POCUS – FAST & EFAST scan | English version

Target attendees:

Junior diagnostic residents, radiologists, clinicians, internal medicine physicians, emergency medicine physicians, surgeons, sonologists, and allied health professionals interested in POCUS with mild or no prior ultrasound experience.

Be Confident, Accurate, and Quick in performing FAST& EFAST scan.
Identify normal anatomy seen in the four FAST views
Describe where free fluid collects, which may represent bleeding in a trauma patient
Understand how to detect fluid in the abdomen, pelvis, pericardium& pleura and how to detect gross organic tears.
Understand how to detect pneumothorax.
Give appropriate clinician help in emergency cases.

	POCUS – FAST scan: 4 steps
Step 1	How to detect pericardial effusion?
Step 2	How to detect pelvic fluid collection?
Step 3	How to examine lienorenal space and left pleural space?
Step 4	How to examine Morison’s pouch and right pleural space?
	POCUS – EFAST scan: 1 step
Step 5	How to exclude pneumothorax?