The ALL NEW Vascular Imaging Educators Workshop (VIEW) features twenty hours of exceptional content dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of vascular disease. Provided by the Society of Vascular Ultrasound through its 43rd Annual Conference, this activity delivers a complete educational experience for all vascular laboratory professionals. Worth 20 AMA PRA Category I Credits™, VIEW MEETS VASCULAR LAB CME REQUIREMENTS FOR ACCREDITATION.
SVU 43rd Annual Conference: Vascular Imaging Educators Workshop
| Session 1: Keynote Address | |
| Staying Together… Apart: Touching, Compassionate, Person-Centered Care In A Remote, No Touch, Impersonal World | Steve Talbot, RVT FSVU |
| Session 2: Lower Extremity Evaluation | |
| Importance of and How to Perform the History and Physical Examination in the Patient With Varicose Veins | John Carson, MD RPVI FACS |
| Optimizing the Patient and the Equipment to Maximize the Experience for the Sonographer | Rick Dubin, AS RVT RDMS |
| Reflux Evaluation of Lower Extremity Veins | Donna Kelly, RVT RPhS RDMS |
| Interesting and Unusual Lower Extremity Venous Case Review | Sara Skjonsberg, RVT RPhS |
| Panel Discussion | |
| Session 3: Joint AVLS/SVU Session | |
| Clinical Examination For the Venous Sonographer | Donna Kelly, RVT RPhS RDMS |
| Lymphedema, Lipedema, What is the Cause of This Swollen Limb? | Jessy Farris, MHS RVT RPhS |
| Non-Saphenous Sources of Reflux | Marresa Houle, BS RVT RPhS RDMS |
| Complicated Lower Extremity Venous Case Review | Sara Skjonsberg, RVT RPhS |
| Pelvic/Abdominal Venous Case Study | Mariah Elliott, BS RVT RPhS |
| Panel Discussion | |
| Session 4: Pelvic Venous Disorders | |
| How and When I Use Duplex Ultrasound: Clinical Signs and Symptoms and Diagnostic Findings That Should Prompt An Evaluation For Pelvic Venous Disorders | Mark Meissner, MD |
| Venous Duplex Ultrasound Protocols, Techniques and Tips for Evaluation for Pelvic Venous Disorders Part 1 | Sara Skjonsberg, RVT RPhS |
| Venous Duplex Ultrasound Protocols, Techniques and Tips for Evaluation for Pelvic Venous Disorders Part 2 | Mariah Elliott, BS RVT RPhS |
| Interesting and Unusual Venous Case Review for Pelvic Venous Disorders | Nicos Labropoulos, PhD MS BS RVT |
| Panel Discussion | |
| Session 5: Clash of the Titans Debates | |
| Reflux Testing Should Be Performed In The Standing Position Only Unless There is Some Strong Reason Not to | Nicos Labropoulos, PhD MS BS RVT |
| This is Overkill, Reversed Trendelenburg is Enough For Most Patients | Brian Sapp, RVT, RPhS |
| Reflux Testing Rebuttal and Discussion | |
| Post Ablation Evaluation Is A Must Have In Every Patient | John Carson, MD RPVI FACS |
| Rubbish, The Complications Are Low And The Cost Is High: Selective Evaluation is Better | Nicos Labropoulos, PhD MS BS RVT |
| Post Ablation Evaluation Rebuttal and Discussion | |
| Combined Panel Discussion | |
| Session 6: Cerebrovascular– Carotid Disease I | |
| An Incomplete History of ICA Stenosis Criteria | Laurence Needleman, MD |
| A Numerical Criterion Must Consider Measurement Error And Physiologic Variability | Sergio X Salles Cunha, PhD RVT FSVU |
| The Clinical Spectrum Of Carotid Artery Disease: What The Vascular Sonographer Should Know: History, Indications, Symptoms and Risk Factors and Why It Matters | Ann Marie Kupinski, PhD RVT FSVU |
| The Vertebral Artery Evaluation: More Than Just Flow Direction | Leslie Scoutt, MD FACR FAIUM |
| Current Therapies For Carotid Artery Disease | R. Eugene Zierler, MD RPVI |
| Session 7: Cerebrovascular– Carotid Disease II Case Based Learning | |
| The Effects Of The Cardiac Dysfunction on the Carotid Evaluation | Carol Miranda, RVT RDMS RDCS FSVU |
| Value Added Role of Transcranial Doppler in Patient with Carotid Artery Symptoms | Leni Karr, BA RVT |
| Ultrasound Findings Post TCAR And Other Carotid Interventions | Melissa Warren, RVT |
| Non-Atherosclerotic Carotid Pathology | Sandra Yesenko, DHSc MHS RVT RDMS |
| Carotid Ultrasound: Deconstructing Diagnostic Dilemmas | Leslie Scoutt, MD FACR FAIUM |
| Session 8: COVID Topics | |
| The Seattle and UW Vascular Laboratory Experience During the COVID-19 Pandemic | R. Eugene Zierler, MD RPVI |
| DVT Protocol Optimization to Minimize Healthcare Worker Exposure to COVID-19 | Anahita Dua, MD MS MBA RPVI CWSP |
| Primary Language Associated With Intubation and Death in COVID-19 Patients | Charles DeCarlo, MD |
| The Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Vascular Technologists and Vascular Lab Testing | Anita Harrington, MS RDMS RVT FSVU |
| Antigens and Antibodies: COVID Testing Lessons Learned | Ann Marie Kupinski, PhD RVT FSVU |
| Panel Discussion | |
| Session 9: Arterial I – Lower Extremity Peripheral Arterial Occlusive Disease | |
| History And Physical Assessment: A “Novel” Technique? | Ann Marie Kupinski, PhD RVT FSVU |
| Ankle Brachial Index and Other Physiologic Testing | Sergio X Salles Cunha, PhD RVT FSVU |
| Answering the Clinical Question | Leslie Wormely, AS AA RVT |
| Clinical Decision Making Based On Result Of Non-Invasive Testing | Riyad Karmy-Jones, MD |
| Post-Operative Surveillance: Who, How and When is Appropriate? | R. Eugene Zierler, MD RPVI |
| Panel Discussion | |
| Session 10: Arterial II – Wounds & Advanced Arterial Evaluation Related to CLTI | |
| The ABCs of Wound Characterization and Why It’s Important | John Carson, MD RPVI FACS |
| The Role of Physiologic Testing in the Setting of CLTI | Peta Tehan, MD |
| Novel Uses Of Arterial Duplex Ultrasound in Patients With CLTI and How the Physician Utilizes the Ultrasound Results in Operative Planning | Desarom Teso & Jill Sommerset |
| Arterial: The Human Angle | Jill Sommerset, BS RVT |
| Real Time Imaging With the Experts: Pedal Arch and Plantar Acceleration Time | Jill Sommerset, BS RVT |
| Panel Discussion | |
| Session 11: Abdominal Imaging Optimization, Screening and Surveillance | |
| AAA Screening: Who, Why and When | Laurence Needleman, MD |
| Ultrasound Imaging Protocol For AAA Surveillance | Melissa Warren, RVT |
| Case Based Learning: Complications and Interesting Ultrasound Findings Post EVAR Repair | Joseph Polak, MD MPH |
| Renal Artery Imaging | M. Robert DeJong, RVT RDCS RDMS FAIUM FSDMS |
| Abdominal Imaging -The Human Angle | Sara Skjonsberg, RVT RPhS |
| Panel Discussion | |
| Session 12: Hemodialysis Access: Pre-Op Planning to Post-Op Surveillance | |
| Preoperative Mapping For Dialysis Access | Patricia (Tish) Poe, BA RVT FSVU |
| How I Use Ultrasound Findings To Determine My Operative Plan | Beejay Feliciano, MD RPVI |
| When Access Compromise is Suspected – From the Dialysis Unit to the Vascular Lab: What Elevated Venous Pressures, Recirculation Times, Difficult Access Portends for the Vascular Sonographer | Patricia (Tish) Poe, BA RVT FSVU |
| Hemodialysis Access Interventions | Desarom Teso, MD RPVI FACS |
| Post-Operative Surveillance Duplex Ultrasound Protocols | Christina Fields, BS RVT RDMS RDCS FASE |
| Real Time Imaging With the Experts- Dialysis Access Surveillance | Christina Fields, BS RVT RDMS RDCS FASE |
| Panel Discussion | |
| Session 13: Equity, Diversity and Inclusion | |
| Addressing Diversity, Equity and Inclusion | David L. Dawson, MD RVT RPVI |
| A Personal Experience and Reflection | George Berdejo, BA RVT FSVU |
| Panel Discussion | |
| Session 14: Issues Related To Flow, Flow Dynamics, And Flow Waveform Analysis | |
| Waveform Analysis Taskforce Update | Esther S. H. Kim, MD RPVI |
| Dissecting The Arterial Waveform (Reversed Flow Component, Resistance, Upstroke) | Laurence Needleman, MD |
| Indirect Waveform Analysis: When NOT Seeing is Believing! | Sandra Yesenko, DHSc MHS RVT RDMS |
| Unusual Carotid Waveform Analysis | Sandra Yesenko, DHSc MHS RVT RDMS |
| Hemodialysis Access Flow Waveform Changes In Normal and Abnormal Conditions | Matthew Allen, MHA RVS |
| Audible Waveform Analysis | Natalia Fendrikova Mahlay, MD |
| Human Angle: Chronic Limb Threatening Ischemia | Leni Karr, BA RVT |
| Panel Discussion | |
| Session 15: Practice Enhancement- Creativity Is the New Productivity | |
| What Is Productive Capacity? How To Manage It and Why It Matters | Mason Ashcraft, AS RVT RDMS RDCS |
| Importance of the Physician-Sonographer Relationship | Dejah R. Judelson, MD RPVI |
| On Call in the Vascular Lab: A Necessary Evil or a Poor Use of Limited Resources | Laurence Needleman, MD |
| Artificial Intelligence in Vascular Sonography | Stanley Ort, BS RVT RDCS |
| Panel Discussion | |
| Session 16: Bonus Ergonomics Session | |
| Industry Standards for the Prevention of Work Related Musculoskeletal Disorders in Sonography | Matthew P. Hernandez, BS DPT CSCS |
| Ultrasound Ergonomics: How to Save Your Neck and Back and Prolong Your Career | Matthew P. Hernandez, BS DPT CSCS |
| Ergonomics Workshop | Matthew P. Hernandez, BS DPT CSCS |
Release date: February 15, 2021
Expiration date: February 14, 2024