Advanced Perioperative Point-of-Care Ultrasound Course

This is the much-anticipated Advanced Perioperative Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS) Course, requested by those who have completed the ASRA Pain Medicine Introduction to POCUS course. It is a master skills live immersion developed and offered by the ASRA Pain Medicine POCUS course directors and senior faculty, in response to the demand for an advanced course. If you have any questions about whether this course is right for you, please send your questions to  asrameetings@asra.com. We are happy to help find the best course to meet your needs.

After participating in this educational activity, participants should be able to:

• Demonstrate the techniques and utility of advanced cardiac ultrasound
• Integrate Doppler ultrasound principles for pressure and cardiac output estimation using advanced Focus Assessed Transthoracic Echocardiography (FATE)
• Apply diastology of the heart into clinical practice
• Evaluate lung pathologies using integrated cardiac and lung ultrasound
• Assess intracranial pathologies using ocular and transcranial ultrasound
• Estimate fluid and hemodynamic status
• Assess systemic congestion using venous doppler ultrasound
• Utilize a variety of ultrasound machines to learn advanced POCUS
• Predict the limitations of cardiac ultrasound
• Practice advanced point of care ultrasound for enhanced patient care