EMS Today 2019

Ultrasound Use in Prehospital Care & Resuscitations (Room Chesapeake DEF)

19 Feb 19
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Tracks: PRECON 4, Preconference Workshop

This workshop will guide you through the nuts and bolts of prehospital point-of-care ultrasonography (POCUS).  Led by Faizan H. Arshad, MD, and featuring a team of ultrasound industry experts, this four-hour workshop will do a deep dive into the clinical applications, efficacy, and patient case studies of ultrasound in the field changing patient outcomes.  From quickly differentiating from the etiologies of shock in your hypotensive patient to evaluating for a pericardial tamponade in your penetrating trauma victim, POCUS will help you answer meaningful clinical questions without adding to overall scene time.  This workshop will give you exceptional ultrasound education and two-hours of hands on experience live scanning. The areas of concentration will be: ECHO, E-FAST (extended focused assessment of sonography in trauma), abdomen and the use of US in Procedural Guidance.  You will rotate through four (4) different hands on stations every 30 minutes.  

Cost for this course is $125 early bird/ $150 regular. Early bird ends on Jan. 18, 2019