Core Ultrasound Intensive Care (CUSIC) course 27th February 2017

This course is now fully booked, next course is on 4th May 2017.

Target audience: Trainees and consultant in intensive care medicine.

Faculty: Murray Blackstock, Rosie Baruah, Michael Gillies, Stuart McLellan – Consultants in Critical Care,NHS Lothian, Edinburgh.

Contact:rosaleen.baruah@nhs.net

Programme
Time Codes in parentheses refer to RCoA CPD Matrix
08:45 Registration and coffee
09:00 Introduction - CUSIC syllabus and accreditation
09:15 LECTURE: Physics and knobology (1A03, 1F03, 3C00)
09:45 LECTURE: Lung US – pneumothorax, effusion, consolidation and AIS (1A03, 2C01, 2C04, 3C00)
10:45 Coffee
11:15 SCANNING: Lung US (1A03, 2C01, 2C04, 3C00)
12:15 LECTURE: Abdominal US and lung bases (1A03,  2C01, 2C04, 3C00)
13:00 Lunch
13:45 SCANNING: abdominal US and lung bases (1A03, 2C01, 2C04, 3C00)
14:45 LECTURE: Vascular US and needling techniques (1A03, 2C01, 2D03, 2C04, 3C00)
15:15 SCANNING: Vascular US and needling techniques (1A03, 2C01, 2D04, 2C04, 3C00)
15:45 Coffee
16:00 SCANNING: CUSIC scanning and the BLUE protocol  (1A03, 2C01, 2C04, 3C00)
16:45 Clips session
17:15 Questions/summary/feedback
17:30 Close