First Trimester Echo & Early CHD Screening: Program
6th EARLY FETAL SCAN CONFERENCE
FIRST TRIMESTER ECHO & EARLY CHD SCREENING
23-24 September 2023
Program Director Dr Fred Ushakov
Created and delivered by
Dr Fred Ushakov
International Lecturer in Ultrasound and Fetal Medicine
Specialist in Fetal Medicine, University College London Hospital (UCLH), UK
Honorary Professor, University College London (UCL)
The program is based on extensive clinical experience, comprehensive research of current literature and evidence based knowledge.
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DAY ONE: Saturday 23rd September 2023
11:00 – 17:00
Implementation of CHD screening in the First Trimester: How to do this?
Preliminary Program:
- 12 reasons why screening for CHD at 10-11 or 12-14 weeks is preferable to at 20 weeks
- First-trimester screening for CHD and Early Echocardiography: what is the difference?
- Role of fetal cardiologist in early detection of CHD: working together
- Meta-analysis and systematic review: Performance of CHD screening (2022)
- FMF publications on CHD screening
- Updated ISUOG Practice Guidelines: Performance of 11-14-week ultrasound scan (2023)
- Early screening for CHD and referral pathways
- 10 weeks CHD screening: New approach and future pathways
- SlowflowHD: Revolution in Doppler imaging
- ISUOG guidelines on ultrasound safety: urgent need for correction
- NT, DV, TR and other surrogate markers: their role in CHD screening
- The technique of cardiac examination at 10-11 and 12-14 weeks
- Transabdominal and transvaginal cardiac scan
- Main limitations of cardiac scan at 10-14 weeks
- Human genetic and early detection of CHD
- 22q11 deletion screening
- Role of exome in CHD
- Management of pregnancy with early diagnosis of CHD
- 4 clinical scenarios of CHD presentation
- How to implement 1st trimester CHD screening in the UK and worldwide?
Q&A
Answers to questions (Dr Fred Ushakov)
Conference Program
***Please note that this program is subject to change without notice (Conference Organising Committee EFScan 2023)
DAY TWO: Sunday 24th September 2023
10:00 – 16:00
All CDH detectable at 10-14 weeks
Preliminary Program:
- Common patterns of CHD in the 1st trimester
- Missed TGA in the first trimester: Lessons from mistakes
- Common CHD: All the spectrum
- Rare CHD: Dozens of unusual cardiac anomalies
- CHD detectable only in the 1st trimester
Q&A
Answers to questions
Conference Program
***Please note that this program is subject to change without notice (Conference Organising Committee EFScan 2023)
Dr Fred Ushakov