Nepean Critical Care General Ultrasound

11 February 2012 - 12 February 2012

Swiss Grand Hotel, BONDI BEACH

The NICCER Critical Care General Ultrasound course provides specialised training in both theory and practise in the areas of vascular, lung and abdominal ultrasound.

It is a 2-day course covering: 

• Vascular ultrasound in thromboembolism
• Ultrasound-guided procedures
• Lung and pleural ultrasound
• Abdominal ultrasound

 

"This course offers a structured approach incorporating relevant theories, case presentations and hands-on trainings to enable you to gain skills readily transferable to your department for the benefit of your patients. The faculty consists of experts in critical care ultrasound. Participants will be taught basic physics of ultrasound, practical applications, and technique as well as potential pitfalls of applying general ultrasound for safe and efficient critical care practice."

International Guest Speaker Professor Paul Mayo, MD, FCCP
Medical Intensive Care Unit, Beth Israel Medical Center, New YorkProfessor

Paul Mayo is the Director of the Medical Intensive Care Unit at the Long Island Jewish Medical Centre, New York, and Clinical Professor of Medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Well recognised in critical care ultrasonography he has contributed to numerous book chapters and publications on practice and training in this field. He is the organiser of the ACCP Critical Care Ultrasonography training course, running workshops on a regular basis in the United States.

Places are still available, click here for more information. 

Pearls from Kingscliff

Here is the third presentation from Roger Harris' Bedside Critical Care Conference, 2011.

This time Anthony Holley discusses the ever popular and controversial topic of Goal Directed Therapy. It's case based, up to date, and he's a charismatic speaker.

Login and click here to listen and to get a free download of the presentation that goes with the talk. 

If you are preparing for the CICM exam, consider the Sydney written course. It's at Nepean hospital and is an excellent preparation for one of the toughest exams out there.

You'll also get a chance to meet three of the main Intensive Care Network contributors - Matthew Mac Partlin, Oli Flower and Liz Steel. So feel free to bring along any questions or requests. Praise and compliments will also be gratefully received :o)

Register here - there are still places!

Pearls from Kingscliff

Here is the second presentation from Roger Harris' Bedside Critical Care Conference, 2011.

This time Craig Hore uses a case to frame a discussion about emergency pacing with both transcutaneous and transvenous methods covered.

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Yahya Shehabi, Rinaldo Bellomo and Michael Reade have put together a review of sedation, agitation and delerium in the ICU and are running a set of focussed talks in Melbourne on the 23rd of May, the day before the CICM ASM is due to kick off. The proposed program is attached below as a pdf file and plans to address current thinking, including a review of some of the recent trials in the area, such as PRODEX, MIDEX and the two SPICE trials.

If you are interested in the topic, or you're just looking for potential exam topics, it might be worth a look through.

Cliff Reid, who runs the Resus.ME critical care blog, has posted three interesting article summaries to his site:

• The potential influence of a 7 day salbutamol infusion on ARDS outcome (Trial halted early due to mortality outcome concerns) ... Read more here
• The FIRST trial examines the influence of 0.9% saline versus HES 130.0.4 in trauma resuscitation in both penetrating and blunt trauma groups (Think SAFE study) ... Read more here
• A model demonstrating the potential for dual-lumen CRRT catheters to remove drugs infused through a co-located CVC (2cm appears to be the gap) ... Read more here

Thanks Cliff - We like!

Bedside Critical Care Podcasts: an Introduction

Here is an introduction to a forthcoming series of podcasts recorded at Roger Harris' Bedside Critical Care Conference, 2011.

Roger Harris explains what Kingscliff is all about, who it is for, why it's so good and about his love of disco and the didgeridoo.

Listen directly here or though iTunes here 

Captions welcome.....

Podcast #9: HFOV

By popular request David Collins' excellent talk on high frequency oscillatory ventilation  is now available as an audio only podcast on iTunes here or just the audio is here

The original video presentation is here on vimeo

David's powerpoint presentation can be seen and downloaded here

Podcast #8: An interesting case.

Try to work out what your differential would be and how you would investigate and manage this case.

Listen directly here or on iTunes here

The EMCRIT podcasts I referred to are here for the C-Spine and here for the paralytic debate

The Emergency Ultrasound podcast is here or on iTunes here

Jeff Guy's ICU round podcasts are here

And the article I referred to is in free fulltext here (don't look before you listen!)

Remember to leave feedback on iTunes and here

Pearls from Kingscliff

This is the first in a series of podcasts we'll be putting up from Roger Harris' Bedside Critical Care Conference, 2011.

Listen directly here or though iTunes here

In this succinct presentation, Ray Raper's discusses PEEP and pressure volume loops.

You can download and watch his slides here