Workshops
Cyclical Workshops
EMINDIA24 brings you a slew of workshops focused on skills relevant to Emergency Medicine clinicians. Learn from our team of experts, on your journey towards developing your own expertise.
For details regarding the registration process, please see our registration page. You may register in one or more of the workshops from those on offer below. These will run in 2-hour cyclical slots through the day, and you will receive further information about your slot allocation by email, closer to the event.
POCUS – Shock in EM
2-Hour Workshop
Shock is a common condition encountered in Emergency Departments. The clinical presentation in a shocked patient may overlap despite different etiologies, which require different treatment strategies. Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) is gaining popularity as a diagnostic adjunct to aid the process of differentiating etiologies thereby guiding management decisions.
While we do not need to become expert echocardiographers, POCUS echo in EM is an important adjunct to add to our repertoire of skills as recognized by the global community of emergency clinicians. Our team of emergency medicine experts teach you a systemic approach for bedside echocardiography.
POCUS – Echo in EM
2-Hour Workshop
Bedside echocardiography in Emergency Medicine has been a game-changing intervention which guides early diagnosis and management of major presentations to emergency departments such as patients with pericardial effusion or tamponade, or massive pulmonary embolism with right heart strain, among others. These are differentials which historically posed the challenge of delays in imaging with serious consequences in administering timely interventions.
While we do not need to become expert echocardiographers, POCUS echo in EM is an important adjunct to add to our repertoire of skills as recognized by the global community of emergency clinicians. Our team of emergency medicine experts teach you a systemic approach for bedside echocardiography.
Emergent Thoracotomy and Decompression
2-Hour Workshop
Emergent Thoracotomy is a procedure performed in the Emergency Department for patients with serious intrathoracic injuries. There are few situations and indications where this procedure is performed in patients with thoracic trauma, intended for direct visualization and temporizing measures such as decompression of traumatic pericardial tamponade and hemorrhage control. This temporizing procedure in the ED might very well be a life-saving intervention allowing the patient to survive to theatre for definitive management.
In this workshop, you will learn the indications, relevant anatomy, and steps to performing Emergent Thoracotomy in Emergency Medicine.
Bronchoscopy in EM
2-Hour Workshop
Flexible bronchoscopy is an important, rapid, bedside diagnostic and potentially therapeutic procedure relevant to emergency airway management. Once difficult to access due financial considerations of reusable bronchoscopes, disposable flexible bronchoscopes are available from several manufacturers which are more affordable.
It has long since been used in critical care settings to guide diagnosis and treatment of disorders of the tracheobronchial tree. Airway management is a key clinical skill for emergency physicians, and flexible bronchoscopy used in the right patients at the right time can be potentially life-saving. It is time for us to add this tool in our EM armamentarium.
