CACTUS (Children’s Acute Ultrasound) 25th October 2023, Cambridge

£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

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

Westminster College
Madingley Road
Cambridge
CB3 0AA

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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 Michael Griksaitis, PICU Consultant, Southampton Children’s Hospital
  • Dr Dusan Raffaj, PICU Consultant, Nottingham Children’s Hospital
  • Dr Rupert Parker AICU Registrar, John Radcliffe Hospital Oxford
  • Dr Hiren Mehta, PICU & Retrieval Consultant, Paediatric and Neonatal Decision Support and Retrieval service
  • Dr Oliver Meller-Herbert, Clinical Fellow, Paediatric and Neonatal Decision Support and Retrieval service
  • Dr Sajeev Job, NICU Consultant, Paediatric and Neonatal Decision Support and Retrieval service
  • Dr Francesc Torres-Andres, PICU Consultant, Royal Hospital for Children Glasgow & Paediatric ScotSTAR Consultant

Course director

  • Dr Francesc Torres-Andres. PICU Consultant at Royal Hospital for Children Glasgow & ScotSTAR Consultant

Course organisers

  • Dr Juan R. V. Ortiz. PICU and PaNDR Consultant. Cambridge University Hospital
  • Dr Sajeev Job, NICU Consultant, Paediatric and Neonatal Decision Support and Retrieval service
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