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Cardiac Physiologist (specialist echocardiographer), Band 6 - Birmingham Children's Hospital (closing date 31st May 2013)

Chief Cardiac ClinicalPhysiologist, Band 7 - Aberdeen Royal Infirmary (closing date 19th June)

Chief Cardiac Physiologist in Echocardiography, Band 7, Harefield Hospital (closing 31st July)

Programme

The provisional programme can be downloaded from the link on the right.  Please note that sessions and timings are still subject to change.  Confirmed presenters will be added to the programme shortly.

Registration

The early bird rate is £115 per person per day. The last opportunity to register at the early bird rate is Sunday 30th June. The standard rate of £135 per day will begin on Monday 1st July.

Non BSE members are welcome to attend the meeting, however the non member rate is £200 per person per day. If you have colleagues wishing to attend who are not yet members of the Society, it will be cheaper for them to become a member before registering for the meeting.

Accommodation

Reservations Highway has negotiated rates as hotels and short stay apartments within walking distance of the Arena and Convention Centre.

Please use this link to view and book your accommodation.

If you have any questions or special requirements the team at Reservations Highway are available to help on 01423 525 577

Social Event

The Annual Dinner & Dance will take place at Anfield Football Stadium, home of Liverpool Football Club. 

Tickets are £38 per person and will include coach transfers from selected city centre hotels as well as a short tour of the clubhouse.  Places are limited and will be issued on a strictly first come, first served basis.  Due to the expected popularity of this evening, tickets are restricted to members and a maximum of one guest.

Fancy dress is not compulsory however the theme for the evening is A Question of Sport.

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You can visit the iTunes page here (for iPhone)

You can visit Google Play here (for Android)

You can visit the Blackberry App World here (for Blackberry Playbook)

You can visit SlideMe here (if your Android phone does not use Google Play)

EchoCalc is the official App of the British Society of Echocardiography (BSE) made freely available to download. It contains all of the BSE normal reference values for transthoracic echocardiography and other widely used reference values, including those for prosthetic aortic and mitral valves.

The app is FREE to download and is currently available for use on the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad.

The information is displayed in an easy-to-use format, and is supported by clear high quality diagrams.

EchoCalc also includes a series of key echocardiography calculators commonly used in clinical practice:

• Body Surface Area (BSA)
• LV diameter indexed for BSA
• LV diastolic and systolic volumes indexed for BSA
• LV mass indexed for BSA
• E/Em for estimation of PCWP and diastolic function
• LA volume
• Aortic regurgitation: regurgitant volume, regurgitant fraction and EROA by volumetric analysis
• Aortic stenosis: aortic valve area by continuity equation and velocity ratio
• Mitral regurgitation: regurgitant volume, regurgitant fraction and EROA by volumetric analysis
• Mitral regurgitation: regurgitant volume and EROA by PISA
• Mitral stenosis: mitral valve area by pressure half-time
• Mitral stenosis: mitral valve area by PISA
• Prosthetic aortic & mitral valves: dimensionless index, EOA and EOA indexed for BSA
• Aortic root dimension indexed for BSA, age and sex of patient

Below are screenshots of some of the pages:

Abstracts will be presented as poster presentations only on Friday 11th October.

The template for submissions is available below.

Both Technical and Scientific submissions are welcomed.  BSE members working in echocardiography who are participating in research are invited to submit Scientific or Technical Abstracts summarizing their project. We are particularly keen to receive submissions from echocardiographers or departments reflecting novel working practice, advances in echocardiography or interesting audits. The following rules should be noted:

• More than one submission may be entered from a department, as long as there is a distinct difference between each subject
• All submissions will be judged by a panel of experts
• The best submissions will be presented at the BSE Annual Conference on Friday 11th October in Liverpool; the Lead Author of the submitted abstract must be available to present on that date. The Lead Author will be asked to talk through their work live and then be available then answer questions.
• Lead authors of submissions accepted for presentation will have their registration fee for the day of presentation waived. Early bird fees will apply for Saturday 12th October if attending
• The Lead author will present the abstract for approximately 5 minutes followed by 5 minutes of audience questions.
• The presentations will be judged by an expert panel
• The winner will be invited to write a summary of their work for publication in ECHO, the journal of the BSE. Abstracts are summaries of work and may contain elements of work that have been/will be submitted to other international meetings (such as Euroecho) and other UK meetings.
• Based on the overall score (written abstract submission plus oral presentation), the British Society of Echocardiography Investigator of the Year (2013) will be awarded.

Submission template

The submission deadline is Friday 9th August 2013