Workshop 8: POCUS Workshop

Overview

The Essentials Point-of-Care Ultrasound (PoCUS) Workshop is designed to introduce the participants to PoCUS studies that can be used as part of patient assessment in everyday clinical practice.

Target Audience

• CRNAs

Disclosures

• Individuals involved in the planning, reviewing or execution of this activity have indicated they have no relevant financial relationships to disclose.

Hands-On Workshop Learning Objectives:

Module I: Hands-On: Gastric Ultrasound Assessment

• Describe proper gastric ultrasound transducer placement and sonoanatomy
• Describe gastric contents qualitatively based on ultrasound presentation
• Identify parameters for determining quantitative gastric volume

Module II: Hands-On: Ultrasound-Guided Vascular Access Assessment

• Relate vascular functional anatomy to sonoanatomy
• Confirm arterial and venous flow using Doppler ultrasound
• Perform proper in-plane and out-of-plane needle insertion techniques

Module III: Hands-On: Ultrasound Assessment of the Airway and Pleura

• Identify the sonoanatomy of key anatomic structures in the anterior neck
• and pleura
• Demonstrate ultrasound assessment techniques to confirm endotracheal
  tube placement and location of the cricothyroid membrane
• Perform a lung ultrasound showing the criteria of the pleura

Agenda