Principles to Practice: Sonography Principles Instrumentation (SPI) Review
Presented by Fred Kremkau, PhD and Felicia Toreno, PhD
| 12:00pm | Echoes and Equations: The principles of sound in ultrasound |
| 12:45pm | Inside the Probe: Piezoelectricity, footprints, and frequency |
| 1:30pm | Pixels, Pulses, and Processing: The anatomy of an ultrasound image |
| 2:25pm | Break |
| 2:45pm | Ghosts in the Machine: Why artifacts happen |
| 3:15pm | Velocity and Veracity: Doppler physics and pitfalls |
| 4:00pm | Clean, Calibrated, and Clinically Safe: QA and safety essentials |
Ultrasound Guided Regional Anesthesia (in-person only)
Presented by Donald Byars, MD, Robert Reardon, MD, and Gavin Rogers, MD
| 12:00pm | Welcome: Right block, right patient, right now |
| 12:15pm | Meds that Matter: Dosing, duration, and additives |
| 12:45pm | The Greatest Hits: High-yield blocks for high value care |
| 1:35pm | Safe Blocks, Strong Outcomes: Preventing and managing adverse events |
| 1:55pm | Break |
| 2:15pm | The UGRA lab: Scan, Track, Inject |
| Hands on Stations: Sonographic anatomy and Needle Guidance Fascia Iliaca Block (FIB)/Pericapsular Nerve Group (PENG) Infra and supra clavicular blocks Erector Spinae Plane Block (ESPB) Nerve pro-section: Dermatome and myotome discussion | |
| 4:25pm | The Take Home Toolbox: Templates, Tips, and Next Steps |
Global Health Course: What High-Resource Systems Can Learn from POCUS in Low-Resource Setting
Presented by Larry Melniker, MD and Lindsay Taylor, MD
| 12:00pm | The Global State of Ultrasound. Framing the Situation |
| 12:50pm | Lean Innovations from Low-Resource Settings: The state of POCUS in LMIC |
| 1:40pm | High-Impact, Low-Complexity Pathways: The frugal diagnostic mindset |
| 2:30pm | Break |
| 2:50pm | Accelerated learning – does it really take $2000 to become competent? Innovations in learning POCUS |
| 3:40pm | Bureaucracy vs. Pragmatism – balancing safeguards and rules with getting things done |
| 4:30pm | Adjourn |
