Cadaver Regional Anesthesia Ultrasound & PoCUS Workshop 2018

Cadaver Regional Anesthesia Ultrasound & PoCUS Workshop 2018 is organized by Cleveland Clinic Center for Continuing Education and will be held from Dec 01 - 02, 2018 at Cleveland Clinic - Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America.

The target audience for this medical event is Physician Anesthesiologists, Fellows and Residents in Anesthesiology, Pain Management and Critical Care. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 14.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits.

Conference Description :
This course is designed for Anesthesiologists who are seeking to advance their skills in ultrasound guided regional anesthesia. The course includes lectures, hands on workshops on fresh frozen human cadavers and live models. This is a great learning opportunity for anesthesia providers with strong emphasis on small group learning and real time hands on practice of regional anesthesia blocks. The expanded optional half day (PoCUS) point of care ultrasound workshop for the Anesthesiologist is designed to introduce the use of ultrasound for emergency cardiac evaluation, pulmonary, gastric and airway evaluation at bedside.

Conference Objectives are : 
• Recognize and describe the sonoanatomy of vessels, peripheral nerves, tendons and nerve plexi.
• Describe and discuss the techniques to refine and improve the quality of the ultrasound image obtained.
• Practice needle insertion techniques; identify the block needle trajectory and the spread of local anesthetic.
• Practice the ultrasound guided regional anesthesia blocks real-time on cadavers.
• Place indwelling catheters in cadavers and detect the final position of the catheter tip.
• Employ ultrasound guided regional anesthesia skills to improve block success rate and patient satisfaction.
• Detect critical structures that need to be avoided to improve patient safety in regional anesthesia.
• Scanning and identification of diaphragm, pleura, gastric volume s and basic transthoracic cardiac views.