Advanced Emergency Medicine Ultrasound (Sep 12 - 13, 2024)
Advanced Emergency Medicine Ultrasound is organized by Gulfcoast Ultrasound Institute (GCUS) Inc. and will be held from Sep 12 - 13, 2024 at Gulfcoast Ultrasound Institute, St. petersburg, Florida, United States of America.
Description:
The Advanced Emergency Medicine and Critical Care Ultrasound Live Training CME Course is designed to build on the knowledge base of experienced emergency medicine ultrasound professionals using advanced ACEP/WINFOCUS ultrasound topics. This course is taught by leading emergency medicine ultrasound experts and incorporates comprehensive lectures and interactive case presentations. Extensive hands-on skills training is provided featuring the industry's lowest 3:1 faculty-to-participant hands-on scan ratio with live models and phantoms.
For the most comprehensive Emergency Medicine Ultrasound continuing medical education, combine this program with the Introductory level course to augment knowledge/competence and scanning skills. A combined tuition discount is offered along with cost-savings associated with travel expenses.
Learning Objectives:
• Increase the participant’s knowledge to better perform and/or interpret Emergency and Critical Care ultrasound examinations.
• Identify Sonographic Characteristics Associated with Abdominal Sepsis involving the Hepatobiliary, Renal, And GI Systems.
• Outline indications and applications of color Doppler in the emergency and critical care setting.
• Perform ultrasound evaluation of the lung, ocular, soft-tissue, musculoskeletal, and bony cortices in the emergency department. (Optional EM track)
• Demonstrate the use of ultrasound guidance for peripheral vascular access.
• State principles of spectral and cardiac Doppler fundamentals and apply quantitative methods to evaluate acute valvular abnormalities (Optional critical care track).
• Recognize the sonographic appearance of individual nerves and list the advantages provided when ultrasound is used for performing regional nerve blocks. (Optional EM track)
• Evaluate fluid responsiveness in the critically ill patient.
• Perform testicular ultrasound and recognize acute abnormalities. (Optional EM track)
• Increase competence to incorporate protocols, scan techniques & interpretation criteria to improve diagnostic/treatment accuracy.
Topics:
• Advanced Ultrasound Evaluation of Shock
• Sonography in Source of Sepsis (Gallbladder, Biliary Tree, Appendix, Bowel Obstruction, Peritonitis & Abscess, Pyelonephritis, Pneumonia)
• Fluid Responsiveness in the Critically Ill
• Ultrasound Guided Peripheral Vascular Access: Challenges, Pitfalls, Tips & Tricks
• CRITICAL CARE TRACK:
• Cardiac Doppler & Focused Calculations
• Echo Assessment of Cardiomyopathies & Heart Failure
• MI & Complications
• Evaluation of the Right Heart
• EMERGENCY MEDICINE TRACK:
• Sonography of the Acute Scrotum
• Advanced EM Applications (Evaluation of Soft Tissue for Abscess, Foreign Body Detection, MSK Applications, Evaluation of Bony Cortices for Rapid Fracture Diagnoses/Post-Reduction Bony Alignment, Evaluation of the eye for Ocular Emergencies, and ET Placement/Verification)
• Nerve Blocks in the ED (Forearm, Truncal, Femoral, and Selected Ankle Blocks)