12th Ultrasound for Intensive Care

Fully booked! This course will run again on Monday 16 and Tuesday 17 October 2017

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Course fee:

£525 (inc VAT)
Course fee includes web access to the latest Course data and presentations
submitted by the faculty, lunch and refreshments and attendance certificate.

Accreditation:

Approved by RCoA for 12 CPD Credits [2C01, 3C00]

CUSIC Approved Course

FICE Approved Course

Full course programme

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About the Course:

• Provides the knowledge and skills to start integrating focused ultrasound and echo in to daily clinical practice — a foundation in the ultrasound skills needed for Intensive Care
• Suitable for Consultants, SASGs and advanced trainees in Intensive Care and Acute Medicine
• Interactive, focused lectures, with extensive use of clinical cases and video clips
• Practical sessions with supervised ‘hands-on’ scanning practice on models, patients (condition allowing) and phantoms
• Become familiar with the physics of ultrasound, learn how to set up the machines and obtain diagnostic quality images
• Understand training and accreditation requirements including logbook
• Lectures and practical sessions including:
  • Obtaining Optimal Images: Machine Set Up, Knobology and Techniques
  • Introduction to FAST and Renal Tract
  • Chest Ultrasound
  • Ultrasound to Guide Procedures
  • Focused Echo Pathology Recognition
  • TOE in ITU
  • Ultrasound in Shock
• Opportunities to practise on a variety of widely used US scanning machines
• Meets one of the initial requirements towards CUSIC accreditation
• Meets one of the initial requirements towards FICE accreditation

Pre-course preparation: delegates are given, in advance of the course, password-protected online access to reading material, including copies of lecture slides. There will be some mandatory pre-course reading – details to be forwarded.