First Trimester Echo & Early CHD Screening: Program

6th EARLY FETAL SCAN CONFERENCE

FIRST TRIMESTER ECHO & EARLY CHD SCREENING

23-24 September 2023

Dr Fred Ushakov

5th EFSCAN CONFERENCE 2022

4th EFSCAN CONFERENCE 2021

3rd EFSCAN CONFERENCE 2020

2nd EFSCAN CONFERENCE 2019

1st EFSCAN CONFERENCE 2018

DAY ONE:  Saturday 23rd September 2023

10:00 – 17:00

  • Invited Faculty to be confirmed soon

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

  • Invited Faculty to follow

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)