Echo
2 days
FELS & Lung Ultrasound Course (Anaesthetics)
ASUM, ACEM, ANZCA, CICM
Course highlights
- Focused Echocardiography in Life Support (FELS)
- Lung ultrasound
- Inferior Vena Cava (IVC)
Course Dates
Description
This intensive two-day FELS course (formerly BELS) is designed for Clinicians interested in ultrasound techniques useful in life threatening scenarios and is constantly revised to reflect current practice.
This course provides participants with tuition in basic physical principles, understanding of sonographic planes, terminology, measurements and probe manipulation skills, along with techniques involved in Focused Echocardiography in Life Support (FELS), lung ultrasound and Inferior Vena Cava (IVC) or the “LCI approach” (Lung, Cardiac and IVC).
Who should attend?
- Anaesthetist
- Cardio-thoracic Surgeon
- Emergency Physician
- General Physician
- General Practitioner
- General Surgeon
- Geriatrician
- ICU Registrar
- Junior House Officer
- Nurse
- Nurse Practitioner
- Palliative Medicine Physician
- Paramedic
- Renal Physician
- Rural Generalist
- Sonographer
Meet the Faculty
Learn from our Sonographer Faculty and our Anaesthetics Faculty, combining scanning expertise with peri-operative and critical care expertise.
Prerequisites
The prior ultrasound experience assumed for this course is highlighted below.
| None/Minimal | Don’t use ultrasound |
| Limited | Use ultrasound weekly/monthly |
| Moderate/Experienced | Use ultrasound daily/weekly |
Accreditation
ASUM
CCPU units included in the course:
- Focused Echocardiography in Life Support (FELS)
- Basic Lung Ultrasound
ACEM
Approved for Educational Activities 15.75 hours.
ANZCA
Participants in the ANZCA and FPM CPD program may claim this this course under the Knowledge and Skills activity short format learning at 2 credits per hour.
CICM
Lectures – Category 2A, points per hour 1;
Demonstrations – Category 2B, points per hour 2;
Skills – Category 3B, points per hour 3.
HOURS
| Theoretical | 4.25 |
| Practical | 8.75 |
| Total | 13 |
CATERING
Morning tea, a light lunch and refreshments are provided each day.