Echocardiography of the heart is one the most important diagnostic tools for the routine management of patients with cardiac disease. This holds true for patients with acute heart failure - for example acute myocardial infarction - as well as for patients with chronic heart failure such as cardiomyopathy or valvular heart diseases.
The primary goal of training in transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography is to provide basic and advanced technical skills to reliably and safely acquire high quality ultrasound imaging information. Equally important, however, is to provide the knowledge how to use this information correctly in the management of the patient with cardiac disease. Moreover, the experienced operator should be able to judge whether ultrasound imaging information is sufficient to manage the patient or has to be combined with other non-invasive imaging techniques or whether invasive procedures such as cardiac catherisation have to be utilised.
The Department of Cardiology at Munich University Hospital Großhadern is a high volume center in cardiac ultrasound imaging (11.000 transthoracic and 1300 transesophageal examinations per year) but also has a strong commitment to all other non-invasive and invasive procedures currently applied in cardiolgy. Therefore, highly experienced physicians will provide the full spectrum of today echocardiography in the context of modern cardiology in a comprehensive disease-orientated training program.
The training program consists of interactive theoretical lessons and hands-on practical sessions which cover
Structured interactive sessions on when and how to use echocardiographic information will be comparing its value to other non-invasive and invasive techniques for diagnosis of
