Are you ready to unlock the secrets of musculoskeletal ultrasound?
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| Zedu's two-day Introduction to Musculoskeletal Ultrasound Fundamentals for Sonographers course offers an immersive and practical experience to fast-track your skills development and get you work-ready. |
Who should attend
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- Trainee sonographers who need to learn new skills.
- Newly qualified sonographers seeking to enhance their confidence and skill level.
- Return-to-practice sonographers in need of skill refreshment.
- Sonographers who are looking to change roles and want to hone their skills.
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How you will learn
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| At Zedu, we believe in a comprehensive learning approach. |
| Our renowned hands-off teaching methods ensure you get more hands-on scanning practice. Our courses blend theory seamlessly with extensive practical sessions. |
| You'll understand the concepts and apply them in real-world scenarios. We take a step-by-step, structured approach to examinations, ensuring everything is covered thoroughly and nothing is left to chance. |
| The focus on repetitive practice ensures that you learn and retain the knowledge. You will practice on real people of various body shapes, sizes, and ages. |
| We start by developing your skills with normal, uncomplicated patients and then progress to more challenging body habitus’. |
| This gradual progression ensures that you build a solid foundation before tackling more complex scenarios, giving you the confidence to handle any situation. Additionally, you'll develop communication skills to support your clinical practice. |
You will learn how to:
- Move the probe intentionally to get the image you want.
- Use the machine controls to optimise images proficiently.
- Determine what images to take and why.
- Apply a systematic approach and structured protocol for scanning the:
- Achilles tendon
- Plantar fascia
- Lumps, bumps and foreign bodies
- Shoulder
- Identify normal sonoanatomy and the appearances of common pathologies of the Achilles tendon, plantar fascia, superficial soft tissue and shoulder.
- Use sonographic terminology to accurately communicate ultrasound findings and complete worksheets for various imaging scenarios.
Running time
Course outline
🖥️ Scanning principles
- Explore system controls & knobology
- Understand the impact of optimisation on the image
- How to find the right window & get good images
- 3D awareness of the anatomical position of the anatomy
- Ergonomics
- Understand & optimise colour and power Doppler for MSK
🗣️Communication
- How to gain a good history
- How to hand over findings to a radiologist
- Writing up worksheets - what needs to be said?
🔍Achilles
- Scan technique
- Normal sonoanatomy of tendons, muscles, joints, bones, & bursa
- Recognise normal & abnormal imaging
- Limitations & pitfalls
- Minimum imaging sequence
- 👥Lots of scanning practice on real people
🔍Plantar fascia
- Scan technique
- Normal sonoanatomy of fascia, muscles, bones, & bursa
- Recognise normal & abnormal imaging
- Limitations & pitfalls
- 👥Lots of scanning practice on real people
🔍Lumps, bumps & foreign bodies
- Scan technique
- Normal sonoanatomy of dermal & subcutaneous & other soft tissues.
- Soft tissue collections: haematomas, abscesses, ganglion
- Soft tissue masses: lipomata, sebaceous cysts
- Sonographic appearance suggestive of neoplasm/malignancy
- Recognise normal & abnormal imaging
- Minimum imaging sequence
- Limitations & pitfalls
🔍Shoulder
- Scan technique
- Normal sonoanatomy of rotator cuff tendons, ligaments, muscles, joints, bones & bursa
- Recognise normal & babnormal imaging
- Joint effusions & bursitis
- How to dynamically evaluate the structures of the rotator cuff
- Minimum imaging sequence
- Limitations & pitfalls
- 👥Lots of scanning practice on real people
