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By completing this course, you will gain the ability to:
Note: While we’ll equip you with the how-tos, the decision of when to perform focused ultrasonography remains context-dependent, factoring in your judgement, the patient’s situation, and the specific setting.
Throughout this course, we’ll explore answers to critical questions that ultrasound can help address. These range from evaluating cardiac conditions to discerning lung and abdominal anomalies, ensuring you can make informed decisions in critical moments.
Key focused questions addressed in this course:
Heart:
Lung:
Abdomen:
The focused questions selected for this e-learning is based on their importance in all three phases of the perioperative patient course
Pre-operative
• Preperation/monitoring
• Anesthesia method and medication choice
Intra-operative
• Differentiating causes of refractory hypotension
Post-operative
• Assessment of postoperative complications
• Choice of postoperative care competences
Whether a certain examination is of importance or not depends on the situation, the patient, you, and your organization.
*Morten”: Ændr billede til anæstesilæge der skanner patient på OP stue.
Point-of-Care Ultrasound (PoCUS) is the use of ultrasound at the bedside to either guide a procedure or answer a clinical question.
PoCUS is about leveraging ultrasound right at the patient’s bedside, either to guide a procedure or to answer a pressing clinical question. In this course, we train you to wield the ultrasound transducer for diagnostic purposes, honing in on the essentials to address foundational questions in perioperative medicine. We’ve distilled the content to its core, ensuring you master focused ultrasound in a perioperative context without any superfluous information.
Compared to protocolized ultrasonography, this course represents a paradigm shift as it applies specific parts of the systematic ultrasound examinations to solve specific clinical issues. There are no algorithms and no protocol names.
Only the necessary examinations are performed – and they depend on you and the clinical questions you ask regarding your patient.
You do not have to stick to a specific protocol!
Basic UGRA (Ultrasound Guided Regional Anaesthesia) consists of easily learned and safe peripheral nerve blocks allowing effective perioperative analgesia for the majority of surgical procedures involving the upper and lower limbs and the anterolateral abdominal wall
The basic nerve blocks are exclusively performed as single shot injections using the in-plane needle approach to the target nerve
The learning objectives of the basic ultrasound guided regional anaesthesia program are:
– Understanding the basic anatomy and sonoanatomy of the basic nerve blocks
– Understanding how to perform each of the basic nerve blocks
– Knowledge about the pitfalls
Basic UGRA (Ultrasound Guided Regional Anaesthesia) consists of easily learned and safe peripheral nerve blocks allowing effective perioperative analgesia for the majority of surgical procedures involving the upper and lower limbs and the anterolateral abdominal wall
The basic nerve blocks are exclusively performed as single shot injections using the in-plane needle approach to the target nerve
The learning objectives of the basic ultrasound guided regional anaesthesia program are:
– Understanding the basic anatomy and sonoanatomy of the basic nerve blocks
– Understanding how to perform each of the basic nerve blocks
– Knowledge about the pitfalls
By completing this course you will learn:
• How to perform the focused ultrasonography examinations that are essential in emergency care
• What to look for
• How to answer nine focused questions that make a difference in emergency care
We will not teach you when to perform focused ultrasonography – this depends on you, the patient and the setting.
