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Trauma and Acute Care Ultrasound - Online Course

Trauma and Acute Care Ultrasound

 

Trauma and Acute Care Ultrasound


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Trauma and Acute Care Ultrasound

  • 12 months UNLIMITED access from your computer, tablet or phone. No lockouts, or hidden limitations after a certain amount of views.
  • A variety of learning components including: video lectures, scan demonstrations, interactive components/quizzes, and more to improve diagnostic accuracy.
  • This online course is approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ upon successful completion.
  • All online courses cover the same topics as our comprehensive live courses. Add a Hands-On Workshop (Not Valid for Registry Reviews) and receive 3 additional months of access. See our Blended Course Learning Format for more details.
  • Group pricing is available for groups of 5 or more (Not Valid for Registry Reviews). Add a Custom Onsite Hands-On Workshop for training consistency, time and cost effectiveness, with the highest quality ultrasound training in the industry.
  • Private Hands-On Workshops are also available for the learner who prefers the 1-1 learning format. Receive 3 additional months of unlimited online access (Not Valid for Registry Reviews) with a Private Hands-On Course. See our Private Hands-On Course Learning Format for more details.

Overview

Trauma and Acute Care Ultrasound Online Course is for emergency medicine, critical care, or point-of-care medical professionals and provides topics based on ACEP, and AAFP ultrasound practice guidelines. Taught by leading emergency medicine and critical care ultrasound expert faculty, this self-directed course contains eleven (11) modules with online video lectures, case presentations, and post-activity quizzes. Enrollment is valid for 12 months (365 days) and begins the moment the participant is enrolled. Extend your online course access another 3 months by coordinating a private hands-on workshop at the GCUS education facility, registration for a regularly scheduled GCUS scan workshop, or onsite education for groups of 5 or more participants.

Date of Original Release: 12/21/2022

This edition valid for credit through: 12/21/2025


  1 year/365 days of Unlimited Access from date of purchase. Expires on 12/10/2025 if purchased today.

Code: OC-UTR221
ID: 6304

Topics

  • Imaging Fundamentals: The Basics
  • Abdominal Scanning Fundamentals
  • Ultrasound in Trauma: FAST and E-FAST
  • Thoracic Ultrasound: Basic and Advanced Techniques
  • Focused Cardiac Ultrasound
  • Rapid Ultrasound for Shock and Hypotension (RUSH)
  • Ultrasound Guided Vascular Access
  • Ultrasound Guided Procedures for Emergency and Critical Care Applications
  • Ultrasound Guided Nerve Blocks for Emergency Medicine
  • Advanced Ultrasound Applications: Soft-Tissue and MSK for Emergency Medicine
  • Cases in Trauma Ultrasound

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.
  • Perform ultrasound-guided procedures for emergency and critical care applications: thoracentesis, paracentesis, pericardiocentesis, lumbar puncture, endotracheal tube placement.

Tuition

Registration: $670.00

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Audience

Physicians, PA’s, sonographers and other medical professionals who will be involved with performing and/or interpreting trauma and acute care ultrasound examinations. Physicians may include (but is not limited to) emergency medicine, critical care, family medicine, primary care, internal medicine, hospitalist, trauma and general surgery.

Faculty

GulfCoast Ultrasound Institute

Charlotte Derr  MD, RDMS, FACEP, FPD-AEMUS

Professor of Emergency Medicine
Fellowship Director of Advanced Emergency Medicine Ultrasound Fellowship Program
University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine
Tampa, FL
GUI QI Task Force Subcommittee
No relevant financial relationships to disclose.

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

Trisha Reo  AAS, RDMS, RVT

Program Coordinator
Gulfcoast Ultrasound Institute, Inc.
Saint Petersburg, FL.
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 (Co-Medical Director-planner, QI Task Force)
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine &
Fellowship Director of Emergency Medicine
Ultrasound Fellowship Program
University of South Florida Medical School
Tampa, FL
No relevant financial relationships to disclose

Andreas Dewitz, MD, RDMS(Member of Advisory Board, QI Task Force Subcommittee)
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine
Vice Chair of Ultrasound Education
Boston Medical Center Boston, MA
No relevant financial relationships to disclose

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

Trisha Reo, AAS, RDMS, RVT (Program Coordinator - planner, Content Reviewer, QI Task Force)
Gulfcoast Ultrasound Institute, Inc.
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 14.25 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

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