Archives for January 2020

Providing outstanding and accessible educational opportunities to our members and the entire cardiovascular ultrasound community is core to ASE’s mission. Echo Access™, A Virtual Experience, is an innovative way for ASE to widen the reach of education. There are many benefits to attending an educational course in person like networking with peers and expert faculty, social events, and focused time for learning in a beautiful location, but we realize traveling is not always convenient for everyone.

On March 6-8, 2020, ASE will present the inaugural Echo Access, A Virtual Experience featuring content from ASE’s State-of-the-Art Echocardiography live course. A maximum of 12 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ will be available for attending this three-day virtual event. Streaming content will be approximately four hours each day from 3:00 – 7:00 PM Eastern Time. Some faculty will be available during these presentations to answer questions live. Registration also includes access to this content for 30 days. Participants can choose one of two virtual experience paths. For more information and to register, click here.

Plan to join Patricia A. Pellikka, MD, FASE, ASE Past President, for a LIVE webinar on Wednesday, February 5, 1:00 – 2:00 PM EST as she reviews the ASE Guidelines for Performance, Interpretation, and Application of Stress Echocardiography in Ischemic Heart Disease. Click here to find out when the webinar is taking place in your time zone.

At the end of this webinar, the viewer will be better able to:

• Understand the current recommended methods for performing exercise and pharmacologic stress echocardiography
• Characterize the stress modality specific differences in left ventricular responses in the presence and absence of ischemia
• Interpret examples of stress echocardiography for assessment of ischemia in common clinical settings
• Appreciate the role of quantitative regional assessment, including deformation imaging, in stress echocardiography
• Understand the indications for stress echocardiography, including its application in children and young adults

Registration is FREE for ASE members and $25 for nonmembers. You can claim 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ after the webinar is recorded and posted.

Interested in this topic, but the scheduled time is not convenient for you? Register for the live webinar and an email will be sent to you once the recorded webinar is available in your account on ASEUniversity.

The American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (ASNC) and the American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) are pleased to announce that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services have approved the ImageGuide Registry® as a Qualified Clinical Data Registry (QCDR) for 2020. The designation as a QCDR allows the ImageGuide Registry to submit provider data to meet reporting requirements under the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) for the 2020 reporting year. Successful participation in MIPS will allow physicians to avoid an automatic negative payment adjustment on all Medicare receivables. Read more here.

CASE, ASE’s online, open access case reports journal, kicks off its fourth year of publishing with the debut of FREE CME for ASE members. Each activity includes four articles published in CASE, and offers 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. ASE and CASE’s Editorial Team are excited to announce that Andy Pellett, PhD, RCS, RDCS, FASE, from Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, is CASE’s CME Editor.

The four articles in this initial CME opportunity are all related to pediatric and congenital heart disease. These activities include:

• A Case of Full-Term Infant With Symptomatic Patent Ductus Arteriosus Successfully Closed With Indomethacin Treatment: Consideration of Mechanism for Ductus Arteriosus Closure
• Giant Thrombotic Right Coronary Aneurysm in an Infant with Undiagnosed Incomplete Kawasaki Disease and Rapidly Progressive Cardiovascular Collapse
• Isolated Endocarditis of Native Pulmonary Valve in a Pediatric Patient: The Unusual within the Unusual
• Prenatal Detection of Anomalous Right Coronary Artery with an Interarterial Course

Interact with your colleagues in our next Twitter Journal Club on Tuesday, January 21, from 8:00 – 9:00 PM US EST. January’s Twitter Journal Club will review the case, Percutaneous Repair of Severe Eccentric MR Due to Medial Commissural Flail: Challenges for Imaging and Intervention. Co-Author Stephen H. Little, MD, FASE as well as Nadeen Faza, MD, will join moderator, Ritu Thamman, MD, FASE, during this month’s Journal club.

NEW! As an ASE member, you can now receive FREE CME for participating. Register here BEFORE the Twitter Journal Club to guarantee your free CME.

Follow @ASE360, and please plan to join ASE’s journal club. Be sure to use the hashtag #ASEchoJC for all tweets. Click here to find out when the Twitter Journal Club is taking place in your timezone. If you have any questions on this event, please contact us here