Workshop 10: 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

1. Describe proper gastric ultrasound transducer placement and sonoanatomy
2. Describe gastric contents qualitatively based on ultrasound presentation
3. 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