Heart & Lung Workshop
Wednesday 12th September
This workshop is aimed to educate all doctors who work in settings where they will encounter acutely unwell patients in their practice and thus is relevant to Anaesthetics, Cardiology, Nephrology, Infectious diseases, Respiratory, General Internal, Emergency, Acute, and Intensive Care Medicine, and basically anyone on call in hospital. You will be sent some pre-course learning material which will provide you with a basic understanding of the principles of point of care ultrasound including physics, ‘knobology’, and basic lung and heart views.
Heart & Lung Workshop
The day is primarily aimed at an introduction to these concepts however if you have some experience it will act as a refresher and candidates will grouped with others of similar experience and more advanced instruction will be provided on the day as appropriate.
The main focus will be on hands on experience for the participants, that is acquiring the technical skills to obtain ultrasound images and basic interpretation of normal appearances versus the appearance of life threatening pathologies.
Heart & Lung Workshop
On the day itself there will be a few short talks limited to approximately ten minutes each. These will include the following topics.
Knobology refresher – make friends with your machine
POCUS and the ‘H’s and ‘T’s / Pericardial effusion with tamponade/Massive PE/Global left ventricular function/Hypovolaemia
Lung appearances on ultrasound – normal and abnormal
DVT Workshop
Thursday 13th September – Half day
This workshop is aimed to educate all doctors who work in settings where they will encounter patients who may have deep vein thrombosis. You will be sent some pre-course learning material which will provide you with a basic understanding of the principles of point of care ultrasound including physics, ‘knobology’, and basic information on how to do DVT scanning.
DVT Workshop
On the day itself there will be a few short talks limited to approximately ten minutes each. These will include the following topics; how to perform a DVT scan/Evidence for POCUS in DVT and alternative diagnoses. However again, the main focus will be on participants gaining hands on experience in learning how to do DVT scans.
