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Practical POCUS: Fundamentals of Practical echocardiography scanning day Intermediate echocardiography The trauma patient – a global approach to
Point-of-care Ultrasound Wednesday 1st October Wednesday 26th November case management
Thursday 12th June NEW You’re an echo beginner, and would like a few more tips on how to You’ve attended the Basic echocardiography course and you’re ready Thursday 4th December
obtain the views? You can get the echo views, but they don’t look like the to move on? You can get the views but are unsure how to make
Are you keen to use or start using point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) images in the books? accurate measurements? Would you like to know more about Doppler Does the trauma patient quicken your pulse? Is your management of
in managing your emergency patients? Do you use POCUS but lack echocardiography? orthopaedic injury disjointed? Want to learn how to POCUS your efforts
confidence in your practical skills? Do you want to get hands-on practice Many vets are keen to develop their knowledge and skills in most effectively?
of POCUS with leading teachers in the field? echocardiography as it is such a useful diagnostic tool in general Participants will build on echocardiographic skills developed in the Trauma patients are frequently encountered in general practice, with the
practice. The day will be entirely devoted to scanning and participants
Basic echocardiography course and improve their proficiency in
This course will include online lectures and 4-hour hands-on practical will be expected to have attended a CPD course (from any suitable 2D and M-mode echocardiography, focusing on quantification and complex and often multifaceted nature of injury presenting challenges
developed and delivered by leaders in the field of veterinary POCUS. CPD provider, not just the RVC) previously where the basics of lesion recognition. A grounding will also be provided in Doppler for the veterinary surgeon. The ‘golden hour’ of trauma management is
Through practical, supervised hands-on training using live dogs, everyone ultrasound theory and echocardiography were discussed and techniques echocardiography, but with a focus on integrating all aspects of the key – this course will help you to seize the opportunity to maximise patient
will have the opportunity to learn and practice all of the common veterinary demonstrated. echocardiography exam. Some prior experience will be assumed. outcomes.
POCUS techniques currently used to assess the abdomen, pleural space, Enhance your patient assessment, diagnostic techniques and clinical
lung, and heart. Phantoms training models will be used to demonstrate This is an opportunity to gain tips on all aspects of your echocardiographic If you have been practising echo on your own and want to polish up your interventions with guidance from clinicians in emergency and critical
and practice ultrasound guided vascular access. imaging from experts, whether you have a little or a lot of experience. technique, or if you want to learn more about Doppler echocardiography, care, diagnostic imaging, orthopaedic and soft tissue surgery. This
You may also be interested in attending the companion course: Webinar then this is the course for you.
Course details Plus: Integrating echocardiography into your clinical practice – see Course details collaborative course of online lectures followed by an all-day practical will
allow you to apply a holistic approach to the trauma patient.
Course type: Webinars and onsite CPD hours: 12 course below.
Course type: Onsite CPD hours: 8 Course details
Course length: 4 hours onsite and Course fee: £649 Course details
online lectures Course length: 1 day Course fee: £549 Course type: Webinars and onsite CPD hours: 13
Course type: Onsite CPD hours: 8
Tutors Course length: 1 day Course fee: £549 Tutors Course length: 1 day onsite and Course fee: £949
online lectures
Soren Boysen DVM DipACVECC, Professor of Veterinary Emergency Tutors David Connolly BSc BVetMed PhD CertSAM CertVC DipECVIM-CA
and Critical Care, University of Calgary MRCVS, Professor in Veterinary Cardiology, RVC Tutors
Laura Cole BA VetMB PGCertVetEd CertAVP(ECC) DipACVECC David Connolly BSc BVetMed PhD CertSAM CertVC DipECVIM-CA Virginia Luis Fuentes VetMB PhD CertVR DVC DipACVIM DipECVIM- Laura Cole BA VetMB PGCertVetEd CertAVP(ECC) DipACVECC
DipECVECC MRCVS, Lecturer in Emergency and Critical Care, RVC MRCVS, Professor in Veterinary Cardiology, RVC CA MRCVS, Professor of Veterinary Cardiology, RVC DipECVECC MRCVS, Lecturer in Emergency and Critical Care, RVC
Simon Cook BVSc MVetMed DipACVECC DipECVECC FHEA MRCVS, Virginia Luis Fuentes VetMB PhD CertVR DVC DipACVIM DipECVIM- Proudly supported by IMV Anna Frykfors von Hekkel BVetMed PGDipVCP MVetMed DipECVS
Senior Lecturer in Emergency and Critical Care, RVC CA MRCVS, Professor of Veterinary Cardiology, RVC MRCVS, Lecturer in Small Animal Surgery, RVC
Erica Tinson BSc BVSc MVS DipACVECC FHEA MRCVS, Lecturer in Proudly supported by IMV Thom Watton BSc BVetMed MVetMed MRCVS, RCVS and EBVS
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Emergency and Critical Care, RVC European Specialist in Veterinary Diagnostic Imaging
Proudly supported by IMV Proudly supported by Veterinary Instrumentation and IMV

Small animal VCT online: Head/neck, Webinar Plus: Integrating
musculoskeletal and neurological echocardiography into your clinical Randi has extraordinary teaching
applications practice skills which really boosted my
confidence in interpreting CTs.
Monday 22nd September to Monday 3rd to Sunday 30th November
Sunday 2nd November Small animal VCT online: Technology, thorax,
“I’ve done the echo, now what?!” abdomen and vascular application
Are you using or planning to use computed tomography (CT) in your Developing proficiency in practical echocardiography is a challenge, but
practice? obtaining good images is only the start. The purpose of echocardiography
This online course will help you to understand CT technology and its is to help with clinical decision-making. While other courses might focus
diagnostic utilisation for evaluation of the head and neck, musculoskeletal on how to obtain standard echocardiography views and how to make
system and nervous system. It will equip you with the knowledge to measurements, this course will focus on what you can do with your
successfully integrate CT in your small animal veterinary practice – onsite echocardiography findings to make better clinical decisions in dogs
or offsite. A review of practically applicable CT technology used in small and cats with suspected heart disease. It is designed to be suitable for
animals will lay the foundation for understanding the information displayed participants with some echocardiography experience, but you do not need
on CT images and help to optimise image acquisition for practitioners to be an expert echocardiographer to get something out of this course.
who have a CT unit onsite. The role of echocardiography will be critically evaluated in a problem-
based approach, looking at common presenting problems in dogs and
Course details cats.
Course type: e-CPD CPD hours: Up to 42 Course details
Course length: 6 weeks Course fee: £779 Joey Batton, Welsh Collie
Course type: Webinar Plus CPD hours: Up to 16
Tutor Course length: 4 weeks Course fee: £429
Randi Drees Dr.med.vet. PhD DipACVR (Radiology, Radiation Oncology)
DipECVDI (add RadOncol) PGCertAP MRCVS, EBVS® European Tutor
Specialist in Veterinary Diagnostic Imaging and Radiation Oncology, Virginia Luis Fuentes VetMB PhD CertVR DVC DipACVIM DipECVIM-
Consultant Radiologist CA MRCVS, Professor of Veterinary Cardiology, RVC