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POCUS for Cruise Ship Health Care - Online Course

POCUS for Cruise Ship Health Care

 

POCUS for Cruise Ship Health Care


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POCUS for Cruise Ship Health Care

  • Developed in accordance with ACEP Cruise Ship Healthcare Guidelines
  • Taught by leading EM/CCU POCUS experts
  • Comprehensive lectures in an interactive, online modular format
  • Live recorded scanning demonstrations for each core POCUS application
  • AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • Attend a regularly scheduled POCUS scan workshop or coordinate a custom onsite or private one-on-one hands-on workshop to obtain skills training for improved confidence and competence to integrate into clinical practice.

Overview

The POCUS for Cruise Ship Health Care interactive online course provides participants a strong foundation to perform and/or interpret the core ultrasound applications in an emergency or critical care setting outlined in the ACEP Cruise Ship Health ultrasound practice guidelines. The online format provides flexibility while saving you time and minimizing travel costs.

The self-paced online course is taught by leading emergency and critical care medicine ultrasound experts, and incorporates comprehensive lectures, case presentations, and post-activity quizzes covering core POCUS for Cruise Ship Health ultrasound applications with twelve (12) months unlimited access.

For hands-on skills training attend a regularly scheduled GCUS Scanning Skills Workshop in sunny St. Petersburg, FL for a One (1) Day (8.0 Hours) scanning skills workshop at our state-of-the-art facility. The extensive hands-on scanning skills workshop features the industry lowest 3:1 participant to faculty ratio allowing the participant to immediately integrate the skills learned into clinical practice. Hands-on skills training includes imaging fundamentals/system optimization, E-FAST (trauma & lung), DVT, ultrasound-guided vascular access, and more. Each participant receives a scan log of exams performed to use for credentialing and/or POCUS certification purposes. 

For the best ultrasound education experience, completion of the online course prior to the hands-on scanning workshop is recommended. GCUS can also provide custom onsite hands-on workshops or private one-on-one training at the GCUS education facility. 

Date of Original Release: 9/4/2024

This edition valid for credit through: 9/4/2027


  1 year/365 days of Unlimited Access from date of purchase. Expires on 12/11/2025 if purchased today.

Code: OC-PCSH241
ID: 7542

Topics

  • Imaging Fundamentals and System Optimization / Knobology
  • Ultrasound Evaluation of the Trauma Patient (E-FAST and Lung)
  • POCUS evaluation of DVT
  • Ultrasound-Guided Central and Peripheral Vascular Access
  • Live Recorded Scanning Demonstrations for Each Core POCUS Application

Objectives

  • Increase participant’s knowledge to better perform and/or interpret Emergency ultrasound examinations
  • State the basic fundamentals of ultrasound physics and demonstrate appropriate optimization of system controls.
  • Perform extended ultrasound evaluation of the trauma patient (E-FAST exam) and pneumothorax.
  • Demonstrate image orientation, transducer preparation, and scan protocols for performing use of ultrasound guidance for vascular access
  • Outline protocol for focused evaluation of DVT.
  • Increase competence to incorporate protocols, scan techniques, and interpretation criteria into clinical practice.

Tuition

Registration: $400.00

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Audience

This interactive, online comprehensive POCUS for Cruise Ship Health Care course is designed for Physicians, PA’s, sonographers and other medical professionals who have little or no experience performing and/or interpreting the core POCUS ultrasound examinations, but have a desire to expand their skills to integrate the core and/or advanced ultrasound applications into cruise ship clinical practice. Physician participants may include (but are not limited to) emergency medicine, critical care, internal medicine, trauma surgeons, family practice, and primary care.

Faculty

GulfCoast Ultrasound Institute

James Mateer  MD, RDMS

Clinical Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine.
Medical College of Wisconsin.
Milwaukee, WI.
No relevant financial relationships to disclose.

GulfCoast Ultrasound Institute

Bret P. Nelson  MD, RDMS, FACEP

Director, Emergency Medicine Residency Program.
Department of Emergency Medicine.
Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
Brooklyn, New York.
GUI QI Task Force Subcommittee
No relevant financial relationships to disclose.

GulfCoast Ultrasound Institute

Lori Green  BA, RDMS, RDCS, RVT

President, Program Director.
Gulfcoast Ultrasound Institute, Inc.
Saint Petersburg, FL.
No relevant financial relationships to disclose.

GulfCoast Ultrasound Institute

Mark Swanson  RDMS, RVT

Senior Clinical Instructor, Product Specialist
Gulfcoast Ultrasound Institute, Inc.
St. Petersburg, FL.
No relevant financial relationships to disclose.

GulfCoast Ultrasound Institute

Karen Avgush  MD

Academic Hospitalist
Faculty, Internal Medicine Residency Program
Reading Hospital
Reading, PA
No relevant financial relationships to disclose.

Content Validation
All presentations for this CME activity were reviewed and approved by members of the GUI CME Review Committee to determine content validity and to ensure that no conflicts of interest exist prior to the activity commencement or material compilation.

Disclosure of Individuals in Control of Content
In addition to the faculty listed the following individuals are recognized by GUI as being in control of content of this program:

James Mateer, MD, RDMS (Medical Director - planner, QI Task Force)
Gulfcoast Ultrasound Institute
Milwaukee, WI
No relevant financial relationships to disclose.

Charlotte Derr, MD, RDMS, FACEP, FPD-AEMUS (Co-Medical Director - planner, QI Task Force)
Professor of Emergency Medicine
Fellowship Director of Advanced Emergency Medicine Ultrasound Fellowship Program
University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine
Tampa, FL
No relevant financial relationships to disclose

Andreas Dewitz, MD, RDMS (Member of Advisory Board & QI Task Force Subcommittee)
Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine
Clinical Director of POCUS Education, Solomont Simulation Center
Department of Emergency Medicine Boston Medical Center
Boston, MA.
No relevant financial relationships to disclose

Lori Green, BA, RDMS, RDCS, RVT (Program Director - planner, Content Reviewer, QI Task Force)
Program Director and President,
Gulfcoast Ultrasound Institute, Inc.
St Petersburg, FL.
No relevant financial relationships to disclose

Trisha Reo, AAS, RDMS, RVT (Program Coordinator - planner, Content Reviewer, QI Task Force)
Gulfcoast Ultrasound Institute, Inc.
St Petersburg, FL.
No relevant financial relationships to disclose

Mark Swanson, RDMS, RVT (Senior Clinical/ Product Specialist - planner, Content Reviewer, QI Task Force)
Gulfcoast Ultrasound Institute, Inc.
St Petersburg, FL.
No relevant financial relationships to disclose


Disclosure of Commercial Support
There was no commercial support involved in the planning, development/implementation of this activity.


Credits (Optional with additional purchase)

The Gulfcoast Ultrasound Institute is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.


The Gulfcoast Ultrasound Institute designates this enduring material for a maximum of 6.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

This course also meets CME/CEU requirements for ARDMS. Note: While offering the CME credit hours noted above, activities are not intended to provide extensive training or certification for exam performance or interpretation.

Resources

39 YEARS

Serving the Medical Community

180,000+

Participants Trained

500,000+

CME Credits Awarded

6,000+

Courses Offered

CONFIDENCE, COMPETENCE, PROVEN RESULTS

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