Quality Bone Densitometry: Performance, Interpretation, and Clinical Application for Technologists - December 2024

Quality Bone Densitometry: Performance, Interpretation, and Clinical Application for Technologists is organized by International Society for Clinical Densitometry (ISCD) and will be held from Dec 07 - 08, 2024.

Course Description:
The core elements of this program focus on performing quality DXA scans, dissecting the data and applying this knowledge to a technologist’s role in patient care. This course, which focuses on quality DXA, is innovative, interactive and informative.  The course emphasizes technical excellence in the performance, analysis and troubleshooting of bone densitometry scans. It provides standard practices and applications to raise the quality of DXA scan procedures and their impact on patient care. The program is designed to enhance awareness of the technical expertise involved in performing bone densitometry and applying protocols to address the everyday challenges. Attendees with come away with a strong sense of the considerable impact that a technologist plays in the delivery of quality DXA, and how that influences patient management.

Learning Objectives:
After attending the course, participants should be better prepared to:

• Design and implement quality control and assurance practices.
• Perform a precision assessment and appreciate the requirement for clinical care.  
• Identify the anatomy relevant to clinical DXA scanning. 
• Implement consistent and appropriate technical acquisition and analysis techniques.  
• Perform a fracture risk assessment using FRAX. 
• Provide DXA interpreters sufficient information for a high-quality DXA report. 
• Discuss supplemental software and their application.
• Demonstrate how to access features within the DXA software. 
• Understand how specific medical conditions and medications affect bone density. 
• Critically evaluate DXA scans to identify acquisition and analysis errors and implement resolution methods.
• Recognize how technical errors impact clinical interpretation and patient care.