CARDIAC | Right approach and tool for that uncommon scan
Tracks
209 | Cardiac GE Healthcare
Sunday, June 15, 2025 |
9:00 AM - 10:20 AM |
209 | Cardiac GE Healthcare |
Speaker
Chee Lim Liew
Live scanning - performing a focused cardiac ultrasound during an emergency
10:00 AM - 10:20 AMBiography
Mr David Scicluna
Royal Children Hospital, Victoria
Segmental approach to assessing adult CHD (post-repair)
9:00 AM - 9:20 AMBiography
Dr Rebecca Perry
Program Director
University of South Australia
Gestational diabetes in pregnancy - how can strain help?
9:20 AM - 9:40 AMAbstract
Strain imaging of the left ventricle can assist in detection of subclinical myocardial abnormalities but can this assist us in patients with gestational diabetes?
Biography
Dr Rebecca Perry FASA |
University of South Australia
Dr Rebecca Perry is the Program Director for Medical Sonography at the University of South Australia and has an honorary position as a post-doctoral researcher in echocardiography at Flinders Medical Centre. She has been a cardiac sonographer since 1998 and has been involved in research and advanced echocardiographic techniques since 2003. She has extensive experience in advanced echocardiographic techniques such as strain and 3-D echocardiography. In 2023 she won the prestigious Australasian Sonographers Association, Pru Pratten Memorial Lifetime Achievement Award which recognises and honours a sonographer who has made a significant contribution to the profession, and the ASA, over the course of their career. She completed her PhD in 2013 and her Post-Doctoral Fellowship with the Heart Foundation through Flinders University in 2018. She is passionate about education and excellence in echocardiography and advanced imaging techniques.
Ms Louise Smith
Nepean Hospital Intensive Care Unit
Scanning in the ICU and the critically ill
9:40 AM - 10:00 AMBiography
