JUNE, 8th
Hôpital du Valais - Centre Hospitalier du Valais Romand Centre de Formation et Simulation, Rue St-Charles 14 - 3960 Sierre
Time: 8:00 am - 6:00 pm
A course on Focused Cardiac Ultrasound (FoCUS) specifically designed for Intensive, CriticalCare, Emergency Physicians and Anesthesiologists. The course is targeted at physicians who arenew to cardiac ultrasound, and covers the use of limited Transthoracic Echocardiography in thesetting of cardiac arrest/peri-resuscitation, and as a screening tool for the unstable patient in theICU/emergency
Directors: Christian Balmer (Sion), Gabriele Via (Lugano)
Faculty: Christian Balmer (Sion), Julien Coiffier (Sion),Tristan Deslarzes (Sion), Juan JoséGarcia Martinez (Sion), Marco Rusca (Lausanne), Gabriele Via (Lugano)
To register, please mail to: [email protected] or phone to +39 338 6727 225 and youwill receive assistance and all infos for payment and course attendance.
FoCUS PRINCIPLES & FoCUS EXAM
8.00 Welcome, course instructions
8.10 Aims and place of FoCUS in echocardiography training and practice.The 6 targets of the FoCUS Exam
8.30 FoCUS signs of Chronic cardiac disease
8.50 FoCUS signs of LV systolic dysfunction 9.10 FoCUS signs of RV systolic dysfunction
9.30 Coffee
9.50 HANDS ON TRAINING (HOT 1): Basic TTE views, Laptop training5 WORKSTATIONS with healthy models, tutorial laptops
12.20 FoCUS signs of pericardial effusion and tamponade
12.40 FoCUS signs of obvious valvular pathology
13.00 Lunch
13.40 FoCUS signs of severe hypovolemia
14.00 Focused Cardiac Ultrasound in cardiac arrest
14.∫ Focused Cardiac Ultrasound in shock
14.50 Focused Cardiac Ultrasound in respiratory failure
15.05 Pitfalls and limitations of Focused Cardiac Ultrasound
15.30 HANDS ON TRAINING (HOT 2): TTE views wrap up, ALS Megacode,Laptop training, Shock Megacode5 WORKSTATIONS with healthy models, tutorial laptops, ACLS mannequins 18.00 End of Course & Certificate distribution
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