Gulfcoast Trauma & Acute Care Sonography 2019
Overview
Trauma Ultrasound Online Course is for emergency medicine, critical care, or point-of-care medical professionals and provides topics based ACEP emergency ultrasound practice guidelines. Taught by leading emergency medicine ultrasound expert faculty. This self-directed course contains eight (8) modules, online video lectures, case presentations, and post-activity quizzes.
Topics
- maging Fundamentals
- Abdominal Scanning Fundamentals
- Ultrasound in Trauma (E-FAST)
- Focused Cardiac Ultrasound: 2D Cardiac Views, Differential Diagnosis of Shock in Trauma
- Obstructive
- Cardiogenic
- Hypovolemic
- Distributive
- Ultrasound-Guided Vascular Access
- Soft Tissue/MSK Ultrasound in Trauma
- Ultrasound-Guided Nerve Blocks
- Advanced Ultrasound-Guided Procedures
- Cases in Trauma
Objectives
- Demonstrate the participants 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 uses 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.
Audience
Physicians, PA’s, sonographers and other medical professionals who have little or no experience performing and/or interpreting EM/CCU ultrasound examinations for trauma applications. This program is a comprehensive online course that provides flexibility to complete the lectures at the learners’ convenience and without the need to travel. Physicians may include (but is not limited to) emergency medicine, critical care, internal medicine, family practice, and primary care.
Details : 8 Videos
Price : $ 60
