Ultrasound Training - eFAST exam protocol - SonoSim

eFAST Protocol Clinical Training

Learn the indications for administering the Focused Assessment with Sonography in Trauma (FAST) and Extended Focused Assessment with Sonography in Trauma (eFAST) examinations, as well as their goals and limitations. Learn how to obtain the five windows of the eFAST examination, including patient positioning, transducer selection, and sonographic technique. Evaluate anatomy read findings visualized in each of the five windows of the eFAST examination, which include the Right Upper Quadrant (hepatorenal), Cardiac, Left Upper Quadrant (splenorenal), Suprapubic, and Lungs.
CME Credits:
4.5
Cases:
10
Price US$799.00
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How it Works

Each SonoSim module contains:

  • A Didactic, Cloud-Based, Multimedia Course
  • Real-Time Knowledge Checks & a Mastery Test
  • A Series of Hands-On, Real Patient Scanning Cases Accessed with the SonoSimulator® Ultrasound Probe

The SonoSimulator Ultrasound Probe is a one-time purchase and is your access key to the SonoSim modules you license annually. License to each module is purchased in the first year, and maintained with an annual membership fee. Keep scanning and maintain all your member benefits, including annual access to all your modules, with your low annual membership fee of $295 (complimentary in your first year).

Course Highlights

SonoSim cloud-based, multimedia, didactic courses are created by leading ultrasound experts, and are internet accessible immediately after purchase, on any device. There are knowledge checks with real-time feedback throughout each course, as well as a Mastery Test that is automatically graded.

The course in this module covers topics including:

  • Evaluation of Trauma Patient
  • eFAST Examination & Indications
  • Anatomy for eFAST Windows: RUQ, Cardiac, LUQ, Pelvis, Lungs
  • Sonographic Techniques
  • Imaging Tips & Pitfalls in Performing eFAST
  • Possible eFAST Findings including Full Cardiac Arrest, Stab Wounds, Blunt Trauma and Vehicle Accident Trauma

SonoSimulator Scanning Cases

The SonoSimulator® helps develop and maintain the critical visuomotor and visuospatial skills that are central to image acquisition and interpretation with real patient imagery, expert tutorials on-demand, and real-time feedback on success.

The 10 real patient scanning cases in this module include and cover:

  • Patient Types: Male & Female, 9 Adult & 1 Pediatric
  • Relevant Findings/Pathology: Normal Adult & Pediatric Patients; Hemodynamically Stable Patients with Mild-to-Moderate Free Intraperitoneal Fluid; Hemodynamically Unstable Patients with Marked Free Intraperitoneal Fluid; Pneumothorax; Hemopericardium; Splenic injury; Hemothorax
  • Doppler & Imaging Modes: M-Mode
  • Scanning Approaches: RUQ, Suprapubic, LUQ, Subcostal, Right Chest, Left Chest
  • Transducer Types: Linear, Curvilinear, Phased Array
  • Special Case Features: Anatomic Layer Removal

Continued Medical Education

The eFAST, or extended-FAST, exam has become standard practice in many trauma centers and offers many advantages over traditional approaches to trauma care. The extension of the FAST exam to include the lungs, for screening for pneumothoraces, was a logical progression. The eFAST Protocol: Core Clinical Ultrasound Module teaches one how to obtain and evaluate the five ultrasound imaging windows of the eFAST exam: the right upper quadrant (RUQ), cardiac, left upper quadrant (LUQ), pelvic, and lungs (both right and left). The course begins with indications and objectives of the FAST and eFAST exams. A review is provided of relevant anatomy within the five eFAST windows, and corresponding sonographic anatomy is described. Transducer selection, scanning approaches, and imaging techniques are discussed in detail. The course concludes with imaging tips and pitfalls, and a series of case studies. Ten different hands-on simulation cases allow one to develop the requisite cognitive task awareness and visuospatial skills required to successfully perform the eFAST protocol.

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of the American College of Emergency Physicians, the Illinois College of Emergency Physicians, and SonoSim, Inc. The American College of Emergency Physicians is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The American College of Emergency Physicians designates this enduring material for a maximum of 4.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Approved by the American College of Emergency Physicians for a maximum of 4.5 hours of ACEP Category I credit.

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