Interventional Cardiology Fellows Essentials

This course presents the core didactic content for the interventional year.

This course has 34 hours of content. 

Cath Lab Essentials

• Cardiogenic Shock
• Case Reviews With the Experts: What Would You Do? 
• Cath Lab Disasters: What To Do When Cases Go Bad
• Contemporary Intravenous Antiplatelet Strategies in PCI
• Complex Lesions: How To Treat Left Main, Multivessel, Bifurcation, and CTO Lesions
• ECMO in the Cardiac Cath Lab, A Case Series
• Gearing Up: Tools, Strategies, and Drugs for Optimal Intervention
• How to Optimally Perform Bifurcation PCI
• IABP Decoded: Myths, Management, and Troubleshooting Strategies
• Managing STEMI as a New Attending
• Significance of Calcium Modification: Why Does it Matter?
• Techniques To Deal With Challenging Lesions

Career Development

• A Career in Interventional Cardiology: How To Succeed and Stay Healthy
• Faculty Roundtable Meet & Greet
• Transitioning from Fellowship to Practice

Imaging and Physiology

• Considerations of Multimodality Cardiac Imaging
• Imaging Workshop: Introduction to Intravascular Imaging
• The CCTA + FFRCT Pathway: Using New Diagnostic Paradigms to Optimize Procedures
• The Calcium Conundrum: How OCT Imaging and Coronary Orbital Atherectomy Provide Solutions: Didactic and Hands-On 

Peripheral 

• A New Wave of Hypertension Treatment – The Power of Ultrasound Renal Denervation
• Changing the Paradigm for Pulmonary Embolism Treatment and ACS Thrombus Management
• Influencing VTE Treatment Decisions: Evidence Supporting Catheter-based Interventions
• Vascular and Endovascular Medicine for the New Attending: Case-Based Discussion
• What Role Does Physiology and Imaging Have in Coronary Interventions? Can you Carry Your Knowledge Into Peripheral Work?

Structural 

• Structural Heart Disease for the New Attending

Vascular Access and Closure

• Large Bore Access: Critical Skills for Interventional Fellows 
• Perclose Power Up