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The team at Royal Prince Alfred's Emergency Department are proud to announce their upcoming Critical Care Sonography Course... DATES: 26/02 to 01/03, 2018 LOCATION: Kerry Packer Building, RPAH For more details email the team at ccsonography@gmail.com   After nearly three years of preparation and regional meetings the Emergency Medicine Ultrasound Groups regional teams are coming together for the first time! Months of planning has brought together an excellent gathering of Australian, New Zealand and international speakers to deliver a new wave of POCUS training and educational topics and approaches. The EMUGS sessions are part of the ACEM ASM so to join one or all of our sessions register via acem2017.com/ and also via the following eventbrite registration for logistical/organisation reasons: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/emugs-the-acem-annual-scientific-meeting-tickets-38800342870?aff=es2 NOTE: The EMUGs sessions are free to all ACEM ASM attendees. Any EMUGs donations are appreciated. This enables the Admin Team to provide essential support for all EMUGs projects. Point of Care Ultrasound is now an essential skill of Fellowship trained Emergency Physicians. It is widely supported in national and international guidelines for a host of clinical settings, most notably expediting the appropriate care of both traumatically injured and critically unwell patients as well as in the performance of needle-guided techniques such as central line insertion.   The case:
A 35 female was brought to ED by ambulance following a sudden collapse at home. At the scene – skin cold, Blood Pressure un-recordable, semi-conscious.
Resuscitative thoracotomy performed in the Emergency Department is often utilised as a final salvage manoeuvre, however the procedure does yield survivors. In one of the largest series to date a survival rate of 7.4% occurred with normal neurologic function in 92.4% of survivors whilst London HEMS boasts a 17.8% long-term survival rate for their pre-hospital thoracotomies. There is however no universally accepted criteria for who should and should not undergo this emergent procedure.
 EMUGs has a number of ongoing projects including liaison with and support of ultrasound educators in other developing world countries.
Point of care diagnostic and procedural ultrasound has massive potential benefits in these countries with poor access to other radiological modalities in many areas. As part of the EMUGs Second Sessions on the 10th Sept we organised fundraising for one of Nepal’s leading Ultrasound educators, Dr Gentle Sunder Shrestha, Critical Care Physician, Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital, Kathmandu. Our aim is to bring Dr Shrestha to Australia to attend an Advanced course in PoCUS so that he can bring that extra skill-set and knowledge back to those who he teaches in Kathmandu and in rural areas. The Certificate in Clinician Performed UltrasoundIt takes some time and effort… but it will make you better at ultrasound AND you will become credentialed and can teach/supervise other ultrasound users.
This post is likely to get a few people talking. Some valid points made in the comment section also. |
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