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POCUS Curricula

POCUS Curricula

We offer ready-to-use POCUS curricula developed with experts which allow Ultrasound Mentor trainers to get started right away and build more customized training as you grow your program.

This curricula includes core POCUS applications, and offers the essential background and simulation assignments required to hone the skills and core competencies of POCUS. The curricula serves as a framework for Point-of-Care Ultrasound training with a wide range of specialties, and includes automated, objective trainee assessment.

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Objectives

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  • Learn the indications, benefits, and limitations of POCUS
  • Gain experience in obtaining and interpreting sonographic images
  • Practice anatomical and pathology assessment using POCUS
  • Practice sonographic result documentation
  • Utilize POCUS to decrease time in diagnosing, decrease procedure complications, and expedite medical care
  • Assess trainee competency in POCUS

Spectrum Health POCUS Simulation-based Curriculum

Author: David Langholz, MD, FACC, Heart Failure & Transplant Cardiology Specialist, Spectrum Health Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA.

 

 

Topics Covered

  1. e-FAST and RUSH
  2. Cardiac – Advanced Echo
  3. Cardiac – Bedside Echo
  4. Thorax – Lung
  5. Abdominal Aorta

Simulation-based Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS) Curriculum

Author: Dr. Stephan Katzenschlager, Department of Anesthesiology, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany.

Author: Dr. Gustav Huber, MBA, Cardiology Consultant, Center for Internal Medicine, Vienna, Austria.

 

Topics Covered

  1. Abdominal Ultrasound – Gallbladder, Kidney
  2. Trauma – eFAST and Lung
  3. Lung Ultrasound
  4. Echo – Cardiac
  5. Echo – Pulmonary
  6. Echo – Aortic

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