophageal four chamber (ME 4C)
  • Transgastric mid short axis (TG Mid SAX)
  • Middle esophageal long axis (ME LAX)
  • Middle esophageal bicaval (ME Bicaval) 
• Image interpretation:
  • Identification of normal anatomy in all four basic views
  • Correlation with anatomy in TTE views
  • Identification of basic pathological conditions

At the end of the workshop, participants will be able to: acquire the focused TEE views and correctly identify cardiac anatomy and identify basic pathological conditions.

EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS:

A set of pre-workshop web-based and interactive materials will be made available for self-study of participants prior to their attendance to the workshop.  Brief (15-20 min) case-based lectures will be presented during the workshop.

COURSE VENUE

The workshop will be held in the state-of-the-art interactive learning facilities at the Jordan Center for Medical Education, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

SIMULATION EQUIPMENT

Teaching TEE hundreds of hours, we learnt that a key aspect for a highly efficient training experience, is to spend several hours of structured, guided practice on the high-fidelity simulator. We have partnered with HeartWorks to ensure participants are not just getting "a taste" of TEE, but actually becoming proficient at it. 

FACULTY

A group of multidisciplinary faculty from Emergency Medicine, Anesthesiology, Cardiology and Critical Care, who have significant clinical practice and teaching experience with this application.

Felipe Teran, MD - COURSE DIRECTOR EMERGENCY MEDICINE

Instructor of Emergency Medicine

Division of Emergency Ultrasound and Center for Resuscitation Science

Department of Emergency Medicine

Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

Abi kumaresan, MD

Assistant Professor of anesthesiology and critical care

Departments of cardiac Critical Care and cardiac anesthesiology

Cedars-sinai medical center, los angeles, CA

Ross Kessler, MD

Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine

Division of Clinical Ultrasound

University of Michigan

Marc Stone, MD          

Professor of Anesthesiology

Director, Fellowship in Cardiac Anesthesiology

Department of Anesthesiology

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Bret nelson, MD, FACEP

Professor of Emergency Medicine

Chief, Division of Emergency Ultrasound

Department of Emergency Medicine

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

kenton anderson, MD

Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine

Division of emergency Ultrasound

Department of  Emergency Medicine

stanford university  

James Horowitz, MD - COURSE DIRECTOR CARDIAC CRITICAL CARE

Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine

Director, Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit

Leon H. Charney Division of Cardiology

NYU Langone Health

Frances Mae West, MD, MS, FACP - COURSE DIRECTOR pulmonary  CRITICAL CARE

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Associate Fellowship Director

Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine

Thomas Jefferson University Hospital

Eugene Yuriditzky MD

Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine

Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit

Leon H. Charney Division of Cardiology

NYU Langone Health

Phillip Andrus, MD, FACEP

Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine

Division of Emergency Ultrasound

Department of Emergency Medicine

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Anthony J. Dean, MD, FACEP

Professor of Emergency Medicine and Emergency Medicine in Radiology

Director Division of Emergency Ultrasound

Department of Emergency Medicine

Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

We are happy to announce that HeartWorks will be providing special student licenses for the tEE e-learn interactive platform for all our attendees. This will allow you to learn the basics at your own speed in order to maximize your hands-on experience at the workshop.

You will get details regarding this license following registration