09:00 – 09:10 | Introduction and Rationale of the Course

09:10 – 09:30 | Lecture 1: Principles of Fetal Cardiac Screening

Standard imaging planes: situs, four-chamber, outflow tracts, and three-vessel view
Use of color Doppler: technical aspects and optimization

09:30 – 10:00 | Simulation Session 1: Normal Fetal Heart

10:00 – 10:30 | Lecture 2: Common Signs of Anomalies Detectable on the Four-Chamber View

10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee Break

11:00 – 12:30 | Simulation Session 2: Anomalies Detectable on the Four-Chamber View

Abnormalities of dimension, position, and cardiac axis: dextrocardia, cardiomegaly, extreme levocardia
Univentricular heart: hypoplastic left heart syndrome, hypoplastic right heart syndrome
Septal defects: ventricular septal defect, complete atrioventricular septal defect
Abnormal chamber dimensions: atriomegaly, ventricular disproportion
Valvular anomalies: tricuspid dysplasia, critical aortic stenosis

12:30 – 13:00 | Lecture 3: Common Signs of Anomalies Detectable on the Outflow Tracts

13:00 – 14:00 | Lunch Break

14:00 – 15:30 | Simulation Session 3: Common Signs of Anomalies Detectable on the Outflow Tracts

15:30 – 16:00 | Lecture 4: Common Signs of Anomalies Detectable on the Three-Vessel and Trachea View

16:00 – 17:00 | Simulation Session 4: Common Signs of Anomalies Detectable on the Outflow Tracts

Abnormal dimensions of the aortic arch: Coarctation of the aorta
Abnormal position of the aortic arch: Right aortic arch
Abnormal number of vessels: Persistent superior vena cava, Transposition of the great arteries, Pulmonary atresia

17:00-17:30 | Final challenge: Is the Heart Normal or Abnormal?

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