Objectives/Target audience

Conference outlines

Help healthcare professionals who deal with critical care patients to:

Have more knowledge about the current practice guidelines on Critical care ultrasound.
Know the different new modalities/protocols of ultrasound guided critical care management.
Know the impact of use of CCUS on the outcome of critically ill patients.
Be able to face complex critically ill patients using evidence-based ultrasound techniques and modalities.
Learn the holistic ultrasound guided management, starting from the emergency department till the ICU.

Target audience:

Objectives:

Neuro critical care:
- Trans-cranial Ultrasound.
- Optic nerve sheath diameter and its uses in critical care sittings.

Cardiovascular and complex hemodynamics:
- Prediction of fluid responsiveness in mechanically ventilated patients
- Right ventricle guidance in fluid management
- IVC vs SVC in fluid resuscitation.
- Extra vascular lung water: How to approach?
- FALLS protocol.
- TOE, the basics.
- TOE in Hemodynamics: different approaches
- Prediction of fluid responsiveness in special conditions
- LVOT obstruction and its hemodynamic consequences and how to manage.
- How critical care Echocardiography changes your management plans.
- Septic Cardiomyopathy Review of the current practice guidelines.

Respiratory diseases assessment and ventilation management with US guidance:
- Lung ultrasound, a holistic discipline: the example of the BLUE-protocol.
- Lung ultrasound use in how to set ventilator parameters including recruitment maneuvers.
- Diaphragm assessment in respiratory failure with different etiologies and weaning protocols.
- Weaning induced Pulmonary edema
- Heart-Lung interaction in weaning, Ultrasound role.
- Lung ultrasound in COVID pneumonia
- ARDS, RV assessment.

POCUS in DVT and how to differentiate DVT from other diagnoses e.g. rupture baker cyst.