PRE-COURSE: ULTRASOUND ADVANCED

Saturday 7 September: 08:30 - 18:00
Sunday 8 September: 08:30 - 12:30

Course Directors

  • Gian Alfonso Cibinel (Italy)
  • James Connolly (UK)
  • Mike Lambert (USA)

Faculty 

  • Rip Gangahar, UK
  • Adela Golea, Romania
  • Robert Jarman, UK
  • Hein Lamprecht, South Africa
  • Jean-François Lanctôt, Canada
  • Christofer Muhr, Sweden
  • Gregor Prosen, Slovenia
  • Vincent Rietveld, The Netherlands
  • Maxime Valois, Canada
  • Joseph P. Wood, USA

Participants

30 physicians in 6 groups.
Requirements: english speaking participants, basic US experience and/or previous participation in a basic emergency US course, ALS/ACLS/ATLS certification recommended.

Course description

2-days emergency ultrasound advanced course: lectures, organ based hands-on practice, simulated clinical scenarios.

Learning objectives

 
  • Technique: advanced US approach to head, neck, limbs, chest, heart, abdomen
  • Recognition of advanced US syndromes
  • US enhanced advanced management of critical syndromes: cardiac arrest, shock, respiratory failure, acute abdomen, coma
  • Technique: advanced US approach to head, neck, limbs, chest, heart, abdomen
  • Recognition of advanced US syndromes
  • US enhanced advanced management of critical syndromes: cardiac arrest, shock, respiratory failure, acute abdomen, coma

Schedule

DAY 1
 
08:30 GREETINGS AND REGISTRATION. INTRODUCTION
08:45 EuSEM US education in perspective
09:00 ABC US-enhanced assessment of ABCDE
09:45 COFFEE BREAK
10:00 STATIONS: morning rotation on stations A to F for the 6 groups
A – Head & neck 
B – Lung
C – Heart
D – Abdomen
E – MSK
F – Procedures 
13:00 LUNCH BREAK
14:00 STATIONS: afternoon rotation on stations A to F for the 6 groups
A – Head & neck 
B – Lung 
C – Heart
D – Abdomen
E – MSK
F – Procedures
17:00 Meet the experts
17:30 Faculty meeting
   
DAY 2  
08:00 US-enhanced cardiac arrest algorithms
08:20 US-enhanced periarrest algorithms
09:00 STATIONS
A – Cardiac arrest
B – Cardiac arrest
C – B-Failure (also in trauma) & procedures
D – B-Failure (also in trauma) & procedures
E – C-Failure (also in trauma) & procedures
F – C-Failure (also in trauma) & procedures
12:00 END OF PRE-COURSE