Echo Pediatric – Dr. Asmaa Salah (Live)
About Course
🔴 LIVE on the Medplus platform · 7 Lectures · Access for 6 months after course completion
Course Outline (PDF)
Course Overview
A comprehensive pediatric echocardiography course in 7 live lectures. You will learn the skills of answering Echo Pediatric course theory exam questions confidently, and adapt the knowledge you gain to the question frame and time limit of the exam setting.
We offer focused revision on each system in separate lectures, training on different types of questions with quizzes that mimic the real exam and feedback on your answers, continuous WhatsApp support by the instructors and 24-hour technical support.
What You Will Achieve
- Basics of pediatric echo: machine, clinically applied physics, echo anatomy, modalities and views
- Segmental approach to pediatric echo and chamber morphology
- Classification of congenital heart disease — acyanotic and cyanotic lesions
- Valvular diseases and the role of echo in NICU & PICU
- Complex CHD, single-ventricle varieties and echo reporting
- Clinical cases, spot diagnosis and MCQs
Course Outline
| Lecture | Main Topic | Key Points |
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| 1 | Basics of Pediatric Echo | How does the machine work? Clinically applied physics Echo anatomy Echo modalities and views How to get echo views |
| 2 | Segmental Approach | How to optimize the image Segmental approach for pediatric echo Normal heart anatomy Chamber morphology |
| 3 | Classification of CHD | Classification of CHD Acyanotic CHD (ASD, VSD, PDA, PAPVD, AP window, CoA, CAVC, PAVC) |
| 4 | Cyanotic CHD | Cyanotic heart disease (TOF, truncus, TGA, TAPVD, Ebstein anomaly) Cardiac function assessment |
| 5 | Valvular Diseases & Role of Echo in NICU & PICU | RVOT & LVOT lesions Mitral valve lesions Tricuspid valve lesions Role of echo in NICU and PICU (pulmonary hypertension, volume status, Kawasaki disease, myocarditis) |
| 6 | Complex CHD & Reporting | Complex heart diseases Single ventricle varieties Dextrocardia Myocardial heart disease How to write an echo report |
| 7 | Clinical | Cases and doctor assessment (spot diagnosis, certain view to get, MCQ) |
Your Instructor – Dr. Asmaa Salah Eldin
- Master’s degree in pediatric cardiology
- Assistant lecturer at the Pediatric Department, National Heart Institute
- Research assistant at Helmy Institute, Zewail University
- Pediatric cardiologist at Aswan Heart Center, Magdy Yacoub Foundation (2018–2021)
- Pediatric electrophysiology fellow at Aswan Heart Center, Magdy Yacoub Foundation (2020–2021)
Course Content
Lecture 1: Basics of Pediatric Echo
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How does the machine work?
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Clinically applied physics
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Echo anatomy
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Echo modalities and views
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How to get echo views