How to Manage: Common Cardiac Problems 2025

How to Manage: Common Cardiac Problems is organized by Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) and will be held on Jan 22, 2025.

Description:
This one-day course will help you to recognise and manage some of the common cardiac problems experienced by children.

The course focuses on clinical scenarios such as assessing a sick baby for possible underlying cardiac problems, syncope in childhood and managing children with palpitations. Our expert faculty also explore key questions around the screening of children for cardiac problems.

Using lectures and workshops, the course will provide you with an understanding of paediatric ECGs, echocardiography, and heart murmurs.

Course aim:
This course will increase your skills and knowledge in managing common cardiac problems within paediatrics and provide delegates with the clinical skills to undertake paediatric ECG assessment.

Learning outcomes:
By the end of this course you will be able to:

• Explain key concepts of basic cardiology in paediatrics
• Recognise and manage cardiac diagnosis in an acutely unwell baby
• Develop a stepwise approach at evaluating paediatric ECG’s
• Identify cardiac conditions associated with genetic syndromes
• Understand the etiology and management of children with recurrent faints
• Initiate workup in a child with palpitations
• Develop an approach to suspecting, diagnosing and managing POTS