Advanced Emergency Medicine & Critical Care Ultrasound (Sep 14 - 15, 2023)

Advanced Emergency Medicine & Critical Care Ultrasound is organized by Gulfcoast Ultrasound Institute (GCUS) Inc. and will be held from Sep 14 - 15, 2023 at Gulfcoast Ultrasound Institute, St. Petersburg, Florida, United States of America.

Overview:
The Advanced Emergency Medicine and Critical Care Ultrasound Live Training Course is designed to build on the knowledge base of experienced emergency medicine and critical care ultrasound professionals using advanced ACEP/WINFOCUS ultrasound topics. This course is taught by leading emergency medicine & critical care ultrasound experts and incorporates comprehensive lectures and interactive case presentations. Extensive hands-on skills training is provided featuring the industry's lowest 3:1 faculty-to-participant hands-on scan ratio with live models and phantoms.:

Objectives :
• Increase the participant’s knowledge to better perform and/or interpret Emergency and Critical Care ultrasound examinations.
• Identify Sonographic Characteristics Associated with Abdominal Sepsis involving the Hepatobiliary, Renal, And GI Systems.
• Outline indications and applications of color Doppler in the emergency and critical care setting.
• Perform ultrasound evaluation of the lung, ocular, soft-tissue, musculoskeletal, and bony cortices in the emergency department. (Optional EM Track)
• Demonstrate the use of ultrasound guidance for peripheral vascular access.
• State principles of spectral and cardiac Doppler fundamentals and apply quantitative methods to evaluate acute valvular abnormalities (Optional Critical Care Track).
• Recognize the sonographic appearance of individual nerves and list the advantages provided when ultrasound is used for performing regional nerve blocks. (Optional EM Track)
• Evaluate fluid responsiveness in critically ill patients.
• Perform testicular ultrasound and recognize acute abnormalities. (Optional EM Track)
• Increase competence to incorporate protocols, scan techniques & interpretation criteria to improve diagnostic/treatment accuracy.

Topics :
• Advanced Ultrasound Evaluation of Shock
• Sonography in Source of Sepsis (Gallbladder, Biliary Tree, Appendix, Bowel Obstruction, Peritonitis & Abscess, Pyelonephritis, Pneumonia)
• Fluid Responsiveness in the Critically Ill
• Ultrasound Guided Peripheral Vascular Access: Challenges, Pitfalls, Tips & Tricks
• Critical Care Track:
• Cardiac Doppler & Focused Calculations
• Echo Assessment of Cardiomyopathies & Heart Failure
• Mi & Complications
• Evaluation of the Right Heart
• Emergency Medicine Track:
• Sonography of the Acute Scrotum
• Advanced Em Applications (Evaluation of Soft Tissue for Abscess, Foreign Body Detection, Msk Applications, Evaluation of Bony Cortices for Rapid Fracture  Diagnoses/post-reduction Bony Alignment, • Evaluation of the Eye for Ocular Emergencies, and Et Placement/verification)
• Nerve Blocks in the Ed (Forearm, Truncal, Femoral, and Selected Ankle Blocks