Cardiac

What you will learn

• Using POCUS to assess cardiac function and contractility
• How to assess intravascular fluid status and fluid responsiveness
• Different methods, including eyeballing, internal vena cava size and collapsibility, velocity time integral, and calculate assess cardiac output
• How to locate the tip of umbilical venous catheter using ultrasound
• Anatomy of ductus venosus, portal sinus, umbilical venous catheter track
• Optimal UVC tip and abnormal positions
• How to assess pericardial effusion
• How to identify life-threatening condition - pericardial tamponade