Faculty
Course Director: T. Bruce Ferguson, M.D., East Carolina University
Faculty: Russel S. Ronson, M.D., Brookwood Medical Center
Faculty: Carmelo Otero, M.D., Northeast Methodist Hospital
Course Description
Attendees will become familiar with image assessment techniques in Intra-operative Fluorescence Vascular Angiography (IFVA); including sequence capture to assess vessel function; angiography interpretation, and significance of physiologic flow patterns and operative results.
Objectives
At the conclusion of the course, the participant will be better able to:
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Identify and eliminate technical issues with bypass grafts, including poorly functioning and occluded grafts
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Assess rate of fluorescence and correspond to blood flow in native and bypassed grafts
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Use qualitative grading scale to describe appearance of fluorescence in coronary beds, demonstrating perfusion to microvasculature
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Identify competitive flow, retrograde flow and other blood flow patterns and discuss correlations to graft function
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Compare pre/post visualization of circulation and native to bypass run off
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Describe how the combination of live and angiographic images are used in summarizing findings for procedure documentation
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