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.
Objectives:
- 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.
Course Outline:
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? |