Welcome to the Echo Case of the Year Prize!

The purpose of this award is to:

  • Enhance clinical or academic skills by facilitating the learning of advanced echocardiography skills, techniques and modalities at a European centre leading in the field of echocardiography.
  • Ability to introduce new accurate and evidence-proven modalities for perform echocardiography in the ACTACC community.
  • Promoting new collaborations and partnerships between UK cardiothoracic centres and European centres to develop research and training initiatives in the field of echocardiography.
  • Benefit the wider ACTACC membership through shared learning.

  • The amount is usually awarded to a single applicant but may be split between more than one awardee at the Education Committee’s discretion.
  • The winner/s of the prize will be awarded a week long observership in a leading European echocardiography centre sponsored by Phillips.
  • Travel and accommodation will be funded by ACTACC.
  • There will be a daily learning schedule on the vast spectrum of echocardiography use in the operating theatre and in catheter lab.
  • This will aim to enrich the echocardiography knowledge and skills of the prize winner with the possibility to promote and implement new echocardiography modalities within the ACTACC community.

  • ACTACC members in good standing.
  • ACTACC Trainees or consultants within 3 years of their first appointment.

  • Patient’s (verbal or written) consent to the procedure and for use of anonymised images (for educational purposes).
  • Personally recorded and reported.
  • Image quality and dataset:
    • Presence of ECG trace.
    • Haemodynamic recording (BP pacing and vasoactive drugs).
    • Loops are optimised appropriately (depth, focus, gain, colour box, sector width).
    • Full dataset where possible – BSE dataset and appropriate use of colour flow doppler and spectral doppler.
  • Case Presentation:
    • Clinical case summary.
    • Impact echocardiography had on patient management and outcome.
    • Describe window and view (MO 4Ch, TG LV SAX etc.).
    • Description of findings.
    • Relevant guidelines or evidence to support the interpretation of the echocardiogram and management decisions.
    • Focus on what makes the case unique or particularly educational, ideally focussing on diagnostic uncertainty or challenges, or management impact rather than purely rare findings.
    • Send in as a PowerPoint slide presentation with narration.

Please click below to download a copy of the template.

download_for_offline Echo Case Of The Year Prize Powerpoint Template