This webinar introduces participants to the structure of congenital heart defects. Participants will be shown heart specimens ranging from ‘simple’ holes in the heart to more complex lesions. Although there are no clinical images, the purpose of this webinar is to enable participants to have a better overall understanding of congenital heart defects as encountered in the clinical setting.
Aims:
- Learn the structure of the normal heart as a basis for understanding heart defects.
- Learn how to analyse a malformed heart systematically
- Understand and differentiate between various types of defects
- At the end of the webinar, participants will have gained essential knowledge into the structure of heart defects to help them in their work.
Proposed dates
- 20 March 2025 - registrations now open
- 22 May 2025 - registrations now open
- 24 July 2025
- 11 September 2025
- 6 November 2025
Where
This course will be online only. The link to join the webinar will be made available nearer the time.
Fees
£100 (doctor)
£80 (physiologist)
£60 (Guy’s and St Thomas’ staff)
Who is it for?
- Cardiologists
- Echocardiologists
- Technicians
- Nurses.
RCP CPD credits have been allocated for this event.
Course organisers
- Professor Yen Ho, consultant cardiac morphologist, Royal Brompton and Harefield hospitals.
- Dr Karen McCarthy, co-lead cardiac morphology, senior researcher, Royal Brompton and Harefield hospitals.
Event programme
| 12.00 – 12.05 | Welcome & Quiz | |
| 12.05 – 12.20 | Normal anatomy, chamber recognition | Yen Ho |
| 12.20 – 12.40 | Segmental analysis of congenital heart defects | Yen Ho |
| 12.40 – 12.45 | Q&A | |
| 12.45 – 12.55 | Interatrial communications and atrial septal defects | Yen Ho |
| 12.55 – 13.10 | Ventricular septal defects | Yen Ho |
| 13.10 – 13.25 | Atrioventricular septal defects | Yen Ho |
| 13.25 – 13.30 | Q&A | |
| 13.30 – 13.40 | Break (& Quiz) | |
| 13.40 – 13.50 | Aortic stenosis, pulmonary stenosis | Karen McCarthy |
| 13.50 – 14.05 | Fallot’s tetralogy | Karen McCarthy |
| 14.05 – 14.10 | Q&A | |
| 14.10 – 14.25 | Complete transposition | Yen Ho |
| 14.25 – 14.45 | Physiologically univentricular hearts | Yen Ho |
| 14.45 – 15.00 | Q&A, Quiz review |
Contact
For more information about this course, or if you have any queries, please email morphology@rbht.nhs.uk