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Advanced Registration Resident Rate: $1,195. Please call us to register if you are a Resident.
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Course Itinerary
Course follows ACEP guidelines for the basic primary applications.
Course Objectives
At the completion of the program the participant should be able to:
- Identify sonographic characteristics associated with hepatobiliary disease, pancreatic pathology, renal disease and fluid localization.
- Explain the role of ultrasound for extended applications including, but not limited, to pneumothorax, ocular and musculoskeletal procedures in the emergency department.
- Demonstrate the use of ultrasound guidance for vascular access and fluid aspirations.
- Explain imag. techniques & scan planes used in cardiac U/S.
- Recognize normal cardiac structures & identify ultrasound findings associated with cardiomyopathy, pericardial effusion, cardiogenic shock, dissection & other hypotensive conditions.
- Discuss imaging techniques, normal and abnormal characteristics associated with lower extremity venous examinations.
- Explain examination techniques, normal sonographic findings and commonly seen abnormalities associated with testicular ultrasound.
- Describe scanning techniques used in foreign body localization.
- Increase knowledge and confidence to perform and/or interpret emergency medicine ultrasound examinations.
- Apply the information discussed in a clinical setting, under supervised conditions until an acceptable level of proficiency and appropriate hospital credentialing has been achieved.
Course Topics:
- Ultrasound-guided vascular access
- 2D cardiac scan planes and normal anatomy
- Cardiac pathology, pericardiocentesis, case studies
- Venous imaging techniques
- Soft tissue, musculoskeletal and foreign body localization applications
- Testicular and scrotal ultrasound
- Ultrasound-guided procedures
- Interactive case studies interpretation session
- Ocular emergencies
- Evaluation for pneumothorax
- Hands-on sessions
Who Can Attend? Emergency, trauma, critical care, internal medicine and family practice physicians who will be involved with performing and interpreting ultrasound examinations. Participants should have a minimum of 3 months scanning experience before attending this program.
Faculty:
James Mateer, MD, RDMS
Clinical Prof. of Emergency Medicine
Milwaukee, WI
Accepting honorariums, Gulfcoast Ultrasound Institute, Inc.
No relevant financial relationships to disclose
Charlotte Derr, MD, RDMS, FACEP
Emergency U/S Director
Assoc. Program Director
Assist. Prof.
Univ of South Florida Emergency Medicine Residency Program
Tampa, FL
Consultant accepting honorarium from Gulfcoast Ultrasound Institute, Inc.
No relevant financial relationships to disclose
Corky Hecht, BA, RDMS, RDCS, RVT, RT (N)
Program Coordinator
Gulfcoast Ultrasound Institute, Inc.
Employee, Gulfcoast Ultrasound Institute, Inc.
No relevant financial relationships to disclose
The Gulfcoast Ultrasound Institute is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The Gulfcoast Ultrasound Institute designates this educational activity for a maximum of 16.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
This Emergency Ultrasound program meets ACEP, AMA PRA Category 1 and ARDMS CME credit requirements.
Approved by the American College of Emergency Physicians for a maximum of 14.5 hour(s) of ACEP Category I credit.
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