Trauma and Acute Care Ultrasound
Trauma and Acute Care Ultrasound is organized by Gulfcoast Ultrasound Institute (GCUS) Inc..
Date of Original Release: 12/21/2022
This edition is valid for credit through 12/21/2025
Description
Trauma and Acute Care Ultrasound Online Course is for emergency medicine, critical care, or point-of-care medical professionals and provides topics based on ACEP, WINFOCUS, and AAFP ultrasound practice guidelines. Taught by leading emergency medicine and critical care ultrasound expert faculty, this self-directed course contains eleven (11) modules with online video lectures, case presentations, and post-activity quizzes. Enrollment is valid for 12 months (365 days) and begins the moment the participant is enrolled. Extend your online course access another 3 months by coordinating a private hands-on workshop at the GCUS education facility, registration for a regularly scheduled GCUS scan workshop, or onsite education for groups of 5 or more participants.
Learning Objectives
- Demonstrate the participant's knowledge to better perform and/or interpret trauma ultrasound examinations.
- State the basic fundamentals of ultrasound physics and demonstrate appropriate optimization of system controls.
- Perform ultrasound evaluation of the trauma patient and pneumothorax (e-FAST).
- Demonstrate scan protocols for focused evaluation of the adult heart.
- State an algorithm for the use of bedside ultrasound for differential diagnosis of shock in a trauma patient.
- Recognize the sonographic appearance of individual nerves and list the advantages provided when ultrasound is used for performing regional nerve blocks.
- Perform ultrasound evaluation of the lung, ocular, soft-tissue, musculoskeletal, and fractures.
- Perform ultrasound-guided vascular access.
- Perform ultrasound-guided procedures for emergency and critical care applications: thoracentesis, paracentesis, pericardiocentesis, lumbar puncture, and endotracheal tube placement.
Topics
- Imaging Fundamentals: The Basics
- Abdominal Scanning Fundamentals
- Ultrasound in Trauma: FAST and E-FAST
- Thoracic Ultrasound: Basic and Advanced Techniques
- Focused Cardiac Ultrasound
- Rapid Ultrasound for Shock and Hypotension (RUSH)
- Ultrasound Guided Vascular Access
- Ultrasound Guided Procedures for Emergency and Critical Care Applications
- Ultrasound Guided Nerve Blocks for Emergency Medicine
- Advanced Ultrasound Applications: Soft-Tissue and MSK for Emergency Medicine
- Cases in Trauma Ultrasound
