Successful Two-Day, Hands-On PoCUS Symposium Hosted in Connecticut for New England Providers
Attendees of the first annual New England Regional PoCUS Symposium hosted April 10-11 by UConn School of Medicine experts.
UConn School of Medicine experts continue to be on the forefront of teaching point-of-care ultrasonography (PoCUS) and have now expanded their training to New England's health care professionals.
On April 10-11 UConn's medical school organized the first annual New England Regional PoCUS Symposium in Bristol, Conn. Physicians, fellows, residents, and advanced practice providers had the opportunity to gain hands-on PoCUS training and education. The symposium also focused on Advanced Critical Care Echocardiography (CCE), another effective tool for the management of critically ill patients.
"Our first annual PoCUS symposium was a huge success," says Symposium Course Director Dr. Jennifer Kanaan, associate professor of Medicine, Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine at UConn School of Medicine. She has been teaching a Connecticut statewide course on PoCUS for pulmonary critical care fellows since 2015 as well as a curriculum with colleagues for UConn School of Medicine's Emergency Medicine residency and UConn John Dempsey hospitalists too.
PoCUS is ultrasonography performed rapidly at the patient's bedside and interpreted in real-time by the clinician to aid with decision-making and procedural guidance. It is most widely used in emergency medicine and pulmonary critical care.
