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AEPC - Heart beats for education

Teaching webinars on paediatric/congenital cardiology & cardiac surgery in collaboration with ERN GUARD-Heart

The AEPC, in collaboration with ERN GUARD-Heart, has initiated a series of teaching webinars on paediatric cardiology and cardiac surgery topics, serving towards preparation for the AEPC exam. The sessions will cover topics summarised in the AEPC Recommendations for Training in Paediatric and Congenital Cardiology" (CITY, 2020).

These webinars, planned through the Educational Committee and junior member representatives, take place on a biweekly basis on Wednesdays between 17:00-18.30 CET, and started on 7 December 2022.

The format of the webinars will generally consist of a case presentation, followed by 2 lectures, and will allow sufficient time for Q&A and interaction with the speakers.

We are now running our second series, and sessions are being planned until June 2024.

Registration is open for our April sessions

Registration is open to AEPC members & non-members. Upon registration you may select those webinars you want to attend. 


BASIC HAEMODYNAMICS

3 April 2024 17:00-18:30CEST

Moderators: TBD & Domenico Sirico (Padova, Italy)

  • Case presentation - Ronel Talker (London, UK)

  • Theoretical background - Nikolaus Haas (Munich, Germany)

    A - Pressures

    B - Saturations

    C - Flow and shunts

    D - Resistance

  • Case management - Ronel Talker (London, UK)
  • Discussion

ATRIOVENTRICULAR SEPTAL DEFECT (ASVD)

17 April 2024 17:00-18:30CEST

Moderators: Beatrice Bonello, Jan Marek & Dan Geer (London, UK)

  • Case presentation - Dan Geer (London, UK)
  • Unbalanced AVSDs - Beatrice Bonello (London, UK)
  • View from the surgeon, what is important? Branco Mimic (London, UK)
  • Discussion

AEPC - Heart beats for education - Recordings

Access to the recordings of previous sessions is available only to AEPC members through the AEPC members' area.


#1 ARRHYTHMIA

7 December 2022 17:00-18:30

Moderators: Roman Gebauer (Leipzig, Germany) & Guilherme Pedro Carvalho Lourenço (Lisbon, Portugal)

  • Clinical case of a wide QRS tachycardia - Guilherme Pedro Carvalho Lourenço (Lisbon, Portugal)
  • Wide QRS tachycardia: always ventricular? When & why - Nico Blom (Leiden, the Netherlands) 
  • ECG examples - from infants to teenagers - Juha-Matti Happonen (Helsinki, Finland)

#2 COARCTATION

21 December 2022 17:00-18:30

Moderators: AEPC Interventional working group Chair Regina Boekenkamp (Leiden, Netherlands) & AEPC Junior Councillor Enrico Piccinelli (Rome, Italy)

  • Case report - Sigitas Cesna (Vilnius, Lithuania)
  • Coarctation and presentation - Skaistė Sendžikaitė (Vilnius, Lithuania)
  • Treatment: intervention and surgery - Shakeel Qureshi (London, United Kingdom)

#3 MIS-C / KAWASAKI

11 January 2023 17:00-18:30

Moderators: Ornella Milanesi (Padova, Italy) & Skaistė Sendžikaitė (Vilnius, Lithuania)

  • Case report: A 9 year old boy with Appendicitis? André Jacob (Munich, Germany)
  • Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children: Recognition and treatment - Michael Carter (London, United Kingdom)
  • MIS-C versus KD: Similarities and differences - Jane Newburger (Boston, United States)

#4 FETAL CARDIOLOGY I

25 January 2023 17:00-18:30

Moderators: Olli Pitkanen (Helsinki, Finland) & Sophie Duignan (Dublin, Ireland)

  • Fetal cardiology from the perspective of a maternal fetal medicine expert - Monique Haak (Leiden, The Netherlands)
  • Full fetal echocardiography exam - what paediatric cardiologist should know? Joanna Dangel (Warsaw, Poland)
  • Case: Normal or abnormal - details are important - Agnieszka Grzyb (Warsaw, Poland)

#5 DOUBLE OUTLET RIGHT VENTRICLE (DORV)

8 February 2023 17:00-18:30

Moderators: Ornella Milanesi (Padova, Italy), Thushara Rodrigo (United Kingdom)

  • Anatomy of DORV, according to the position of the VSD - Adam Kolesnik (Warsaw, Poland)
  • Clinical presentation of DORV - Biagio Castaldi (Padova, Italy)
  • Surgical approach - René Prêtre (Lausanne, Switzerland) 

#6 TRANSPOSITION OF THE GREAT ARTERIES (TGA)

22 February 2023 17:00-18:30

Moderators: Ruth Heying (Leuven, Belgium) & Andrea Bueno (Barcelona, Spain)

  • Anatomy of TGA and associated malformations - Steve Sanders (Boston, United States)
  • Clinical presentation and neonatal management - Michal Jičínský (Prague, Czech Republic)
  • Surgical treatment - Bart Meyns (Leuven, Belgium)

#7 FETAL CARDIOLOGY II

8 March 2023, 17:00-18:30CET

Moderators: Olli Pitkänen-Argillander (Helsinki, Finland) & Agnieszka Grzyb (Warsaw, Poland)

  • Case: Fetal arrythmia quiz - Alexander Kovacevic (Heidelberg, Germany)
  • Fetal arrhythmia - How to diagnose and treat - Joanna Dangel (Warsaw, Poland)
  • Fetal echocardiography in congenital cardiac defects - What is important for perinatal management? Gurleen Sharland (London, United Kingdom)

#8 CONGENITALLY CORRECTED TRANSPOSITION OF THE GREAT ARTERIES (ccTGA)

22 March 2023, 17:00-18:30CET

Moderators: Ornella Milanesi (Padova, Italy) & Sara Moscatelli (London, United Kingdom)

  • Anatomy of ccTGA - Stephen Sanders (Boston, United States)
  • Case presentation - Jolanda Sabatino (Padova, Italy)
  • Surgical repair of ccTGA - Viktor Hraška (Milwaukee, United States) / Massimo Padalino (Padova, Italy) 

#9 PAEDIATRIC HEART FAILURE

5 April 2023, 17:00-18:30CEST

Moderators: Colin McMahon (Dublin, Ireland) & Giorgia Grutter (Rome, Italy)

  • Pathophysiology of heart failure: Which is the appropriate medical therapy based on the heart failure etiology? Dimpna C. Albert-Brotons (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia & Barcelona, Spain)
  • Case presentation: A child with heart failure; how to diagnose and treat? Roger Esmel  (Barcelona, Spain)
  • Advanced heart failure management: What can we do when medical treatment fails? Rachele Adorisio (Rome, Italy)

#10 INTENSIVE CARE

19 April 2023, 17:00-18:30CEST

Moderators: Joan Sanchez de Toledo (Barcelona, Spain) & Quentin Jordens (Leuven, Belgium)

  • Case presentation - Aarti Bavare (Houston, TX, United States)
  • Future of cardiac ICU - Paul Checchia (Houston, TX, United States) 
  • Imaging on ICU - Meryl Cohen (Philadelphia, PA, United States)

#11 EBSTEIN

3 May 2023, 17:00-18:30CEST

Moderators: Nico Blom (Leiden, Netherlands) & Anastasia Fotaki (London, United Kingdom)

  • Case report - Václav Chaloupecký jr. (Prague, Czech Republic)
  • Clinical presentation Ebstein anomaly - Prof. Václav Chaloupecký (Prague, Czech Republic)
  • Surgical treatment options - Rudolf Poruban (Prague, Czech Republic)

#12 MANAGING YOUR OWN CAREER

17 May 2023, 17:00-18:30CEST

Kathryn Bishop, Associate Fellow at Said Business School, University of Oxford

There is no such thing as a standard path to career success. You have your own definition of what success means to you, and you have to find your own route. Kathryn Bishop will talk about 9 different ideas to help you - and give you the chance to explore one of them yourself in a simple exercise. Something to take away and use as you manage your own career.


#13 FONTAN CIRCULATION & HYPOPLASTIC LEFT HEART SYNDROME (HLHS)

31 May 2023, 17:00-18:30CEST

Moderators: Sylvia Krupickova (London, United Kingdom) & Inga Voges (Kiel, Germany)

  • Case report - Tarique Hussain (Dallas, TX, United States)
  • Pulmonary vascular disease and the Fontan circulation - Anselm Uebing (Kiel, Germany)
  • CMR for single ventricle palliation - Gerald Greil (Dallas, TX, United States)

#14 TETRALOGY OF FALLOT (TOF)

14 June 2023, 17:00-18:30CEST

Moderator: Muhammad Najih (Specialist Registrar in Paediatric Cardiology, University Hospital Southampton, United Kingdom)

  • Tetralogy of Fallot: Integrated patient care pathway - Dr Tara Bharucha (AEPC Councillor, Lead Paediatric Cardiologist, University Hospital Southampton, United Kingdom)
    Mr Nicola Viola (Lead Congenital Cardiac Surgeon, University Hospital Southampton, United Kingdom)
    Dr Lindsay Smith (Lead Adult Congenital Cardiologist, University Hospital Southampton, United Kingdom)

#15 HEART UNIVERSITY - SHUNT LESIONS AND PULMONARY HYPERTENSION - WHEN TO INTERVENE?  

28 June 2023, 17:00-18:30CEST

Moderators: Dr. Karen Stout (Seattle, United States) & Dr. Werner Budts (Leuven, Belgium)

  • Illustrative case presentation - Dr. Alexander Van De Bruaene (Leuven, Belgium)
  • Interventional discussion panel - Dr. Yonatan Buber (Seattle, United States) & Dr. Ee Ling Heng (London, United Kingdom) 

RARE CARDIOMYOPATHIES IN CHILDREN

13 September 2023 17:00-18:30CEST

- Hosted by ERN GUARD-Heart -

Moderator: Georgia Sarquella, Brugada (Barcelona, Spain)

  • Cordula Wolf (Munich, Germany)
  • Giuseppe Limongelli (Naples, Italy)

FONTAN

27 September 2023 17:00-18:30CEST

Moderators: Ornella Milanesi (Padova, Italy) & Domenico Sirico (Padova, Italy)

  • Case report - Alessia Callegari (Switzerland)
  • Fontan pathophysiology - Marc Gewillig (Leuven, Belgium)
  • Fontan failure - Alexander Van de Bruaene (Leuven, Belgium)

RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE ACROSS THE AGE SPECTRUM: FROM CHILDHOOD TO ADULTS

11 October 2023 17:00-18:30CEST

Moderators: Jaspal Dua (Manchester, United Kingdom), S. Ramakrishnan (New Delhi, India) & Lisa Bianco (London, United Kingdom)

  • Case Report: A mitral valve mass in a patient with eosinophilia - Lamk Kadiyani (Senior Resident of Pediatric Cardiology, AIIMS, New Delhi, India)
  • Rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease - Prof. S Ramakrishnan (Professor of Cardiology, AIIMS, New Delhi, India)
  • Rheumatic valve disease: Surgical aspects - Prof. V Devagouru (Professor of Cardiothoracic & Vascular Surgery, AIIMS, New Delhi, India)

ANOMALIES OF THE CORONARY ARTERIES IN THE PAEDIATRIC AGE

25 October 2023 17:00-18:30CEST

Moderators: Ornella Milanesi (Padova, Italy) & Skaistė Sendžikaitė (Vilnius, Lithuania)

  • Case presentation & classification - Jolanda Sabatino (Padova, Italy)
  • Imaging - Biagio Castaldi (Padova, Italy)
  • Surgical repair - Massimo Padalino (Padova, Italy) 

ICU - Cardiopulmonary interactions

8 November 2023 17:00-18:30CET

Moderators: Nicole Sekarski (Lausanne, Switzerland) & Damien Schaffner (Lausanne, Switzerland)

  • Case presentations - Damien Schaffner (Lausanne, Switzerland)
  • Early extubation post cardiac surgery – move that ventilator? Joan Sanchez de Toledo (Barcelona, Spain)
  • Hemodymamic effects in the respiratory system: from physiology to clinical applications - Dimpna Calila Albert (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia & Barcelona, Spain)

Is this patient allowed to play his/her sports?

22 November 2023 17:00-18:30CET

- Hosted by ERN GUARD-Heart -

Moderators: Prof. dr. A.A.M. Wilde (Amsterdam, the Netherlands) & Ingmar Knobbe (Amsterdam, the Netherlands)

  • Dr. H.T. Jorstad (Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
  • Prof. G. Claessen (Hasselt, Belgium)

FETAL CARDIOLOGY

6 December 2023 17:00-18:30CEST

Moderators: Olli Pitkänen-Argillander (Helsinki, Finland) & Andreas Tulzer (Linz, Austria)

  • Case presentation - Ellen Vanhie (Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
  • Normal 4 chamber view - Annika Öhman (Gothenburg, Sweden)
  • Basic VSD, normal flows and changes in VSD, consequences - Sally-Ann Clur (Amsterdam, the Netherlands)

TREATING THE WHOLE CHILD

10 January 2024 17:00-18:30CET

Moderators: Edward Callus (San Donato, Italy) & Enrico Piccinelli (Rome, Italy)

  • Optimising brain development in congenital heart disease - Frank Casey (Belfast, United Kingdom)
  • Caring for teenagers with CHD - Katya de Groote (Ghent, Belgium)

THE BEST TREATMENT FOR LONG QT SYNDROME

24 January 2024 17:00-18:30CET

- Hosted by ERN GUARD-Heart -

Moderators: Peter J Schwartz (Milan, Italy) & Christian van der Werf (Amsterdam, the Netherlands)

  • Dr. Veronica Dusi (Turin, Italy) 
  • Dr. Christian van der Werf (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

CHALLENGES IN PAEDIATRIC HEART TRANSPLANTATION

7 February 2024 17:00-18:30CET

Moderators: Zdenka Reinhardt (UK) & Håkan Wåhlander (Sweden)

  • Case presentation - Dr Milind Chaudhari, Birmingham Children's Hospital, UK
  • EBV infection - Prof Andrew Gennery, Great North Children’s Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
  • PTLD - Dr Simon Bomken, Newcastle University, UK
  • Acute rejection - Prof Shriprasad R Deshpande, Children's National Hospital, The George Washington University

HOME-MONITORING AND CARDIAC DEVICES (ILR/PM/ICD)

21 February 2024 17:00-18:30CET

Moderators: Maria Miszczak-Knecht (Warsaw, Poland) & Guilherme Lourenço (Lisbon, Portugal)

  • Home monitoring alert: a clinical case - Tomasz Książczyk (Warsaw, Poland)
  • ILR home-monitoring: indications and diagnostic yield - Massimo Stefano Silvetti (Rome, Italy)
  • PM/ICD: the importance of being home-monitored - Ferran Roses Noguer (Barcelona, Spain)
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