TRANSCRANIAL DOPPLER COURSES SIMULATOR

The three-day course is held in Seattle Universityâ€™s Clinical Performance Lab, a state-of-the-art educational facility conveniently located at the acclaimed Swedish/Cherry Hill Hospital campus in Seattle WA. The result is a faculty with diverse interests and areas of specialization, a curriculum that is comprehensive and in-depth, and hands-on sessions with patient models that utilize a variety of TCD and imaging systems. Jointly sponsored by the Swedish Medical Center and Pacific Vascular, Inc., this comprehensive course utilizes the educational strengths of these two organizations, bolstered by the clinical expertise of the renowned Swedish Neuroscience Institute. Covered applications include: TCD in patients with extracranial occlusive disease, functional vasomotor reactivity testing, monitoring during carotid stenting and endarterectomy, diagnosis of intracranial stenosis and acute intracranial occlusion, diagnosis of vasospasm secondary to subarachnoid hemorrhage, evaluation of stroke risk in pediatric patients with Sickle Cell Disease, evaluation of patients suspected of cerebral circulatory arrest, detection and grading of patent foramen ovale, and more. Lectures will cover the various settings in which transcranial Doppler is performed including the diagnostic laboratory, emergency room, neurosurgical arena, and operating room. Learning will be accomplished through didactic sessions with faculty presenting in those areas of special interest and/or specialization. Interactive case studies will serve as a basis to further develop of interpretation skills. This knowledge will be reinforced through daily faculty-guided hands-on scanning sessions. In this course, attendees will learn the fundamentals of noninvasive Transcranial Doppler, skills for the interpretation and performance of diagnostic TCD and TCDI through didactic lectures.

In a matter of fact, TCD is your stethoscope to the brain.This course is designed for physicians, sonographers, technologists and other health care professionals seeking to acquire the specific skill sets and knowledge base required to perform and interpret Transcranial Doppler (TCD) and Transcranial Imaging (TCDI) studies. Also, the technique of color coated transcranial duplex made it possible to visualize the intracranial vessels and brain midline structures with a reliable index of accuracy and opened a wide door for new future research. It is widely used in assessing and following extra and intracranial vessels in a wide range of diseases, including stroke, subarachnoid hemorrhage, internal carotid artery stenosis, Moyamoya disease, sickle cell disease, mitochondrial cytopathies, arteriovenous malformations, patent foramen ovale and many others. TCD technology added a lot of information in understanding disease process affecting the intracranial vessels. Additional diagnostic criteria, such as flow direction, change or absence of signal, differences in velocity values on left and right sides, waveform shape, vasomotor reactivity, high intensity transient signal detection and others, are also used in interpretation. Blood flow velocity is calculated and used to make determinations about intracranial hemodynamics. TCD is used to assess blood flow velocity in the major basal intracranial arteries on a real time, beat-to-beat basis. The technique is very simple and has a high index of sensitivity and specifity.

Simply, Transcranial Doppler (TCD) is a non invasive pulse wave ultrasonography of the intracranial blood circulation and it is one of the most rapidly growing sciences in neurosonology over the last decade. Transcranial Doppler, Your Stethoscope to the Brain. Part 2: TCD Clinical Applications by Dr.Waleed A Khoja

TRANSCRANIAL DOPPLER COURSES SIMULATOR

Part 1: TCD Principles and Simulator by Dr.Waleed A Khoja This is a recording of the previously conducted live Course by Dr.Waleed A Khoja

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