Basic Ultrasound for Paediatrics (CACTUS) Course

Description

This course covers ultrasound equipment, probes and the most important controls (probe selection, presets, depth, gain, freeze, linear measurement, colour-flow Doppler and M-mode).

The topics covered include:

• vascular access,
• lung ultrasound,
• basic cardiac ultrasound (ECHO),
• abdominal ultrasound including liver, kidney and bladder localisation and the identification of free fluid,
• nerve identification for local anaesthetic infiltration.

The course is approved by the Intensive Care Society (ICS) and Paediatric Critical Care Society and is suitable for those pursuing accreditation in CACTUS (Children’s Acute Ultrasound) Lung. It is also accredited for CACTUS Heart, which will be launched by ICS soon.