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)