2016 Emergency Medicine Ultrasound Course

Course Objectives: Participants will learn and demonstrate skills and knowledge of emergency ultrasonography through didactics and hands-on practice of point-of-care techniques.

Target Audience: Any clinician who is interested in the use of point-of-care ultrasound to evaluate emergency and critical ill patients.

Course Highlights:

• Lectures and Hands on instruction by expert emergency ultrasound faculty and fellows from over 6 hospitals in New England;
• In depth hands on instruction with diagnostic and procedural ultrasound;
• Core content and review of the basics - Scanning Method, FAST, Chest Wall, Renal, Gallbladder, Aorta;
• Vascular Access - central line and peripheral line access;
• Nerve Blocks;
• Lectures on Shock Ultrasound/Emergency Echocardiography/Soft Tissue and Musculoskeletal Ultrasound.

Accreditation:
This acrivity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of the American College of Emergency Physicians and Massachusetts College of Emergency Physicians. The American College of Emergency Physicians is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The American College of Emergency Physicians designates this live activity for a maximum of 9 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Approved by the American College of Emergency Physicians for 9 hour(s) of ACEP category I credit.