CORE Emergency Ultrasound Course (Level 1)
Our Core Emergency Ultrasound Course is intended to give you a firm foundation in both the knowledge and skills required in EM PoCUS by the Royal College of Emergency Medicine at Introductory and Intermediate level.
You can apply for 8 CPD points for this course.
Course Dates:
October 2024: 11th, 21st, 30th
November 2024: 1st, 13th, 22nd, 27th
December 2024: 6th, 9th
January 2025: 15th, 21st, 31st
February 2025: 4th, 12th, 20th, 28th
If none of the available dates suit you, please contact us and we may be able to arrange additional dates.
Price: £370
Course Times: 9.00am – 5.15pm
Venue: Terracotta Court (ground floor), 167 Tower Bridge Road, London, SE1 3LN
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About Our Core Emergency Ultrasound Course
What Does the Level 1 US Course Cover?
By the end of this course, you will understand the principles of ultrasound and be able to apply this in using a range of different ultrasound machines. You will understand the Point-Of-Care Ultrasound (PoCUS) Curriculum of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine. You will understand the knowledge and skill requirements in each of the clinical application areas of the curriculum and be able to apply this knowledge and these skills in obtaining diagnostically useful images across the range of the Introductory and Intermediate levels of the curriculum.
The course covers:
- Ultrasound physics.
- Knobology (how to operate ultrasound machines)
- PoCUS Clinical Governance
- Focused Assessment for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm (AAA)
- Ultrasound-guided (USG) peripheral and central Intravenous (IV) access
- Echo in Life Support (ELS)
- USG fascia iliaca compartment block (FICB)
- Focused Assessment with Sonography for Trauma (FAST)
- Extended Focused Assessment with Sonography for Trauma (eFAST) for additional assessment of the thorax for pneumothorax and hemothorax
What is the Structure of the Course?
As soon as you register you will be given access to 12 ultrasound videos. These cover the core knowledge required. Each of the clinical application videos, the physics and knobology videos finish with a quiz, focused on that area, to enable you to test how well you have understood and retained the information.
On the day of the course there will be short presentations on knobology and the clinical applications along with live demonstrations. These are deliberately kept short to maximise the scanning time as it is assumed that the videos have already been watched. For the ECHO in Life Support there will be a more detailed presentation as many candidates require this. Between the presentations there will be a series of practical sessions covering: knobology and AAA, eFAST, ELS and procedures (vascular access and fascia iliaca blocks).
During the practical sessions you will work with a range of different ultrasound machines and healthy volunteers with faculty guidance and supervision. You will also work with handheld ultrasound devices, scannable manikins and state-of-the-art ultrasound simulators, able to demonstrate a wide range of realistic pathologies. You will receive guidance from the faculty, however there is also a great deal of freedom to use the equipment and the time to maximise the learning benefit for yourself.
The course finishes with a quiz based on the content of the day.
What Skills Will You Develop?
You will learn how to handle an ultrasound machine, how to optimise an image, how to position an ultrasound probe to obtain the required image and how to adjust the position within three-dimensional space.
You will learn how to recognise the pathologies required in the curriculum.
You will learn how to use ultrasound to guide a cannula into a peripheral or central vein and to guide a needle when performing a fascia iliaca compartment block (FICB).
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