critical care – Western Sono

2016 Canadian Resuscitative Ultrasound Course – A Resounding Success

arntfield — Fri, 26 Aug 2016 19:59:27 +0000

With 72 learners, 25 faculty and 2.5 days of high intensity, resuscitative ultrasound training, the 2016 CRUS course outdid itself even this year. In addition to the usual features of the course like a flipped classroom curriculum (eliminating lectures altogether), 5 hours a day of practical training and a 2:1 learner to trainer bedside ratio, this course offered a new general simulation station (ultrasound integrated, of course), star studded local, national and international faculty and a showcase of the newest and most innovative ultrasound techniques and equipment. Also, this year, lunchtime Kahoot sessions and an optional third day was added to address the growing interest in learning advanced echocardiographic techniques to be applied at the point-of-care were exciting additions to our program.

A huge thank you to all those learners, faculty, vendors and staff (esp the CSTAR staff and Rebecca Rondinelli) for making this a memorable experience!

This scale of course can only happen once a year so mark your calendars for the 2017 course which will take place on August 17 and 18 2017. Keep tabs on this website for announcements or, if you would like to be emailed when course registration for 2017 opens, please email Tammy Mills at [email protected]

For some snaps of the course this year, see our gallery below.

Energized Participants and Expert Faculty Make CCUS 2015 Another Winner

arntfield — Mon, 31 Aug 2015 01:21:29 +0000

Critical Care Western’s highly successful, annual critical care ultrasound course was held on August 20th and 21st 2015. The 6th iteration of the course offered a record-breaking 72 participants the opportunity to be trained in the application of critical care ultrasound and critical care echocardiography. Using a flipped classroom approach, where 5 hours of lecture content is given ahead of time (online), the course offers 10 hours of practical training in image acquisition and interpretation.

See pictures from the course here.

An additional highlight of the course this year was the live stream of an in vivo critical care echocardiogram from Montreal. Highlighting a new software program called Reacts, this session was able to bring our audience of 100 faculty and particpants to the bedside in an ICU to interpret real time, echo images. Simply outstanding.

Clips here recorded from Reacts (poor audio from our London end due to being in an auditorium)

A review of the basic cardiac views and 3D perspectives using “assets” in the Reacts platform:

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Echopalooza with real time critical care echo in Montreal streaming to our participants in London:

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Interested in next year’s course? It will be August 18, 19 2016. Please email Tammy at [email protected] to express your interest and to reserve a spot. The course is full every year with a wait list so don’t wait!

2015 Critical Care Ultrasound Course – Open for Registration

arntfield — Tue, 07 Apr 2015 14:50:40 +0000

The 6th annual Western University Critical Care Ultrasound Course is now open for registration!

The brochure for the course can be found here CCUS 2015

The 2 day course, directed by Dr. Rob Arntfield, is being held on August 20th and Aug 21st, 2015 at University Hospital in London, Ontario and is the biggest, most comprehensive course of its kind offered in Canada. It is ideal for any clinician involved in resuscitation, such as intensivists, emergency physicians, general internists and anesthesiologists.

The course emphasizes resuscitative ultrasound in the following domains:

-critical care echocardiography
-lung and pleural ultrasound
-abdominal free fluid
-ultrasound guided vascular access (central, peripheral – incl PICC lines, arterial)
-DVT

See images from last year’s course here.

The course is designed to maximize time spent engaged in practical skills like scanning or practicing image interpretation:

-exceptional participant to faculty ratio of 2:1 for bedside scanning instruction
-lecture content made available online for self-study before course (available 4 weeks ahead of course)
-on day of course: very brief lectures with live demonstration reviewing contents from pre-course lectures
-Sono-social the first night of the course with dinner and live music!

Along with our talented local faculty, guest faculty this year include Drs. Bret Nelson (Mt Sinai, NYC), Pierre Kory (U of Wisonsin) and Scott Millington (U of Ottawa).

To register and for more details please go to this link: http://www.cvent.com/d/k4qtc2

The brochure for the course can be found here CCUS 2015

Contact [email protected] with any questions.

CCUS 2014: Biggest, best ultrasound course of its kind in Canada

arntfield — Sun, 24 Aug 2014 02:53:47 +0000

As far as critical care and resuscitative ultrasound courses go – this is the most state of the art, progressive and star-studded faculty-loaded course of its kind in Canada and, dare we say, North America. 2 full days of critical care ultrasound with a flipped classroom format, minimal lecture time and, for those short lectures we did include, high tech 3 screen display. The course also included a live session from Montreal demonstrating critical care echo, “in vivo” in the ICU environment on a real patient.

Some images of the course are below. A tremendous achievement for the faculty, for the WesternSono program and a really excellent demonstration of the sophistication and organizational abilities of CSTAR – the hosting facility and personnel in the University Hospital teaching space.

Stay tuned for CCUS 2015: August 20th and 21st 2015 here in London.

2014 Critical Care Ultrasound Course – Open for Registration

arntfield — Thu, 15 May 2014 16:19:20 +0000

The 5th annual Western University Critical Care Ultrasound Course is now open for registration!

The 2 day course, directed by Dr. Rob Arntfield, is being held on August 21st and Aug 22nd, 2014 at University Hospital in London, Ontario and is the biggest, most comprehensive course of its kind offered in Canada. It is ideal for any clinician involved in resuscitation, such as intensivists, emergency physicians and anesthesiologists.

The course emphasizes resuscitative ultrasound in the following domains:

-critical care echocardiography
-lung and pleural ultrasound
-abdominal free fluid
-ultrasound guided vascular access (central, peripheral – incl PICC lines, arterial)

See images from last year’s course here.

The course is designed to maximize time spent engaged in practical skills like scanning or practicing image interpretation:

Along with a star studded list of local Western University faculty, the course this year will host 2 excellent visiting faculty:

Dr. Paul Mayo – intensivist and the godfather of critical care ultrasound from NY, NY. He needs no further introduction.

Dr. Scott Millington – intensivist, ACCP echo course leader, U of Ottawa critical care ultrasound director.

To register and for more details please go to this link: http://www.cvent.com/d/04q2bq

The course brochure can be downloaded here

Contact [email protected] with any questions

Lung Ultrasound – Interpreting the lung and pleural “signatures”

arntfield — Sat, 12 Oct 2013 20:41:53 +0000

In follow up to the tutorial on lung ultrasound image acquisition, this tutorial reviews the essential “signatures” of lung and pleural ultrasound that guide image interpretation.

Go ahead – take 20 minutes and unlock the power of lung ultrasound through this review of the 5 essential findings:

1. Lung sliding (along with lung pulse, lung point)
2. A lines
3. B lines
4. Consolidation
5. Effusion

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uv6zI4QHYss&w=420&h=315]

Critical Care Grand Rounds: Rob Arntfield

arntfield — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 18:18:32 +0000

March 22 2013 at Critical Care Western’s citywide grand rounds, had their own Rob Arntfield speak about critical care ultrasound in his talk: Critical Care Ultrasound: Revolution to Adolescence. Covering a broad array of topics related to CCUS, discussion over history and content of CCUS, the national and local approach to advancing CCUS and an in depth discussion on quality and safety, featuring some local data. Check it out!

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