How to Manage: Common Cardiac Problems

What is the course about?

This a one-day course focusing on common cardiac problems encountered by any clinician involved in the care of children.

Congenital heart disease is one of the most common types of birth defect, affecting up to 8 in every 1,000 babies born in the UK. This one-day course will help you to recognise and manage some of the common heart problems experienced by children.

The course focuses on clinical scenarios such as assessing a sick baby for possible underlying cardiac problems, syncope and palpitations. It will also explore questions around the screening of children for Cardiac problems.

Using lectures and workshops, the course aims to provide basic understanding of paediatric ECGs, echocardiography and approach to a child with a heart murmur.

Target Audience

• Paediatric Trainees
• SAS doctors
• Consultant Paediatric Cardiologists/ General Consultant Paediatricians
• Paediatricians with an interest in Cardiac medicine
• AHP’s working in Paediatric Cardiology

Learning Aims, Objectives and Outcomes:

Aim:

This course will increase your skills and knowledge in managing common cardiac problems within paediatrics and provides delegates with the clinical skills to undertake paediatric ECG assessment.

Outcome:

By the end of this course you will be able to:

• Explain key concepts of basic cardiology in paediatrics
• Recognise and manage cardiac diagnosis in an acutely unwell baby
• Develop a stepwise approach at evaluating paediatric ECG’s
• Identify cardiac conditions associated with genetic syndromes
• Discuss the etiology and management of children with recurrent faints
• Clinically differentiate innocent and pathologic murmurs
• Initiate workup in a child with palpitations
• Identify standard echocardiographic views.

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