Gulfcoast Trauma & Acute Care Sonography 2019 Trauma Ultrasound Online Course is for emergency medicine, critical care, or point-of-care medical professionals and provides topics based ACEP emergency ultrasound practice guidelines. Taught by leading emergency medicine ultrasound expert faculty. This self-directed course contains eight (8) modules, online video lectures, case presentations, and post-activity quizzes. Enrollment is valid for 12 months (365 days) and begins the moment the participant is enrolled. Extend your online course access another 3 months by coordinating a private hands-on workshop at the GCUS education facility, registration for a regularly scheduled GCUS scan workshop, or onsite education for groups of 5 or more participants.

OBJECTIVES
– Demonstrate the participants knowledge to better perform and/or interpret trauma ultrasound examinations.
– State the basic fundamentals of ultrasound physics and demonstrate appropriate optimization of system controls.
– Perform ultrasound evaluation of the trauma patient and pneumothorax (e-FAST).
– Demonstrate scan protocols for focused evaluation of the adult heart.
– State an algorithm for uses of bedside ultrasound for differential diagnosis of shock in a trauma patient.
– Recognize the sonographic appearance of individual nerves and list the advantages provided when ultrasound is used for performing regional nerve blocks.
– Perform ultrasound evaluation of the lung, ocular, soft-tissue, musculoskeletal, and fractures.
– Perform ultrasound-guided vascular access.

TOPICS:
– Imaging Fundamentals
– Abdominal Scanning Fundamentals
– Ultrasound in Trauma (E-FAST)
– Focused Cardiac Ultrasound: 2D Cardiac Views, Differential Diagnosis of Shock in Trauma
*Obstructive
*Cardiogenic
*Hypovolemic
*Distributive
– Ultrasound-Guided Vascular Access
– Soft Tissue/MSK Ultrasound in Trauma
– Ultrasound-Guided Nerve Blocks
– Advanced Ultrasound-Guided Procedures
– Cases in Trauma

Date of Original Release: 8/22/2019

This edition valid for credit through: 8/22/2022