by Associate Prof. Dr. Yang Faridah Abdul Aziz
The cardiac workshop had twenty-seven workstations available for the participants.
These workstations were provided by GE Healthcare (2 workstations), Philips Healthcare (10 workstations), Siemens Healthcare (5 workstations) and Toshiba (10 workstations). The workshop opened with a 15-minute presentation from GE Healthcare, Philips Healthcare, Siemens Healthcare and Toshiba respectively entitled “Technology Updates in Cardiac Imaging”.
The workstations were divided into CT and MRI stations which were pre-loaded with cardiac CTAs, conventional angiograms and cardiac MRI cases. These cases were further divided into Basic CTA (11 cases), Advanced CTA (22 cases), Basic MRI (11 cases) and Advanced MRI (30 cases). Booklets describing these cases were provided for the participants for easy reference.
Moderators for this workshop were Amran Abdul Rahman (KPJ AmpangPutri), Norzailin Abu Bakar (HUKM), Suzana Ab Hamid (UPM), Yang Faridah Abdul Aziz (UMMC) and Yusri Mohammad (Serdang Hospital). The workshop ended at 5.15pm.
A small number of these workstations (with the pre-loaded cases) were also transferred to the GE Healthcare, Philips Healthcare and Toshiba booths for the participants to view at their own leisure.