Ultrasound Guided Procedures

This subject has the following teaching availabilities in 2015:

Course materials will be distributed via mail to students.

The course is 1 semester full-time or 2 semesters part-time via distance education. A semester duration is 12 weeks. For students completing full-time there will be four subjects per semester, and for part-time, two subjects per semester. Subjects must be taken in sequence.

170 hours per 12.5 credit point subject

To enrol in this subject, you must be admitted in either the Post Graduate Certificate or Post Graduate Diploma in Clinical Ultrasound. This subject is not available for students admitted in any other courses.

For the purposes of considering requests for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Cwth 2005), and Students Experiencing Academic Disadvantage Policy, academic requirements for this subject are articulated in the Subject Description, Subject Objectives, Generic Skills and Assessment Requirements of this entry.
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This subject will outline the technique of using ultrasound to guide percutaneous procedures. Procedures will include vessel access, nerve blocks, and trauma related procedures. There will be an elective of either "Nerve Blocks" or "Critical Care Procedures".

Topics include:

1. Ultrasound Guided Vascular Access
2. Nerve Blocks-Upper Limb
3. Nerve Locks-Lower Limb
4. Nerve Blocks-Peripheral Nerves
5. Nerve Blocks-Abdominal and Thoracic
6. Focused Abdominal Scan in Trauma
7. Additional Ultrasound in Trauma
8. Assessment of Flow and Stenosis in Vessels
9. Critical Care Procedures

The completion of the subject, students should:

1. Understand the approaches and techniques of ultrasound guided percutaneous procedures.
2. Understand ultrasound guided Vascular access
3. Understand ultrasound guided procedures used in trauma

Elective 1

a) Understand ultrasound guided upper limb nerve blocks

b) Understand ultrasound guided lower limb nerve blocks

c) Understand ultrasound guided abdominal and thoracic nerve blocks

d) Understand ultrasound guided deep cervical plexus and peripheral nerve blocks

Elective 2

a) Basic assessment of cerebral blood flow

b) Basic DVT assessment

c) Additional procedures in Trauma

d) Ultrasound guided airway management

1. 80% of assessment: one open- book multiple-choice examination consisting of 50 questions. Students will have 1 week to complete the examination during the assessment period at the end of the semester.

2. 20% of assessment: completion of self assessment modules at the end of each tutorial, progressively through the semester. These are completed in the workbooks issued to students and it is a requirement that these workbooks are signed and returned for assessment.

Royse C, Donnan G, Royse A. Pocket Guide to Perioperative and Critical Care Echocardiography. 2006; McGraw-Hills

Other materials will be provided as a package of readings, PowerPoint presentations and case studies.

This subject is not available as a breadth subject.

• Enhance time utilisation
• Improve written skills and problem solving skill

All students are expected to have access to a computer that can operate a Windows platform or simulation.