STE organize 10th Annual Perioperative and Critical Care Echocardiography Workshop

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Chandigarh 26^th February:- The Society of Transesophageal Echocardiography (STE) and the Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care is organizing the 10th Annual Perioperative and Critical Care Echocardiography Workshop from 26^th to 28^th February 2016 at the Advanced Cardiac Centre (ACC), PGI, Chandigarh. The workshop / conference was inaugurated by Sh. Vijay Kumar Dev ( IAS, Advisor to the U.T. Administrator) with traditional lamp lighting and Saraswati Vandana.

Prof. Yogesh Chawla, Director, PGI presided over the ceremony. Prof. G.D.Puri, Chairman ACC & President STE,welcomed the guests & delegates and gave overview of the workshop .The workshop is being attended by around 200 delegates from all over India and abroad.  Prof. V.K.Arya presented the Annual Report of Advanced Cardiac Centre. The Advanced Cardiac Centre boasts of around 1600 cases a year , which include around 600 paediatric cases. It has 4 fully equipped, state of the art operation theatres and 16 bedded ICU facility. The inauguration ceremony concluded with vote of thanks by Dr. Neeti Dogra, Max, Mohali, the organising secretary.

A porcine heart dissection was conducted where the delegates dissected the pig hearts for understanding the anatomy followed by Image plane workshop where each delegate was explained the anatomical correlates of each image plane. The first day included the sessions on basic echocardiography, live hands on streaming from the operation theatres enabling the candidates to grasp the finer details about the handling of the echo machine and acquiring good quality echo images, porcine heart dissection for better correlation of anatomy with transesophageal images, sessions on transthoracic echocardiography and role of echocardiography in the intensive care unit which were conducted by various eminent national and international faculties. These sessions were aimed at training the candidates about day to day uses of echocardiography in the clinical assessment and follow up of patients.

The technical sessions were followed by first oration of the Society of Transesophageal Echocardiography which was delivered by Prof Usha Kiran, Head Deptt. Of Cardiac Anaesthesia, AIIMS, New Delhi. She deliberated on the topic "Ten years of training in TEE: Indian Scenario". The oration was presided over by Prof. K.K. Talwar, ex Director PGI and currently medical advisor to Govt of Punjab and Prof. Inder Anand , Prof of Cardiology, University of Minnesota.