Session 1: Keynote Address | |
Staying Together… Apart: Touching, Compassionate, Person-Centered Care In A Remote, No Touch, Impersonal World | Steve Talbot, RVT FSVU |
Session 2: Lower Extremity Evaluation | |
Importance of and How to Perform the History and Physical Examination in the Patient With Varicose Veins | John Carson, MD RPVI FACS |
Optimizing the Patient and the Equipment to Maximize the Experience for the Sonographer | Rick Dubin, AS RVT RDMS |
Reflux Evaluation of Lower Extremity Veins | Donna Kelly, RVT RPhS RDMS |
Interesting and Unusual Lower Extremity Venous Case Review | Sara Skjonsberg, RVT RPhS |
Panel Discussion | |
Session 3: Joint AVLS/SVU Session | |
Clinical Examination For the Venous Sonographer | Donna Kelly, RVT RPhS RDMS |
Lymphedema, Lipedema, What is the Cause of This Swollen Limb? | Jessy Farris, MHS RVT RPhS |
Non-Saphenous Sources of Reflux | Marresa Houle, BS RVT RPhS RDMS |
Complicated Lower Extremity Venous Case Review | Sara Skjonsberg, RVT RPhS |
Pelvic/Abdominal Venous Case Study | Mariah Elliott, BS RVT RPhS |
Panel Discussion | |
Session 4: Pelvic Venous Disorders | |
How and When I Use Duplex Ultrasound: Clinical Signs and Symptoms and Diagnostic Findings That Should Prompt An Evaluation For Pelvic Venous Disorders | Mark Meissner, MD |
Venous Duplex Ultrasound Protocols, Techniques and Tips for Evaluation for Pelvic Venous Disorders Part 1 | Sara Skjonsberg, RVT RPhS |
Venous Duplex Ultrasound Protocols, Techniques and Tips for Evaluation for Pelvic Venous Disorders Part 2 | Mariah Elliott, BS RVT RPhS |
Interesting and Unusual Venous Case Review for Pelvic Venous Disorders | Nicos Labropoulos, PhD MS BS RVT |
Panel Discussion | |
Session 5: Clash of the Titans Debates | |
Reflux Testing Should Be Performed In The Standing Position Only Unless There is Some Strong Reason Not to | Nicos Labropoulos, PhD MS BS RVT |
This is Overkill, Reversed Trendelenburg is Enough For Most Patients | Brian Sapp, RVT, RPhS |
Reflux Testing Rebuttal and Discussion | |
Post Ablation Evaluation Is A Must Have In Every Patient | John Carson, MD RPVI FACS |
Rubbish, The Complications Are Low And The Cost Is High: Selective Evaluation is Better | Nicos Labropoulos, PhD MS BS RVT |
Post Ablation Evaluation Rebuttal and Discussion | |
Combined Panel Discussion | |
Session 6: Cerebrovascular– Carotid Disease I | |
An Incomplete History of ICA Stenosis Criteria | Laurence Needleman, MD |
A Numerical Criterion Must Consider Measurement Error And Physiologic Variability | Sergio X Salles Cunha, PhD RVT FSVU |
The Clinical Spectrum Of Carotid Artery Disease: What The Vascular Sonographer Should Know: History, Indications, Symptoms and Risk Factors and Why It Matters | Ann Marie Kupinski, PhD RVT FSVU |
The Vertebral Artery Evaluation: More Than Just Flow Direction | Leslie Scoutt, MD FACR FAIUM |
Current Therapies For Carotid Artery Disease | R. Eugene Zierler, MD RPVI |
Session 7: Cerebrovascular– Carotid Disease II Case Based Learning | |
The Effects Of The Cardiac Dysfunction on the Carotid Evaluation | Carol Miranda, RVT RDMS RDCS FSVU |
Value Added Role of Transcranial Doppler in Patient with Carotid Artery Symptoms | Leni Karr, BA RVT |
Ultrasound Findings Post TCAR And Other Carotid Interventions | Melissa Warren, RVT |
Non-Atherosclerotic Carotid Pathology | Sandra Yesenko, DHSc MHS RVT RDMS |
Carotid Ultrasound: Deconstructing Diagnostic Dilemmas | Leslie Scoutt, MD FACR FAIUM |
Session 8: COVID Topics | |
The Seattle and UW Vascular Laboratory Experience During the COVID-19 Pandemic | R. Eugene Zierler, MD RPVI |
DVT Protocol Optimization to Minimize Healthcare Worker Exposure to COVID-19 | Anahita Dua, MD MS MBA RPVI CWSP |
Primary Language Associated With Intubation and Death in COVID-19 Patients | Charles DeCarlo, MD |
The Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Vascular Technologists and Vascular Lab Testing | Anita Harrington, MS RDMS RVT FSVU |
Antigens and Antibodies: COVID Testing Lessons Learned | Ann Marie Kupinski, PhD RVT FSVU |
Panel Discussion | |
Session 9: Arterial I – Lower Extremity Peripheral Arterial Occlusive Disease | |
History And Physical Assessment: A “Novel” Technique? | Ann Marie Kupinski, PhD RVT FSVU |
Ankle Brachial Index and Other Physiologic Testing | Sergio X Salles Cunha, PhD RVT FSVU |
Answering the Clinical Question | Leslie Wormely, AS AA RVT |
Clinical Decision Making Based On Result Of Non-Invasive Testing | Riyad Karmy-Jones, MD |
Post-Operative Surveillance: Who, How and When is Appropriate? | R. Eugene Zierler, MD RPVI |
Panel Discussion | |
Session 10: Arterial II – Wounds & Advanced Arterial Evaluation Related to CLTI | |
The ABCs of Wound Characterization and Why It’s Important | John Carson, MD RPVI FACS |
The Role of Physiologic Testing in the Setting of CLTI | Peta Tehan, MD |
Novel Uses Of Arterial Duplex Ultrasound in Patients With CLTI and How the Physician Utilizes the Ultrasound Results in Operative Planning | Desarom Teso & Jill Sommerset |
Arterial: The Human Angle | Jill Sommerset, BS RVT |
Real Time Imaging With the Experts: Pedal Arch and Plantar Acceleration Time | Jill Sommerset, BS RVT |
Panel Discussion | |
Session 11: Abdominal Imaging Optimization, Screening and Surveillance | |
AAA Screening: Who, Why and When | Laurence Needleman, MD |
Ultrasound Imaging Protocol For AAA Surveillance | Melissa Warren, RVT |
Case Based Learning: Complications and Interesting Ultrasound Findings Post EVAR Repair | Joseph Polak, MD MPH |
Renal Artery Imaging | M. Robert DeJong, RVT RDCS RDMS FAIUM FSDMS |
Abdominal Imaging -The Human Angle | Sara Skjonsberg, RVT RPhS |
Panel Discussion | |
Session 12: Hemodialysis Access: Pre-Op Planning to Post-Op Surveillance | |
Preoperative Mapping For Dialysis Access | Patricia (Tish) Poe, BA RVT FSVU |
How I Use Ultrasound Findings To Determine My Operative Plan | Beejay Feliciano, MD RPVI |
When Access Compromise is Suspected – From the Dialysis Unit to the Vascular Lab: What Elevated Venous Pressures, Recirculation Times, Difficult Access Portends for the Vascular Sonographer | Patricia (Tish) Poe, BA RVT FSVU |
Hemodialysis Access Interventions | Desarom Teso, MD RPVI FACS |
Post-Operative Surveillance Duplex Ultrasound Protocols | Christina Fields, BS RVT RDMS RDCS FASE |
Real Time Imaging With the Experts- Dialysis Access Surveillance | Christina Fields, BS RVT RDMS RDCS FASE |
Panel Discussion | |
Session 13: Equity, Diversity and Inclusion | |
Addressing Diversity, Equity and Inclusion | David L. Dawson, MD RVT RPVI |
A Personal Experience and Reflection | George Berdejo, BA RVT FSVU |
Panel Discussion | |
Session 14: Issues Related To Flow, Flow Dynamics, And Flow Waveform Analysis | |
Waveform Analysis Taskforce Update | Esther S. H. Kim, MD RPVI |
Dissecting The Arterial Waveform (Reversed Flow Component, Resistance, Upstroke) | Laurence Needleman, MD |
Indirect Waveform Analysis: When NOT Seeing is Believing! | Sandra Yesenko, DHSc MHS RVT RDMS |
Unusual Carotid Waveform Analysis | Sandra Yesenko, DHSc MHS RVT RDMS |
Hemodialysis Access Flow Waveform Changes In Normal and Abnormal Conditions | Matthew Allen, MHA RVS |
Audible Waveform Analysis | Natalia Fendrikova Mahlay, MD |
Human Angle: Chronic Limb Threatening Ischemia | Leni Karr, BA RVT |
Panel Discussion | |
Session 15: Practice Enhancement- Creativity Is the New Productivity | |
What Is Productive Capacity? How To Manage It and Why It Matters | Mason Ashcraft, AS RVT RDMS RDCS |
Importance of the Physician-Sonographer Relationship | Dejah R. Judelson, MD RPVI |
On Call in the Vascular Lab: A Necessary Evil or a Poor Use of Limited Resources | Laurence Needleman, MD |
Artificial Intelligence in Vascular Sonography | Stanley Ort, BS RVT RDCS |
Panel Discussion | |
Session 16: Bonus Ergonomics Session | |
Industry Standards for the Prevention of Work Related Musculoskeletal Disorders in Sonography | Matthew P. Hernandez, BS DPT CSCS |
Ultrasound Ergonomics: How to Save Your Neck and Back and Prolong Your Career | Matthew P. Hernandez, BS DPT CSCS |
Ergonomics Workshop | Matthew P. Hernandez, BS DPT CSCS |
Release date: February 15, 2021
Expiration date: February 14, 2024