WINFOCUS

CRITICAL CARE
ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY

3-4 October 2015

ACC, Hospital Raja Permaisuri Bainun,
Ipoh

BASIC Focused Cardiac

Ultrasound
Italian CME Credits
applied for
BSE re-accreditation Credits applied for

An International Course for Emergency,

Intensive and Critical Care physiciancs
designed and organized by the

WINFOCUS
ECHO-Group
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course on Echocardiography specifically designed for Intensive, Critical Care

and Emergency Physicians, The WF BASIC ECHO - FOCUSED

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY Course is targeted at
physicians who are new to
Echocardiography, and covers the use of Transthoracic Echocardiography (TTE) in the
setting of cardiac arrest/peri-resuscitation, and as a screening tool for the unstable
patient in the ICU/emergency. This module on basic Echo includes the internationally
well-known formats of FEEL Focused Echocardiography Evaluation in Life support) and
FATE (Focused Assessment with Transthoracic Echocardiography), and might also be
of interest to more Echo-experienced intensivists or cardiologists wishing to make their
focused Echo assessment of the critical patient more effective.

The faculty gathers reknown experts in the use of and training in Echocardiography in

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WF BASIC ECHO (WBE)

Focused Cardiac Ultrasound

Day 1

PERIRESUSCITATION CARDIAC ULTRASOUND

8.30

Welcome, course instructions

8.35

Focused Cardiac Ultrasound in Critical Care: aims and place in

echocardiography training

8.50

Basic TTE views & eyeballing principles

9.20

Basic assessment of LV function

9.40

Basic assessment of RV function

10.00

Coffee

10.20

HANDS ON TRAINING (HOT 1): 6 WORKSTATIONS

12.30

Lunch

13.45

Basic assessment of volume status

13.55

Basic assessment of tamponade

14.15

Focused Cardiac Ultrasound in cardiac arrest

14.45

Lung ultrasound in cardiac arrest & shock: pneumothorax, wet lung

15.05

Break

15.20

HANDS ON TRAINING (HOT 2): 6 WORKSTATIONS (All faculty)

18.00

End of first day

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(All faculty)

Day 2

APPROACH TO SHOCK

8.30

Basic valves assessment

8.45

Basic 2-D Echo knobology

9.00

Approach to shock

9.30

Pitfalls and limitations of focused echocardiography

10.00

Coffee

10.20

INTERACTIVE CASE SESSION

11.30

End of Course & Certificate distribution

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