Abdominal and Primary Care Ultrasound - Online Course

Abdominal and Primary Care Ultrasound - Online Course is organized by Gulfcoast Ultrasound Institute (GUI) Inc. and would be held during Jul 29, 2015 - Jul 29, 2018. This CME Conference has been approved with a maximum of 22.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits.

Sonographers, physicians, PAs and other medical professionals learning how to perform and/orinterpret abdominal sonography. Physician participants may include (but are not limited to) those involved with: primary care, internal medicine, emergency medicine, critical care, hospitalists, trauma, gastroenterology, and urology.

Conference Topics are :
• Imaging Fundamentals: The Basics
• Abdominal Sonography Anatomy and Scan Fundamentals
• Ultrasound Evaluation of the Abdominal Aorta
• Normal Liver, Gallbladder, Biliary Tree, and Spleen Sonography
• Ultrasound Evaluation of Liver, Gallbladder, and Biliary Tree Pathology
• Renal Ultrasound Imaging
• Ultrasound Evaluation of the Pancreas
• Trauma Ultrasonography
• Ultrasound Evaluation of the Appendix and GI Tract
• Cases in Abdominal Ultrasound
• Ultrasound Evaluation of the Thyroid
• Ultrasound Evaluation of the Acute Scrotum
• Ultrasound Evaluation of Soft Tissues
• Doppler and Color Flow Imaging: Fundamentals for Point-of-Care Applications
• Abdominal Doppler Physics
• Ultrasound Evaluation of Renal Artery Stenosis
Conference Objectives are :
Upon completion of these enduring materials, the viewer should be able to accomplish the following :
• Demonstrate the participant’s knowledge to better perform and/or interpret abdominal ultrasound examinations
• Demonstrate proper transducer manipulation and system optimization to produce diagnostic images
• Perform scan protocols and routine measurements that are utilized during an abdominal ultrasound evaluation
• Identify normal/abnormal imaging characteristics of the liver, gallbladder, pancreas, spleen, kidneys and abdominal vasculature.
• Cite Doppler/color physics principles and be able toapply these principles to optimize system controls or utilize this information for identifying technical errors which may result in misdiagnosis
• Demonstrate routine examination protocols associated with the ultrasound evaluation of renal artery stenosis
• Differentiate normal/abnormal characteristics for the evaluation of the thyroid, testes/scrotum, and appendix
• Perform an ultrasound evaluation of the trauma patient
• Demonstrate the use of ultrasound for evaluation of soft-tissue pathology
• Demonstrate competence to incorporate protocols, scan techniques and interpretation criteria to improve diagnostic/treatment accuracy