Course Faculty

Professor Joseph Selvanayagam,  Adelaide, South Australia

Associate Professor Sujith Seneviratne, Melbourne, Victoria

Dr Jonny Younger, Brisbane, Queensland

Dr Sam Lehman, Adelaide, South Australia

Course Overview

This teaching course is designed to enhance clinical practice skills by providing intense practical training in interpreting coronary CTA examinations under the supervision of teaching faculty.  Mentored case review sessions will be available to allow course attendees to view teaching cases and cases viewed can be documented to form part of SCCT requirements for Level 2 training.  Many cases include coronary catheter angiography correlation.  The course lectures will also cover the more practical and technical considerations for CT coronary angiography.

Certificate of Proficiency

Programme

THURSDAY 14^th June 2012

CT Coronary Angiography Teaching Course

Session 1:

8.00 am     Registration

8:30 am     Welcome- Joseph Selvanayagam

8:35 am     Current status of cardiac CT  – Sujith Seneviratne

8:55 am     How to report CT coronary angiography – Sujith Seneviratne

9:15 am     Lower radiation dose in cardiac CT in everyday practice – Sam Lehman

9:35 am     How to optimize image quality in difficult situations – Sam Lehman

9.55 am     Questions and answers

10.10 am        Coffee Break

Session 2:

10:30 am      12 Cases (coronary and non-coronary pathology) Sujith Seneviratne

12.45 pm        Lunch

Session 3:

1.30 pm     How to perform CT myocardial perfusion and viability (basics and scanning protocol) – Sujith Seneviratne

1.50 pm     Imaging of left atrium, pulmonary and cardiac veins – Sam Lehman

2.10 pm     Functional significance of stenosis as assessed by CT – Sam Lehman

2.30 pm     Questions and answers

2.45 pm     Afternoon Tea

Session 4:

3.00 pm     Reporting cases (12 cases on coronary and non-cardiac cases with correlations with other modalities) –

                  Sam Lehman

5.15 pm     Finish

FRIDAY 15^th June 2012

CT Coronary Angiography Teaching Course

Session 5:

8.30 am      CT assessment of coronary stenosis correlation with catheterisation and

                   how to avoid common mistakes – John Younger

8:55 am     How to deal with the challenge of coronary calcium and reporting scans –     TBA

9:15 am     Coronary calcium scoring. How useful is it clinically? – John Younger

9:35 am     MDCT of cardiac valves – TBA

10.00 am   Coffee Break

Session 6:

10:20 am      Masterclass case studies (12 cases) John  Younger

12.45 pm        Lunch

Session 7:

1.30 pm     CT for planning complex PCI procedures including CTO – John Younger

1.50 pm     Imaging of left atrium, pulmonary and cardiac veins, poor r-wave ablation and CRT – John Younger

2.10 pm     Plaque progression and regression by CT coronary angiography – Sam Lehman

2.30 pm     Troubleshooting coronary stenosis – false negatives and false positives – TBA

2.50 pm     Question and answers

3.00           Afternoon Tea

Session 8:

3.15 pm     Supervised case review (12 cases on coronary, non-coronary and non-cardiac cases      with correlations with other modalities) – TBA

5.15 pm     Finish