Canadian Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) EDE 1

Speciality Internal medicine - Diagnostic & investigative

Organizer Marwa Samir Rushdy

CME/CPD Provider CEPD/016P

Scheduled date(s):

From 06 December 2020 To 06 December 2020

From 12 November 2020 To 12 November 2020

From 13 September 2020 To 13 September 2020

Aims And Objectives

• Identify and Treat the cause of urgent and emergent conditions that is commonly seen in acute care medicine. • Identifying Abnormalities including: abdominal aortic aneurysm, pleural effusion, pneumothorax, abdominal fluid detection, pericardial effusion and poor LV function. • Understand the basic principle of ultrasound applied to acute care medicine • To acquire high-quality images • Perform a basic transthoracic echo (TTE) examination, basic lung ultrasound, basic abdominal ultrasound, including FAST, IVC ultrasound for assessment of volume status and fluid responsiveness, abdominal aortic ultrasound

Content Outline

This is the highest standard and resource intensive course of its kind! More instructors per student, more models, and more machine. The participants get intense one-on-one supervision of the scans on live models including patients with positive findings. This is the Rolls-Royce of POCUS courses. Nothing else comes close! Core internal medicine department applications include, Knobology and E-FAST, IVC and Abdominal Aorta, Basic Echocardiography, lung ultrasound and other abnormalities

Target Audience

Internal Medicine Doctors