Women’s OB GYN Point-of-Care Ultrasound for Advanced Practice Provider On-Demand Plus OnSite Hands-On (Dec 12 - 13, 2025)

Women’s OB GYN Point-of-Care Ultrasound for Advanced Practice Provider On-Demand Plus OnSite Hands-On is organized by InnovatED Ultrasound and will be held from Dec 12 - 13, 2025 at InnovatED Ultrasound, Goodlettsville, Tennessee, United States of America.

Description:
Includes all of the modules for both OB and GYN plus 2 days of HANDS-ON TRAINING using live models and ultrasound phantoms professionally manufactured exclusively for Innovated Ultrasound including an ectopic phantom and an IUD, fibroid phantom.

InnovatED Ultrasound is proud to present a custom-designed class that targets basic information and skills needed for Advanced Practice Providers to perform point of care ultrasound for women in an OB/GYN setting.

This course consists of two consecutive days onsite. The Women’s POCUS Course includes online didactic sessions created by a doctorally-prepared advance practice nurse-midwife who is also a Diagnostic Medical Sonographer Plus two consecutive days of Sonographer guided hands-on scanning. Each hands-on session is assisted by ARDMS-certified sonographers and educators. Class sizes are limited with a 3 to 1 learner to trainer ratio. Early registration is encouraged.

Women’s POCUS Ultrasound Objectives:
By the end of the Women’s POCUS OB/GYN Combined Course, participants will be able to:
Physics and Instrumentation

• Understand basic ultrasound physics
• Use common ultrasound terms
• Adjust display depth based on the exam being performed
• Adjust gain (overall and time-gain compensation)
• Adjust focal zone and change the number of focal zones during an exam
• Use harmonic imaging
• Choose a specific transducer frequency based on the area being scanned
• Understand the uses of various transducers – curved, linear, phased array
• Modify the exam based on gray-scale artifacts
• Understand mechanical and thermal index, demonstrate how to modify these
• Practice ALARA (“as low as reasonably achievable”) principle
• Recognize the mechanisms for potential biological effects
• Use knowledge of sound reflection to modify scanning technique
• Clean and disinfect transducers in accordance with manufacturer’s guidelines

Hemodynamics

• Modify the exam based on Doppler artifacts
• Document embryonic and/or fetal cardiac activity
• Evaluate measurements of blood flow velocitie

GYN Ultrasound

• Define indications for performing a point of care ultrasound in a gynecologic patient
• Assess and record uterine position
• Perform gynecologic sonography exams on post-menarchal, premenopausal and post-menopausal patients
• Assess both adnexa, including posterior and anterior culdesacs
• Identify endometrial fluid
• Identify ovarian cysts/masses
• Assess for causes of bleeding in gynecologic patients

Obstetric Ultrasound

• Define indications for performing a point of care ultrasound in an obstetric patient
• Perform first trimester obstetric exams
• Attempt to correlate HCG levels with abnormal pregnancies (ectopic, hydatidiform mole)
• Identify the yolk sac
• Identify an enlarged or echogenic yolk sac
• Identify the double decidual sac sign
• Identify an anembryonic pregnancy
• Identify an ectopic pregnancy
• Identify embryonic demise
• Determine fetal number and chorionicity
• Perform second and third trimester obstetric exams
• Assess the shape of the fetal head at the level of the biparietal diameter (BPD)
• Identify a lethal fetal head anomaly (ie, anencephaly, acrania, hydranencephaly, other)
• Document the fetal diaphragm
• Identify multiple gestations
• Perform biophysical profile
• Identify fetal demise
• Assess for causes of bleeding in obstetric patients
• Assess for appearance consistent with a placental abruption
• Assess for appearance consistent with a low-lying placenta
• Identify a pregnancy with oligohydramnios or anhydramnios
• Identify a pregnancy with polyhydramnios

Protocols
Clinical standards and guidelines

• Obtain pertinent clinical history as part of the exam
• Review lab results as a part of the exam

Gynecologic exams

• Check the results of a previous ultrasound exam
• Inform a physician of findings that may be of an emergent nature
• Measure uterine depth, width, and length
• Use transabdominal scans in gynecologic patients
• Use transvaginal scans in gynecologic patients
• Measure the endometrium in the anteroposterior diameter
• Identify intrauterine device (IUD) placement

Obstetric

• In the first trimester, measure gestational sac using the mean sac diameter
• Measure the crown-rump length
• Determine necessity of maternal bladder filling based on indication of the exam
• Assess amniotic fluid
• Measure the amniotic fluid index (AFI)
• Establish fetal lie and presentation
• Document placental location
• Measure the biparietal diameter (BPD), head circumference (HC), abdominal circumference (AC) and femur length (FL)
• Document the fetal stomach
• Use both transabdominal and transvaginal ultrasound in obstetric patients; appropriate to the indication and gestation
• Measure cervical length
• Identify components of an incompetent cervix
• Perform exams for assisted reproduction techniques
• Tailor the exam to evaluate pregnancies where a maternal and/or fetal condition indicates a potential complication

Professional Considerations

• Be familiar with professional organization guidelines for the use of ultrasound (AIUM, ARDMS, SDMS, ACOG, ACNM, AWHONN)
• Identify correct methods of image documentation and archiving
• Describe guidelines for providing keepsake images
• Tailor the exam to evaluate pregnancies where a maternal and/or fetal condition indicates a potential complication