Why Attend Advanced?
This 1-day advanced course is designed to meet the needs of Emergency Medicine professionals who already have a good working knowledge of point-of-care ultrasound. Course participants will expand their ultrasound capabilities to further incorporate use of ultrasound in the assessment of critically ill patients, as well as improve their ultrasound procedural skills.

Audience: Individuals finding this course content valuable may include but are not limited to emergency medicine, internal medicine, family medicine, critical care physicians, hospitalists and advanced practice providers.

Advanced Practice Scanning Sessions Include:
Advanced Cardiac – Review of basics + aortic aneurysm/dissection, tamponade physiology, findings of acute right heart strain/PE, systolic function/hemodynamic assessment, basic valvular assessment
Pulmonary – Thoracic scanning, including evaluation for effusions, consolidation, PTX, CHF
Resuscitation – Protocols for evaluating undifferentiated hypotension, further integrating ultrasound in the care of the critical patient
Procedural – Practice thoracentesis, paracentesis, vascular access and FB localization on simulators and much more!
Soft Tissue/MSK – Abscess identification/drainage, foreign body identification/removal, tendon injury, joint effusion and fracture evaluation.
Ocular – Scanning technique for evaluation of retinal detachment, vitreous hemorrhage, increased ICP