Cardiac PET Imaging: When It’s the Right Test at the Right Time
Purpose and audience: This webinar (hosted by Cardiovascular Business) will show physicians and administrators how cardiac PET can add value to clinical practice, as well as patient and practice management.
Agenda:
- Myocardial blood flow assessment in detecting coronary artery disease
- Assessing viable myocardium in dysfunctional left ventricular regions, examining transplants and vasculopathy
- Detecting cardiac sarcoidosis and infections in implanted cardiac devices
- Avoiding unnecessary interventional procedures
Webinar Q&A:
Follow up audience Q&A, including answers on reimbursement, patient selection, timing for new agents on the horizon, and more, can be viewed here.
Advantages of PET Myocardial Imaging (PPTX)
Purpose and audience: This presentation is intended to be used by PET providers to educate referring cardiologists about PET in cardiac imaging, and to encourage appropriate utilization and patient access.
Agenda:
- Review the physics and hardware of cardiac PET and compare with SPECT
- Demonstrate and understand the profound differences between the capabilities of PET vs. SPECT
- Review currently available cardiac tracers
PET and Glucose Metabolism Imaging (PDF)
Purpose and audience: Supporting material for referring physicians from the Journal of Nuclear Cardiology, November/December 2006
Case Review for PET and SPECT (PPTX)
Purpose and audience: This presentation is intended to be used by PET providers to educate referring cardiologists about PET in cardiac imaging, and to encourage appropriate utilization and patient access.
Agenda:
- Present published data comparing the image quality and diagnostic accuracy of PET MPI to SPECT MPI in similarly matched patient types
- Report on Rb-82 PET MPI event-free survival and prognosis
- Demonstrate, through patient case studies, the effect of better image quality in the treatment of patients
- Gender bias
- BMI
- Multi-vessel disease (MVD)
Myocardial Viability with PET (PPTX)
Purpose and audience: This presentation is intended to be used by PET providers to educate referring cardiologists about PET in cardiac imaging, and to encourage appropriate utilization and patient access.
Agenda:
- Review the ischemic cascade in acute and chronic CAD
- Review various states of myocardial viability
- Review predictors of survival in patients with heart failure
- Evaluate how glucose metabolism may identify high risk patients
Patient Types for Cardiac PET (PPTX)
Purpose and audience: This presentation is intended to be used by PET providers to educate referring cardiologists about PET in cardiac imaging, and to encourage appropriate utilization and patient access.
Agenda:
- Review evidence indicating that specific patient types may benefit from a PET MPI study
- Pharmacologic stress patients
- Female patients
- Obese patients
Strategies for Reducing Radiation Exposure with Cardiac PET (PPTX)
Purpose and audience: This presentation is intended to be used by PET providers to educate referring cardiologists about PET in cardiac imaging, and to encourage appropriate utilization and patient access.
Agenda:
- Review collective exposure from medical imaging sources
- Discuss examples of typical effective doses from sources of radiation
- Review common cardiac imaging procedures and corresponding radiation exposure
- Review ASNC’s position statement algorithm designed to minimize radiation exposure
Standard Myocardial Perfusion and Cardiac FDG PET Protocols and Associated Patient Radiation Doses (PDF)
Purpose and audience: Supporting material for referring physicians from Image Wisely, November 2012
Proposed Algorithm for Maximal Reduction in Patient Radiation Exposure (PPTX)
Purpose and audience: Supporting material for referring physicians from the Journal of Nuclear Cardiology, May 2010
Additional Resources
ASNC Guidelines and Recommendations for Cardiac PET
For other DETAIL Kits from the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology, see below, or visit the ASNC website: http://www.asnc.org/