Decription

This educational activity consists of a set of four talks addressing several aspects of imaging young patients. This activity gives the learner in depth insight into the unique challenges involved with imaging children: from technical to logistics of multi-disciplinary team, salient clinical pointers, understanding of quality improvement in congenital CMR imaging and strategies to address the challenges of imaging young patients.

Purpose/ Objective

Imaging of young patients is complicated, has its unique set of challenges, and requires a multi-disciplinary team to image young patients safely and successfully. Awareness of the needs and challenges of imaging young patients, knowledge of the strategies to address the above can help those develop safe and efficient practices, enable and empower multi-disciplinary teams to excel in the care of young patients and improve the quality of these processes.

Imaging young patients is often anxiety provoking for the CMR team in view of the challenges encountered at each stage of imaging such as getting good quality images, frequent need for anesthesia, congenital and pediatric specific pathology and knowledge of pediatric specific aspects during interpretation. Insight into the above and learning strategies to implement when imaging the young patients is vital for patient care and quality improvement. Following this activity, the CMR team will be well prepared to image young patients and addressing possible challenges that may be encountered, thus leading to improved image quality, patient care, and potentially decrease scan time.

PLANNING COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Divya Shakti, MD, MPH; Christopher Lam, MD

Presenters

• Romina Linton  
• Piers Barker  
• Ahmed Kharabish  
• Nadine Choueiter

The planners/faculty for this activity have no relevant relationships to disclose. 

Financial Disclosures

The planners and faculty for this activity did not have any relevant relationships to disclose, unless listed below:

Any resulting conflicts of interest were resolved prior to the start of the activity according to ACCME Criteria & Standards.

Disclosure of Commercial Support

SCMR received no funding to support this activity.

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• Imaging the Pediatric Patient. Speaker: Romina Linton  SCMR 2015
• Pediatric CMR: Non congenital paediatric imaging. Speaker: Piers Barker, SCMR 2017.
• Quality Improvement in congenital CMR imaging. Speaker: Nadine Choueiter, SCMR 2018.
• Congenital 2. Speaker: Ahmed Kharabish, SCMR 2018