Point-of-care Ultrasound (POCUS) Workshop 2025

Point-of-care Ultrasound (POCUS) Workshop 2025 is organized by Duke University Health System and will be held on Mar 20, 2025 at Durham, North Carolina, United States of America.

Description:
This two-day POCUS workshop is a unique hands-on experience to teach clinicians bedside applications of portable ultrasound. The workshop is offered as a flipped-classroom approach with didactics presented online prior to the in-person course. In-person course activities will include nine hours of supervised scanning time with standardized patients and one hour of group image interpretation of POCUS clips with varying Pathology. In addition, courses will include three hours of optional instruction/simulation on thoracentesis, paracentesis, lumbar puncture, and vascular access. For anesthesiologists, this course can be used to fulfill two requirements of the ASA’s Diagnostic POCUS Certificate: Part 2 (12 hours of POCUS) and the supervised section of Part 4 (Log of Studies).

Learning Objectives:

• Operating an ultrasound machine independently
• Performing a diagnostic POCUS exam of multiple organ systems (heart, lungs, abdomen, and lower extremity veins)
• Using ultrasound to perform bedside procedures, including vascular access, thoracentesis, and paracentesis
• Identifying gross abnormalities in ultrasound exam clips/images