CACTUS (Children’s Acute Ultrasound) 23 October 2024, Mindray, Watford

£200.00

Fully booked

This is a one-day face-to-face course focused in acute and critical care point-of-care ultrasound in children. Point of care ultrasound (POCUS) is the bedside use of ultrasound to answer a specific diagnostic questions, assist with a procedure or track clinical progression.

The course is addressed at health professionals working in acute paediatrics, paediatric critical care and high dependency.

Fully booked

Description

Course date

  • 23rd October 2024, 8:30am (registration)

Introduction

This is a one-day face-to-face course focused in acute and critical care point-of-care ultrasound in children. Point of care ultrasound (POCUS) is the bedside use of ultrasound to answer a specific diagnostic questions, assist with a procedure or track clinical progression. The course is addressed at health professionals working in acute paediatrics, paediatric critical care and high dependency.

 

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CACTUS (Children’s Acute Ultrasound) is a two-part training and accreditation program modelled on CUSIC and FICE but bespoke to paediatric intensive care, emergency medicine and acute paediatrics. 

The program consists of a one-day course and subsequent competency development through practical skill acquisition, mentoring and accreditation at the POCUS trainee’s home institution or on a specific fellowship.

Click here for the ICS CACTUS accreditation

Course objectives

Lung POCUS

  • To understand basic physics and principles of ultrasound
  • Probe selection and image optimisation
  • Performance of systematic examination of lung and pleura
  • Recognition of normal thoracic structures and adjacent organs 
  • Identification of US appearances of normal aerated lung
  • Recognition of pleural fluid 
  • Use of ultrasound to exclude pneumothorax 

Cardiac POCUS

  • Performance of systematic examination of heart & vessels
  • Recognition of normal cardiac structures and adjacent organs 
  • Basic assessment on volume status and myocardial contractility
  • Assessment of pericardial effusion

Abdominal POCUS

  • Performance of systematic examination of all abdominal areas
  • Recognition of Normal Structures (liver, spleen, kidneys, bladder)
  • Recognition of intra-abdominal free fluid, full bladder, bowel peristalsis

Vascular POCUS

  • Identification of ultrasound appearances of normal vessels 
  • Knowledge of the benefits of longitudinal and of transverse scanning 
  • Understand the importance of two handed advancement, and the concept of “scanning the tip”

Location

Mindray Office
Hyde Building
Clarendon Road 38
Watford
England
WD17 1JW

5 min walk from Watford junction station.

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Cost

Course fee £200

Information for delegates

  • Upon completion of the CACTUS course there would then be a one off fee to PICS (£95 for members, £190 for non-members) to proceed with accreditation. This fee covers all administration costs of the CACTUS accreditation process and producing the certificate of competency at the end of the accreditation.
  • Meetings with the mentor, and costs incurred for the face-to-face final assessment, are the responsibility of the trainee.

Faculty

CACTUS Faculty & Instructors

  • Dr Dusan Raffaj, PICU Consultant, Nottingham Children’s Hospital
  • Dr Michael Griksaitis, PICU Consultant, Southampton Children’s Hospital
  • Avishay Sarfatti. PICU Consultant at Oxford University Hospital
  • Dr Hiren Mehta, PICU Consultant, Birmingham Children’s Hospital
  • David Bird. PICU Consultant at Nottingham University Hospital
  • Juan R. V. Ortiz. PICU Consultant, Course co-director and organiser.

Course directors

  • Dr Dusan Raffaj, PICU Consultant, Nottingham Children’s Hospital
  • Juan R. V. Ortiz. PICU Consultant, Course co-director and organiser.

Course organisers

  • Juan R. V. Ortiz. PICU Consultant, Course co-director and organiser.

Biographies

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