3-day perioperative workshop begins

Tribune News Service

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Chandigarh, March 3

The three-day 11th Annual Perioperative and Critical Care Echocardiography Workshop being organised by the Society of Transesophageal Echocardiography (STE) and the Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care began at the Advanced Cardiac Centre (ACC), PGI, here today. The workshop is being conducted by Prof GD Puri as course director and organising chairperson Dr Bhupesh Kumar as organising secretary. The programme started with a welcome address by Prof Puri.

The first day of the workshop was devoted to the sessions on basic echocardiography, demonstrations enabling the candidates to grasp the finer details about the handling of the echo machine and acquiring good-quality echo images, sessions on transthoracic echocardiography and role of echocardiography in the intensive care unit. The main feature of the day was the session on pig heart dissection to facilitate the learning of the anatomical correlations of the echocardiography images with various heart structures.

These events were conducted by various eminent national and international faculties. Dr Theresa A Tacy, director, Paediatric Echocardiography and Fetal Echocardiography, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, Stanford University Medical Center delivered the oration on “Innovations in echocardiography assessment of function.”

This annual workshop intends to deliver basic as well as advanced knowledge of echocardiography procedure for its routine use in the perioperative and intensive care setting. The workshop is being attended by around 100 delegates from all over India and abroad.