Skill Labs

This year, we have added a 4th track that is less didactic lecture and more hands-on skills experience. The Skills Labs will include cardiac auscultation, physical assessment simulation lab, remote monitoring options using implantable devices, and a cardiac anatomy lab that will allow the physical handling of diseased human hearts.

Skills Lab I: Basics of Heart Failure Assessment with SimMan
	Want to practice your assessment skills and develop new techniques for assessing a patient in heart failure? Come to the SimMan Heart Failure Lecture and Simulation class. The seminar will first begin with a discussion of the important assessment techniques needed to adequately assess a patient in heart failure. This will be followed by each individual having the opportunity to do a hands on assessment on SimMan. SimMan can talk, answer questions, have abnormal heart sounds and abnormal breath sounds as well as pedal edema and JVD. So come and practice your skills and let SimMan guide you through an individualized assessment. Class size is limited to 30 participants per session, so be sure to sign up early!
Skills Lab II: Heart Sounds
	Having trouble differentiating systolic murmurs from diastolic murmurs or a split S2 from a S3 or S4? Come to the Heart Sounds workshop and learn how to refine your auscultation techniques. Participants will be able to practice listening to systolic and diastolic murmurs as well as gallops and extra-cardiac sounds. In addition, the pathophysiology and the specific criteria for each abnormal heart sound will be presented. Because of the use of the individual electronic equipment, class size will be limited to 50 participants per session. Please be sure to sign up early for this class!
Skills Lab III: Using Devices to Manage Heart Failure
	Confused by the different parameters offered in implanted cardiac devices to monitor and manage heart failure? Baffled as to what the data means or why it is important? Interested in learning more? Then register to attend this interactive session and discover the excitement about remote monitoring. Following an introduction on the clinical evidence for and application of remote monitoring, education on the features available will be provided by the device manufacturers. In order to offer individualized attention and to address specific questions, class size will be limited to 40 per repeated session. Sign up early, so you don’t miss this one-of-a-kind opportunity!
Skills Lab IV: The Visible Heart Lab
	Have you ever wondered what an actual human heart looks like? Dr. Paul Iaizzo from the University of Minnesota will lead participants through an exploration of the human heart. This hands-on workshop will explore cardiac anatomy using human hearts, swine hearts, heart models, and the Atlas of Human Cardiac Anatomy. So slip on a pair of rubber gloves and enjoy this hour of cardiac pathology.