VIENNA

The first course dedicated to the practice of resuscitative TEE/TOE

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

Educational Objectives

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

• 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 VENUEs

do you hate those courses in a classroom or the basement of the hospital? we hate them too. The resuscitative tee workshop is held in hand picked, state-of-the-art interactive learning facilities.

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, CARDIAC, PULMONARY AND SURGICAL/TRAUMA CRITICAL CARE, WHO HAVE SIGNIFICANT CLINICAL PRACTICE AND TEACHING EXPERIENCE WITH THIS APPLICATION. EACH WORKSHOP HAS 8-10 FACULTY FOR 20 PARTICIPANTS. OUR FACULTY INCLUDE MANY OF THE WORLD LEADERS OF THIS EMERGING MODALITY WHO ARE JOINED BY HAND-PICKED LOCAL EXPERTS WITH SIGNIFICANT EXPERIENCE IN THE USE OF TEE/TOE IN ACUTE CARE AND PERIOPERATIVE ENVIRONMENTS.