Focused Cardiac Ultrasound Transoesophageal Echocardiography

What you will learn

Overview

The Focused Cardiac Ultrasound Transoesophageal Echocardiography (FCU TOE) Course offers a comprehensive knowledge base through learning practical skills in transoesophageal echocardiography to complement clinical evaluation.

The course has been designed to use the CAE Vimedix Ultrasound Simulators to reinforce clinical simulator case studies. Learn practical skills in focused cardiac ultrasound transesophageal echocardiography (FCU TOE), and additional learning that outlines both normal and pathology cases relevant to anaesthesia, critical care, emergency medicine, surgery and internal medicine.

Designed For

Designed for Anaesthetists, intensive care, and emergency department physicians, and surgeons who wish to learn how to use Point-Of-Care (POC) transoesophageal guidance techniques.

Learning Outcomes

1. Acquire the TOE views
2. Understand haemodynamic State Assessment
3. Perform limited valve assessment using 2D and colour flow Doppler
4. Putting it all together - completing iHeartScan
5. Writing an iHeartScan report
6. Practical experience in performing and reporting an iHeartScan on simulated patients
7. Pre-reading eLearning tutorials and 20 online case studies. This provides the knowledge base to perform and interpret basic TOE.
8. 10 online cases to perform using the simulator. The participant in their own time will work through a case study, acquiring images, interpreting pathology, writing a report and completing assessments relevant to the case. At the end of this stage, there is an online MCQ exam.
9. 30 online logbooks to record clinical activity performed on patients.

Assessment

Completion of the course requires a 70% pass mark of all pre-reading cases, simulator cases, and exam.

Course completion takes approximately 30 hours.

*participants will have access to Vimedix simulators in the University of Melbourne Ultrasound Simulation Centre upon successful course enrolment.