Cleveland Clinic Ultrasound Course: Integrating POCUS Into Your Practice 2024
The Cleveland Clinic Ultrasound Course: Integrating POCUS Into Your Practice will provide physicians, nurses and physician assistants with foundational skills and state-of-the-art techniques for diagnosis and guiding procedures for point of care ultrasound. The lessons taught throughout this activity can be easily incorporated into current practices to immediately enhance patient care. More than 20 experts from Cleveland Clinic provide a didactic primer and workshops that will rapidly develop skills to maximize this increasingly important diagnostic and interventional tool.
Topics
| Session 1: Building a Point of Care Ultrasound Program | |
| Machine Choice, IT Configuration and EMR Workflows | Joshua M. Jacquet, MD |
| First 2 Years of Program Building: Experiences With Internal Medicine | Ammar Saati, MD, RPVI |
| 5 Years In: How to Build a Program in Family Medicine | John Hanicak, MD |
| Curriculum Design: Where Do I Start? | Brittney Rooney, MD |
| Questions & Answers | Multiple Faculty |
| Session 2: POCUS Quality Assurance, Logistics and Future | |
| Point of Care Ultrasound QA Process | Siddharth Dugar, MD |
| Credentialing and Privileging | Robert Stenberg, MD |
| Billing and Coding Point of Care Ultrasound | Courtney Smalley, MD |
| Artificial Intelligence in Point of Care Ultrasound | Joshua M. Jacquet, MD |
| Session 3: Basics of Ultrasound | |
| Probes & Planes/Artifacts & Beams | Shetal N. Shah, MD |
| Cardiovascular Basics Workshop | Courtney Smalley, MD |
| Thyroid & Neck Basics Workshop | Shetal N. Shah, MD |
| Session 4: Pumps and Pipes | |
| Evaluating the Pipes: Lower Extremity DVT and Aorta | Douglas E. Joseph, DO |
| DVT Workshop | Matthew Kostura, MD |
| Aorta Workshop | John Fowler, MD |
| Cardiac Ultrasound | Ben Alencherry, MD |
| Cardiac Workshop | Jennifer Borowski, RDCS |
| Session 5: FAST, Lung, RUSH and Shock | |
| Focussed Assessment With Sonography in Trauma | James Fitzgibbon, MD |
| FAST Workshop | James Fitzgibbon, MD |
| Lung Ultrasonography | Siddharth Dugar, MD |
| Lung Workshop | Siddharth Dugar, MD |
| POCUS Ultrasound to Assess Shock | Siddharth Dugar, MD |
| RUSH Exam | Marina Boushra, MD |
| Session 6: Putting Skills Into Practice 1 | |
| Case Intro | Courtney Smalley, MD |
| FAST Exam | Courtney Smalley, MD |
| Aorta Exam | Eric Brader, MD |
| IVC/SX Cardiac Exam | Eduardo Mireles-Cabodevila, MD |
| Lung/DVT Exam | Siddharth Dugar, MD |
| Cardiac Exam | Ben Alencherry, MD |
| Post Exam | Courtney Smalley, MD |
| Session 7: Basics of Procedural Ultrasound | |
| Room and Ultrasound Equipment | D. Alex Paratore, DO |
| Patient Considerations and Universal Protocol Safety Checklist | Shetal N. Shah, MD |
| Patient Monitoring, Post-Procedure Care and Complications | Lacey Hood, PA |
| Monitoring Workshop | Lacey Hood, PA |
| Session 8: Paracentesis, Thoracentesis and Soft Tissue Aspiration | |
| Ultrasound Guided Paracentesis and Thoracentesis | Eileen Nelson, APRN, CNP |
| Paracentesis Workshop | Eduardo Mireles-Cabodevila, MD |
| Thoracentesis Workshop | Eileen Nelson, APRN, CNP |
| Ultrasound Guided Soft Tissue Aspiration | D. Alex Paratore, DO |
| Ultrasound Guided Soft Tissue Aspiration Workshop | D. Alex Paratore, DO |
| Session 9: Peripheral Vascular and Central Venous Access | |
| Ultrasound Guided Peripheral Vascular Access and Demonstration | Aanchal Kapoor, MD, MEd |
| Central Venous Access Discussion and Demonstration | Michael Taylor, MD |
| Session 10: Putting Skills Into Practice 2 | |
| Venous Access Case Review | Lacey Hood, PA |
| Paracentesis/Thoracentesis Case Review | Shetal N. Shah, MD |
Release Date: 7/16/24
