Echo-what? Getting to grips with echocardiography (4/4/25, 4/7/25, 17/10/25)

Veterinary Echocardiography CPD Course 2025

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Echo-what? Getting to grips with echocardiography

Course Overview: Want to get started with echocardiography but confounded by cardiac ultrasound? Then this course is here to help start you on your echo expeditions and improve your practical scanning ability.

Aimed at veterinary surgeons, this one-day course is a mixture of lectures, demonstrations and practical sessions with emphasis on getting as much hands-on time as possible. Throughout the day topics covered include a re-cap of ultrasound physics and machine setup, indications for echocardiography and the equipment needed. You will learn and practice the basic echocardiographic views and how to interpret them. We will also give an overview on doppler ultrasound and how it is used.

Course Content:

  • A refresher on basic ultrasound physics – how ultrasound works, what it can and cannot do and how to use the machine to optimise your cardiac images
  • Indications for echocardiography – when to use it and why
  • How to perform a basic, right-sided echo exam
  • An introduction to Doppler ultrasonography
  • Learn the normal appearance of the cardiac anatomy and how to spot pathological changes
  • Let’s get practical! – get stuck in scanning real dogs

Available Dates: 4/4/25 (Cumbernauld), 4/7/25 (Derby), 17/10/25 (Bath)

Timings: Arrive at 8:30AM for Tea and Coffee and we will start teaching at 9AM. The course aims to be finished by 4:30-5PM

Speaker: Chris Linney BVSc(Hons), Cert AVP (Veterinary Cardiology), DipECVIM, MRCVS, RCVS Recognised Specialist in Veterinary Cardiology, EBVS European Veterinary Specialist in Internal Medicine.

Delegates: Places on each practical training session are strictly limited to 12 delegates and will be further limited based upon the number of dogs available for training. Delegates are kindly requested to bring a dog with them for the duration of the course day, if possible. It is important that the dogs can be clipped as required for an abdominal ultrasound examination.

CPD Hours: 6 hours CPD

Every delegate who brings a dog that can be examined on the course day will be gifted a £50 Amazon Voucher.

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