: The 2011 European Association of Cardiothoracic Anaesthesiologists (EACTA) Transoesophageal Echocardiography Accreditation Course, held in association with the EAE (European Association of Echocardiography), will take place in Ghent, Belgium from September 2011. The target audience for this course will be cardiovascular anaesthetists, intensivists, cardiologists, A+E specialists and cardiac surgeons from Germany, the UK, and mainland Europe