u.STAR (Ultrasound in Shock, Trauma and Resuscitation)

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Course Location

Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre (Bayview Campus)

Course Time & Schedule

Saturday: 1:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Course fees: $300

This course focuses on how to use ultrasound for the resuscitation of critically ill medical and trauma patients. There is a mix of lectures, videos, hands-on practice with ultrasound machines and live models, and simulation. There is a focus on ensuring all participants maximize the amount of hands-on scanning practice during the course.

The topics include using ultrasound for:

• Abdominal free fluid
• Volume status (IVC)
• Pericardial effusions (basic and advanced views)
• Pneumothorax
• Hemothorax
• Other advanced applications

This course is appropriate for any experience level with ultrasound from novice to advanced. This course is appropriate for any health care practitioner (physicians, nurses, paramedics, physician assistants) who wants to learn how to use ultrasound to help with patient care.

There are no prerequisites to taking this course

• A course completion certificate is issued upon completion of the course

This course qualifies for 3 hours of Mainpro-M2 credits (College of Family Physicians) or 3 hours of Mainport Section 1 Small Group Session (RCPSC) CME credits.

Mainpro+ Credits (CFPC)
Although this program has not been formally reviewed and approved by the CFPC, participants may claim 1 credit per hour of participation as Non-Certified Group Learning in Mainpro+. For more details, visit the College of Family Physicians of Canada website or Heart & Stroke Foundation.

1300 – Welcome and Ultrasound Basics
1315 – Abdominal Free fluid and IVC volume status lecture
1330 – Introduction to ultrasound machine basics
1335 – Abdominal and IVC ultrasound scanning
1415 – Basic and Advanced Cardiac ultrasound lecture
1435 – Basic and Advanced Cardiac ultrasound scanning
1515 – Thoracic ultrasound lecture (pneumotharax, interstitial edema, contusions, pleural effusions, hemothorax)
1535 – Thoracic ultrasound scanning
1615 – Advanced applications and review lecture

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No prior ultrasound experience is necessary. However, the course is clinically focused and a solid background of clinical experience in a health-care setting is highly recommended.

Course Location

Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre (Bayview Campus)

Course Time & Schedule

Saturday: 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

• Jan 27
• Jun 29
• Oct 26

Course Fee

Resident/RN/PA/NP/Paramedic: $499
MD/Dentist: $599

• 0900 – 0915 Participants arrive, enjoy coffee and light breakfast
• 0915 – 0930 Knobology and physics lecture
• 0930 – 1015 Subxiphoid cardiac, aorta and IVC lectures
• 1015 – 1100 Scanning - basic cardiac, aorta and IVC
• 1000 – 1115 BREAK
• 1115 – 1130 Pneumothorax lecture
• 1130 – 1200 Scanning - Pneumothorax
• 1200 – 1245 LUNCH 
• 1245 – 1315 Advanced cardiac (PSL, PSS, A4C) lecture
• 1315 – 1400 Scanning - advanced cardiac
• 1400 – 1415 BREAK
• 1415 – 1445 Abdomen and pleural fluid lectures
• 1445 – 1530 Scanning - abdo and pleural fluid
• 1530 - 1545 Vascular access (central line, peripheral lines) lecture
• 1545 - 1700 Scanning - vascuar access and simulation cases

This course qualifies for 7 hours of Mainpro-M2 credits (College of Family Physicians), or 7 hours of Mainport Section 1 Small Group Session (RCPSC) CME credits.

Mainpro+ Credits (CFPC)
Although this program has not been formally reviewed and approved by the CFPC, participants may claim 1 credit per hour of participation as Non-Certified Group Learning in Mainpro+. For more details, visit the College of Family Physicians of Canada website or Heart & Stroke Foundation.

Our participants say:

“Best day-long course I have done in eons!”