GCUS Abdominal and Primary Care Ultrasound 2022 (Gulfcoast Ultrasound Institute) (Videos)

GCUS Abdominal and Primary Care Ultrasound 2022 (Gulfcoast Ultrasound Institute) (Videos)

OBJECTIVES

• Demonstrate the participant’s knowledge to better perform and/or interpret abdominal ultrasound examinations.
• Demonstrate proper transducer manipulation and system optimization to produce diagnostic images.
• Perform scan protocols and routine measurements that are utilized during an abdominal ultrasound evaluation.
• Identify normal/abnormal imaging characteristics of the liver, gallbladder, pancreas, spleen, kidneys and abdominal vasculature.
• Differentiate normal/abnormal characteristics for the evaluation of the thyroid, testes/scrotum, and appendix.
• Perform an ultrasound evaluation of the trauma patient.
• Demonstrate the use of ultrasound for evaluation of soft-tissue pathology.
• Demonstrate competence to incorporate protocols, scan techniques and interpretation criteria to improve diagnostic/treatment accuracy.

AUDIENCE

• Sonographers, physicians, PAs and other medical professionals learning how to perform and/or interpret abdominal sonography. Physician participants may include (but are not limited to) those involved with: primary care, internal medicine, emergency medicine, critical care, hospitalists, trauma, gastroenterology, and urology.

TOPICS

• Imaging Fundamentals: The Basics
• Abdominal Sonography Anatomy and Scan Fundamentals
• Ultrasound Evaluation of the Abdominal Aorta
• Normal Liver, Gallbladder, Biliary Tree, and Spleen Sonography
• Ultrasound Evaluation of Liver, Gallbladder, and Biliary Tree Pathology
• Renal Sonography and Pathology
• Ultrasound Evaluation of the Pancreas
• The EFAST Exam
• Ultrasound Evaluation of the Appendix and GI Tract
• Ultrasound Evaluation of the Thyroid
• Scrotal Ultrasound
• Ultrasound Evaluation of Soft Tissues
• Abdominal Case Studies