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USCMC Curriculum
UltraSound Critical Management Certification
The USCMC Global Program is the USCME component devoted to develop 'Critical Ultrasound' education, certification, credentialing, accreditation, integrating at different extents education and healthcare institutions, through post-graduate CME programs.
It is designed and developed together with the UNITED Program (the project focusing university pre-graduate and post-graduate curricula), within the frame of the USCME Global Initiative.
At date, three main curricula are being developed focusing basic and advanced applications for three main bundles of practice:
- USLS [UltraSound Life Support]
- Ultrasound in Acute, Emergency and Critical Care,
- including Disaster, Tactical, Austere, Wilderness, Sport, and Air-space Medicine.
- USPHC [UltraSound for Primary Health Care]
- Ultrasound in General Practice (USGP) and Primary Care,
- including scarce-resource, rural, and remote medicine (PRIMUS, Primary Ultrasound).
- ECHO-ICU [Echocardiography for Intensivists]
- Echocardiography in critical and intensive care settings,
- including basic and advanced TTE/TOE haemodinamyc monitoring.
 
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The modules are based on a large number of applications increasingly reported by the International literature.
See bibliography references through the common medical web engines, and particularly the outstanding 'Critical Care Medicine Journal' Supplement:
- 'Ultrasound in Critical Care', Crit Care Med. 2007 May;35[Suppl], edited by Michael Blaivas (GA, USA), Andrew Kirkpatrick (Canada) and Alan Sustic (Croatia).
The learning and certification matrix is developed by two relevant documents recently published by Winfocus, as prototypes of an incoming guideline series, based on International consensus and evidence:
- Neri L, Storti E, Lichtenstein D. Toward an ultrasound curriculum for critical care medicine. Crit Care Med. 2007 May;35(5 Suppl):S290-304.
- Price S, Via G, Sloth E, Guarracino F, Breitkreutz R, Catena E, Talmor D; World Interactive Network Focused On Critical UltraSound ECHO-ICU Group. Echocardiography practice, training and accreditation in the intensive care: document for the World Interactive Network Focused on Critical Ultrasound (WINFOCUS). Cardiovasc Ultrasound. 2008 Oct 6;6:49.
Note: Recommendations and guidelines coming from the ILCEUS conferences and studies will provide soon further effective formats for the training modules.
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