Canadian Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) EDE 1

Speciality Emergency Medicine - Skills & training

Organizer Marwa Samir Rushdy

CME/CPD Provider CEPD/016P

Scheduled date(s):

From 31 December 2024 To 31 December 2024

From 23 November 2024 To 23 November 2024

From 19 October 2024 To 19 October 2024

From 24 August 2024 To 24 August 2024

From 27 July 2024 To 27 July 2024

From 11 May 2024 To 11 May 2024

From 16 March 2024 To 16 March 2024

From 20 January 2024 To 20 January 2024

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

Emergency and Internal Medicine Doctors