Emergency and Critical Care Ultrasound Essentials
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Chapter 1
Free lectures
In this free lecture series, you will learn why the heart is so important and which scary situations you will be able to diagnose with an ultrasound of the heart. Also, you will learn about why you should do a lung ultrasound and how it works.
2 lectures and 0 quizzes
Lectures & Quizzes:
Free lecture 1 (00:07)
Free lecture 2 (00:07)
Chapter 2
Introduction
Find out why POCUS ultrasound is so important in critical care scenarios, which approach you should use and which instrumentation you should use. In this chapter we will also show you how to apply POCUS ultrasound in cardiac arrest and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).
2 lectures and 1 quizzes
Lectures & Quizzes:
Introduction - Ultrasound to the ICU (00:09)
Echo in advanced life support (00:09)
EmCC - Introduction
Chapter 3
Heart
We will introduce you to the basic echocardiographic views used in emergency sonography and teach you the essentials around LVF and RVF, acute coronary syndrome, pericardial effusion, cardiac tamponade, and valvular heart disease.
6 lectures and 1 quizzes
Lectures & Quizzes:
Imaging the heart - in the ED (00:17)
Left & right ventricular function - where is the problem? (00:19)
Chest pain - Differential diagnosis (00:10)
Chest pain - Imaging approach (00:06)
Pericardial effusion (00:29)
Valvular problems – a story of regurgitation & stenosis (00:31)
EmCC - Heart
Chapter 4
Lung
Learn how to approach lung ultrasound for detecting and differentiating consolidations, pleural effusion, and pulmonary edema and how to diagnose pneumothorax with ultrasound.
3 lectures and 1 quizzes
Lectures & Quizzes:
Sonoanatomy, LUS in Covid-19 & visual scoring (00:27)
Pleural effusion, pulmonary edema & consolidations (00:19)
How to rule out a pneumothorax (00:14)
EmCC - Lung
Chapter 5
Aorta
Master the topic of aortic pathologies, learn to quickly recognize aneurysms and dissections and make sure you don't miss the diagnosis of aortic rupture. Many ultrasound image examples and live demos will guide you through this topic.
3 lectures and 1 quizzes
Lectures & Quizzes:
Aortic aneurysm & dissection - Basics (00:06)
Imaging the Aorta (00:10)
Aortic aneurysm & dissection - Case examples (00:08)
EmCC - Aorta
Chapter 6
Pulmonary Embolism - DVT
Did you know that there are direct and indirect signs of pulmonary embolisms that you can find in lung ultrasound? We teach you how to link them to your clinical findings. We also demonstrate how to diagnose or rule out a deep vein thrombosis of the lower extremity.
2 lectures and 1 quizzes
Lectures & Quizzes:
Pulmonary embolism – What does the thrombus do? (00:26)
Detecting DVT with compression sonography (00:09)
EmCC - DVT/Pulmonary embolism
Chapter 7
Clinical eFAST in abdominal pain
Learn how to use the eFAST protocol in trauma settings and in a clinically oriented ultrasound of the heart, lungs, and abdomen in patients with acute abdominal pain, chest pain, or dyspnea.
3 lectures and 1 quizzes
Lectures & Quizzes:
The right upper quadrant & the right lateral thorax (00:22)
The left upper quadrant, the left lateral & the anterior thorax (00:07)
The heart, the bladder & the great vessels (00:12)
EmCC - eFAST
Chapter 8
Hypotension, shock and syncope
Find out why echo is essential in hypotension, syncope, and different kinds of shock! We teach you a simple approach to this broad topic and put everything into context with many case examples.
4 lectures and 1 quizzes
Lectures & Quizzes:
Overview / Basics (00:09)
Imaging and specific findings (00:07)
Hemodynamic assessment (00:12)
Case studies (00:12)
EmCC - Hypotension / Shock / Syncope
Objectives
This online video course provides the "essentials" of emergency ultrasound.
We will cover theoretical and practical aspects of common and often critical pathologies.
Also, you will learn several potentially life-threatening conditions.
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