Peripheral venous access ultrasound training - SonoSim

Peripheral Venous Access Ultrasound-Guided Procedure Training

Learn how to use sonography to guide peripheral venous access in patients. The needle-based peripheral venous access procedure feature provides cognitive task training on ultrasound-guided needle-based procedures. Ultrasound-guided peripheral venous access procedure indications, sonographic techniques and scanning approaches, including imaging tips, pitfalls, and procedure complications are described.
CME Credits:
3.75
Cases:
10
Price US$599.00
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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:

  • Procedure Indications & Contraindications
  • Site Selection
  • Sonography Anatomy & Characteristics
  • Transducer Selection & Settings
  • Ergonomic Considerations
  • Patient Positioning
  • Ergonomic Considerations
  • Infection Prevention
  • Survey Scan & Procedure Steps
  • Doppler-Mode Imaging
  • Tips, Pitfalls & Complications

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, 7 Adult & 3 Pediatric
  • Relevant Findings/Pathology: Variable Body Morphology, Right and Left Arms, Dorsal Metacarpal Veins, Cephalic Veins, Brachial Veins, Basilic Veins, Median Cubital Vein
  • Scanning Approaches: Short Axis & Long Axis
  • Doppler & Imaging Modes: Power Doppler
  • Procedure Techniques: In-Plane & Out-of-Plane Needle Guidance
  • Transducer Types: Linear
  • Special Case Features: Compression

Continued Medical Education

Learning to obtain ultrasound-guided venous access on difficult-stick patients can initially be quite time-consuming, but with improved proficiency, it will expedite vascular access. With time, one gets a real sense of exactly where the needle is going to appear on the screen based on the initial depth and approach. The Peripheral Venous Access: Ultrasound-Guided Procedure Module begins by presenting the advantages of ultrasound-guided peripheral venous access, supporting literature, and a couple case studies. Then, regional anatomy of deep and superficial veins of the upper and lower arms is reviewed. Sonographic venous anatomy is described, as well as sonographic anatomy of relevant surrounding structures, such as muscle, hard and soft tissue, tendon, and nerves. Procedure preparation is discussed in detail and includes patient positioning, optimal transducer selection, the survey scan, optimization of imaging, and angiocatheter selection. Procedural steps and sonographic techniques for peripheral venous access are explained. The course concludes with technical tips and pitfalls, a summary of closing concepts, and a couple more case studies. Ten different simulation cases help one develop the visuospatial skills required to successfully perform ultrasound-guided peripheral venous access.

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 3.75 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 3.75 hours of ACEP Category I credit.

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