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Pediatric & Neonatal Critical Ultrasound Course — PNCU-B

Basic Level Provider – PNCU-B

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Course description

This cutting-edge ultrasound course is designed for both the novice sonographer and the clinician seeking to gain additional knowledge and expertise in pediatric-specific applications.
This will be a comprehensive POCUS course, which will cover both the fundamentals of point-of-care ultrasound, and pediatric-specific applications.
The first day Will focus on diagnostic applications: both core point-of-care ultrasound applications and pediatric-specific applications. The second day will largely focus on procedural applications.

Physicians, midlevel providers, resident trainees, and medical students are all welcome.
Pediatric practitioners, Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Pediatric Critical Care, Neonatologists and General Pediatrics ( outpatient and inpatient), Emergency Medicine practitioners with interest in learning pediatric-specific applications of point-of-care ultrasound

Course content

Based on the FEEL and FATE clinical-ultrasound protocols.
Minimum theoretical exposures and subsequent practice tutoring in healthy models.

The course is held in two days and is divided into three parts: Oral Presentations, Interactive Discussion of real Clinical Cases and Hands-On Practice and Mentoring on healthy models.
The trainers are experts in point-of-care ultrasound and have an extensive experience in teaching.

They provide participants with a remarkable amount of practical learnings, simulations and interactive cases.

Course outline

Day 1. Diagnostics-Core applications, pediatric-specfic applications

  • Introduction to Pediatric POCUS
  • Physics, Knobology
  • E-FAST
  • Focused Cardiac
  • Lung Ultrasound ( Pneumothorax, pleural effusions, pneumonias, interstitial syndromes)
  • Pediatric Abdomen I ( Renal/bladder, gailbladder)
  • Pediatric Abdomen II ( Appendicitis, intussusception, pyloric stenosis, bowel obstruction, constipation )
  • Pediatric RUSH Protocol, Case-based Review

Day 2: Procedural pediatric applications

  • Introduction to procedures
  • Vascular Acces
  • Soft Tissue ( celulitis, Abscess, foreign bodies)
  • Musculoskeletal ( fractures, joint effusions)
  • Training/accreditation for Pecus/WINFOCUS, Q&A Session

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    Testimonials

    • Prof. Aleksander N. Neskovic

      A blend of superb educational material, contagious passion for teaching, and PoCUS competence of the highest level. Really kind of a “dream course” for any Focused Cardiac Ultrasound learner.

      - Associated Professor in Medicine and Cardiology Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade - Serbia Chair of the Writing Committees for the EACVI recommendations on emergency echocardiography (2013), and position paper and core syllabus and core curriculum on Focus Cardiac Ultrasound (2014 and 2018)

    • Guido Tavazzi, MD

      “Taking the WINFOCUS FoCUS course when I was a resident or fellow would have made my PoCUS education more immediate and effective. The course is up to date with the most recent recommendations, and the level of lectures is of absolute excellence. I strongly recommend it to every physician who manages critical patients.”

      - Assistant Professor in Intensive care, University of Pavia - Italy ESC-Acute CardioVascular Association Board member ESC- professional Board member EDEC-Steering Committee member

    • Alberto Goffi, MD

      “The WINFOCUS Academy offers a comprehensive POCUS educational format beyond the typical "spot-the-pathology" approach. With the aim of mastering POCUS competence, it equips learners with the necessary skills to effectively incorporate POCUS into their patient management in real-world clinical scenarios. This much-needed resource has been a long time coming.”

      - Associate Professor, Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, University of Toronto, Canada Education Co-Lead, St. Michael’s Hospital Critical Care Medicine Department, Toronto, Canada