Basic Paediatric Echocardiography

Course Overview

The Basic Paediatric Echocardiography (ECHO) is a 2 days face to face course that will be the foundation for your paediatric cardiology career. This course covers all primary applications of paediatric cardiac ultrasound. You will begin your journey learning about the origins of ultrasound and the relevant physics that guide image acquisition. Then you will gain knowledge about all applications of cardiac ultrasound which will help you to diagnose congenital and acquired heart diseases in children.

Next course is face to face on 28th February & 1st  March 2026 (Saturday & Sunday).

Each day you will have morning half lectures delivered by consultants with huge expertise in paediatric cardiology and echocardiogram. The second half of the day you will have hands-on experience doing practice on healthy children volunteers and cardiac cases with congenital heart conditions.

Target Audience

  • Paediatric, Neonatal, PICU and Emergency trainees and consultants

  • Adult Congenital Heart Disease Trainees

  • Advanced Nurse Practitioners and Physicians

  • Cardiac Ultra-sonographers

Course Objectives

  • Participants will familiarize with the relevant cardiac morphology.

  • Participants will learn the different echo windows and views.

  • Participants will achieve an understanding of the physics around good echo imaging.

  • Participants will understand the echo imaging of different heart defects.

  • Participants will perform supervised ECHO on babies and children.

  • Participants will be able to recognize a range of abnormal ECHOs.

Course Fee: £500 for 2 days

£250 for 1 day (If anyone wish to join partly)

Number of delegates limited to 20.

This activity applied for RCPCH CPD approval.

Payment by: BACS (Online) 
Account name: Paeds Cardio Courses
Account sort code: 40-08-68
Account Number: 30219797

IBAN for International bank transfer: GB41HBUK40086830219797

Registration Link: Basic Paediatric & Neonatal Echaocardiography Course Registration Form

Email the registration form and confirmation of payment to: info@paedscardiocourses.co.uk

Line art of boy lying on exam table as healthcare provider performs echocardiogram on him.  Woman is standing next to table.  SOURCE: Original art. Used in 89195.

Topics covered:

  1. Essential cardiac ultrasound Physics including Doppler

  2. An approach to segmental sequential analysis

  3. Echo Windows and views

  4. Echo assessment of PPHN & Fucntional assessment

  5. PDA assessment in the neonate

  6. Normal echo images album

  7. Echo assessment of CHD – Part I (Acyanotic Heart Diseases)

  8. Echo assessment of CHD – Part II (Cyanotic Heart Diseases)

  9. Abnormal echo image album

Course Faculties

Course Director

Dr Prakash Dey
Stoke Mandeville Hospital
Dr Prakash Dey Stoke Mandeville Hospital
Dr Prakash Dey, Paediatrician, Aylesbury
Dr P Venugopalan Paediatrician, Brighton University Hospital
Dr Satish Adwani, Paediatric Cardiologist, Oxford
Mahesh Nanjundappa Consultant King College London
Dr Narayana R Vayyeti Consultant Paediatrician Warrington Hospital
Dr Shakirah Balogun Consultant Paediatrician Stoke Mandeville Hospital Aylesbury
Sankar Narayanan Paediatrician West Hertfordshire NHS Trust
Dr Archana Verma Cardiology Reg Oxford

Venue: Stoke Mandeville Hospital Postgraduate Centre, Aylesbury HP21 9FY