Department of Cardiology - Draft curriculum of the Fundamentals of Interventional Cardiology course

Proposed are 2 alternatives - a two-week course, and a four-week course:

The objective of the course is to make the doctors with cardiology specialization, or the doctors in training, familiar with the fundamentals of coronary medicine problems in interventional cardiology. The course consists of practical and theoretical parts. The theoretical parts are implemented in the form of seminars with usual multi-media tools. The practical part of the course will take place in the Catheterization Laboratory of the Cardiovascular Medicine Department at the Ostrava University Hospital.

The Catheterization Laboratory at Ostrava University Hospital (UHO) is a high-volume centre for coronary medicine, examining over 2,500 patients and executing around 1,200 coronary interventions annually.

The theoretical and practical parts are lectured by specialists in interventional cardiology licensed for invasive diagnostic cardiology and interventional cardiology by the Czech Society of Cardiology, and with experience from hospitals abroad. Each of the lecturing interventional cardiologists has executed more than 300 coronary interventions annually.

Two-week course alternative or four-week alternative:

Theoretical and practical part:

  • Introduction to the workplace, fundamentals of coronary medicine, coronary angiography vascular accesses, X-Ray examination, projections, protection against ionizing radiation.
  • Indicating a patient for a cardio-surgical solution (including the indication seminar at UHO). Principles and fundamentals of the coronary intervention techniques.
  • Acute coronary syndromes, medicament-based and interventional treatment principles.

 Morning:Afternoon:
MondayTheoretical part:
Introduction to the workplace, fundamentals of coronary medicine, coronary angiography vascular accesses, X-Ray examination, projections, protection against ionizing radiation.
Attendance in  catheterization laboratory
TuesdayAttendance in  catheterization laboratoryTheoretical part:
Questions & answers, discussing a case.
Coronary angiography examination complications and their solutions.
WednesdayTheoretical part:
Indicating a patient for a cardio-surgical solution (including the indication seminar at UHO)
Attendance in catheterization laboratory
ThursdayAttendance in  catheterization laboratoryTheoretical part:
Principles and fundamentals of the coronary intervention techniques
FridayAttendance in  catheterization laboratoryTheoretical part:
Fundamentals of the invasive hemodynamics
WeekendAttendance of the trainee at urgent interventions
MondayTheoretical Part:
Discussion of the weekend cases.
Acute coronary syndromes, medicament-based and interventional treatment principles.
Attendance in  catheterization laboratory
TuesdayAttendance in catheterization laboratory
WednesdayAttendance in  catheterization laboratoryTheoretical part:
Discussion of cases, acute coronary syndrome complications
ThursdayAttendance in  catheterization laboratory
FridayTheoretical part: Conclusions from the course, evaluation, questions & answers.

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Updated: 22. 01. 2018