Saturday 23 September: 09:00-17:00
Course Directors
- Beatrice Hoffmann (USA)
- Jim Connolly (UK)
Faculty
- Zeki Atesli (UK)
- Tyler Beals (USA)
- Pete Croft (USA)
- Rip Gangahar (UK)
- Katarzyna Hampton (USA)
- Hani Hariri (Saudi Arabia)
- Elsie Hart (USA)
- Robert Jarman (UK)
- Christine Lee (USA)
- Nicholas Lim (Ireland)
- Najib Nasrallah (Israel)
- Farooq Pasha (Saudi Arabia)
- Effie Polyzogopoulou (Greece)
- Gregor Prosen (Slovenia)
- Hannelore Raemen (Belgium)
- Arthur Rosendall (The Netherlands)
- Omer Salt (Turkey)
- Prem Sukul (The Netherlands)
- Erol Erden Unluer (Turkey)
- Philip Verdonck (Belgium)
- Joe Wood (USA)
Participants
The course is designed for 44 participants (EP, emergency medicine PA’s and nurses).
Course description & learning objectives
Image acquisition & instrumentation:
- Enhance your basic understanding of the basic principles of ultrasound.
- Apply these principles to the reduction of common artifacts and improvement of high quality diagnostic ultrasound images.
- Understand the relationship between transducer position and image orientation.
- Demonstrate the basic operator controls on the ultrasound system required for image acquisition.
eFast
1. Understand the surface landmarks for appropriate transducer positioning to perform the Extended Focused Assessment With Sonography for Trauma (eFAST) examination.
2. Understand the sonographic landmarks and anatomical relationships of the heart, liver, spleen and bladder as they relate to the FAST examination.
3. Demonstrate the ability to identify and visualize the areas of potential intra-abdominal and thoracic spaces for free fluid to collect or pneumothorax.
4. Understand the sonographic findings and pitfalls for identifying life-threatening trauma conditions such as cardiac tamponade, hemo/pneumothorax and intra-abdominal hemorrhage.
Vascular Access
1. Understand the sonographic landmarks and anatomical relationships as they relate to the vasculature of the neck, upper extremity and groin.
2. Acquire and interpret sonographic images of the internal jugular, femoral, basilic, brachial and axillary veins in live patient models.
3. Demonstrate ultrasound guided cannulation on vascular simulator.
Echo and Aorta
1. Understand the surface landmarks for appropriate transducer positioning to perform sonographic examinations of the thoracic and abdominal aorta.
2. Demonstrate the ability to identify and visualize landmarks for the aorta in the transverse and longitudinal scanning planes.
3. Understand the sonographic findings and pitfalls for identifying pathology including aortic aneurysm.
4. Understand the utility of motion modality (M-mode) and demonstrate its use.
5. Demonstrate the surface landmarks and transducer position necessary to perform an echocardiogram in the emergency department.
6. Acquire and interpret sonographic images of heart (subcostal, parasternal long, parasternal short and apical windows).
7. Identify pathologic conditions such as pericardial effusion, gross wall motion abnormalities and cardiac tamponade.
Course format
Participants wanted more imaging of the heart and central line placement. Didactic lectures will provide state of the art audiovisual presentation by a veteran faculty, followed by small groups of a maximum four participants / one instructor allowing each individual participant ample time with their hand on the probe.
Schedule
Saturday 23 September
09:00-09:15 | Welcome |
09:15-10:00 | Image Acquisition and Instrumentation |
10:00-10:30 | Aorta |
10:30-11:00 | Coffee Break |
11:00-11:45 | Echo in the ED |
11:45-12:30 | (eFAST) Examination |
12:30-13:30 | Lunch |
13:30-14:00 | Vascular Access—central and peripheral lines |
14:00-14:45 | Hands-on Session #1 |
14:45-15:30 | Hands-on Session #2 |
15:30-16:00 | Coffee Break |
16:00-16:45 | Hands-on Session #3 |
16:45-17:00 | Wrap up and Adjourn |
National Societies
Albania
Albanian Society of Emergency Medicine
Shoqata Shqiptare e Urgjencës Mjekësore - SH.U.M.
Date of origin: 1 January 2013
Belgium
Year of origin: 1995
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Association of Emergency Medicine Physicians of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Udruženje Urgentologa u Federaciji Bosne i Hercegovine
Date of origin: 15 March 2019
Croatia
Croatian Society of Emergency Medicine
HZL Hrvatsko Društvo za Hitnu Medicinu
Date of origin: 12 June 1990
Czech Republic
Year of origin: 1994
Denmark
Danish Society for Emergency Medicine
Dansk Selskab for Akutmedicin
Date of origin: 28 September 2006
Estonia
Estonian Society of Emergency Physicians
Eesti Erakorralise Meditsiini Arstide Selts
Date of origin: 30 March 2004
France
French Society for Emergency Medicine
Société Française de Médecine d'Urgence
Date of origin: 3 March 1985
Georgia
Georgian College of Emergency Physicians
საქართველოს გადაუდებელი მედიცინის ექიმთა კოლეჯი
Germany
German Association for Emergency Medicine
Deutsche Gesellschaft Interdisziplinäre Notfall- und Akutmedizin (DGINA) e.V.
Greece
Hellenic Society of Emergency Medicine
Ελληνική Εταιρεία Επείγουσας Ιατρικής
Date of origin: 4 December 2002
Hungary
Hungarian Society for Emergency Medicine
Magyar Sürgösségi Orvostani Társaság
Date of origin: 8 April 2000
Ireland
Irish Association for Emergency Medicine
Cumann Leigheas Éigeandála na hÉireann (IAEM)
Date of origin: 29 April 1989
Italy
Italian Society for Emergency Medicine
Società Italiana di Medicina di Emergenza Urgenza (SIMEU)
Year of origin: 2000
Kosovo
Kosovo Society of Emergency Medicine
Shoqata për Mjekësi Emergjente e Kosovës (SHMEK)
Year of origin: 2008
Lithuania
Lithuanian Society for Emergency Medicine
Lietuvos Skubiosios Medicinos Draugija
Date of origin: 3 October 2003
Malta
Association of Emergency Physicians of Malta
Ghaqda Maltija tat-Tobba ghall-Emergenzi
Date of origin: 1 December 2006
Moldova
Society of Emergency Medicine and Disasters Medicine from Republic of Moldova
Asociația Obștească Societatea Științifico-Practică de Medicină de Urgență și Catastrofe din Republica Moldova
Netherlands
Dutch Society of Emergency Physicians
Nederlandse Vereniging van Spoedeisende Hulp Artsen
Year of origin: 1999
Poland
Polish Society for Emergency Medicine
Polskie Towarzystwo Medycyny Ratunkowej
Year of origin: 1999
Portugal
Portuguese Society of Urgent and Emergency Medicine
Sociedade Portuguesa de Medicina de Urgência e Emergência
Serbia
Serbian Society of Emergency Physicians
Društvo lekara urgentne medicine Srbije
Date of origin: 13 November 2014
Slovakia
Slovak Society of Disaster and Emergency Medicine
Slovenská spoločnost' urgentnej medicíny katastrof
Date of origin: 4 October 1997
Slovenia
Slovenian Emergency Medical Association
Slovensko združenje za urgentno medicino
Date of origin: 29 June 2016
Spain
Spanish Society of Emergency Medicine
Sociedad Española de Medicina de Urgencias y Emergencias
Date of origin: 8 March 1988