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Practical Abdominal Ultrasound - B83137 (elective subject)
Title: Praktický kurz ultrazvuku břicha
Guaranteed by: Department of Radiology First Faculty of Medicine Charles University and General University Hospital in Prague (11-00620)
Faculty: First Faculty of Medicine
Actual: from 2021
Semester: winter
Points: 2
E-Credits: 2
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:0/15, C [HS]
Extent per academic year: 15 [hours]
Capacity: 8
Min. number of students: 5
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: English
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Explanation: jiri.benes2@lf1.cuni.cz
Note: you can enroll for the course repeatedly
course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
Guarantor: MUDr. Jiří Beneš, Ph.D.
Attributes: Lékařství
Pre-requisite : B80098
Annotation -
Last update: Marcela Holanová (07.06.2019)
Course contains 8 worshops during which the students gets aquainted with the basic principles of abdominal ultrasound with practical and individual approach. Praxis in ultrasound investigation will be the main part of this course.
Aim of the course -
Last update: Marcela Holanová (07.06.2019)

Teach the student show to do an abdominal ultrasound.

Syllabus -
Last update: Marcela Holanová (07.06.2019)

First week (50% theory, 50% practice) - basics (physical principles, types of probes, artifacts, how to hold the probe, how to examine an organ, machine descriptions, M-mode, Doppler mode); Practising the orientation on kidney, IVC and aorta

Second week (90% practise, 10% theory) - kidneys and spleen (anatomy, orientation, measurement) + basic pathologies (free fluid in Morrison pouch, splenomegaly, hemangioma, cysts, hydronephrosis, pyelonephritis)

Third week (90% practise, 10% theory) - liver (anatomy, measurements, orientation, finding jumping deer, venous star, gall bladder) + how to examine the liver systematically + basic pathologies (steathosis, metastasis, hepatomegaly, hemangioma, cirrhosis, portal hypertension, venous congestion)

Fourth week (90% practise, 10% theory) - patho-quiz (we present ultrasound pathologies where the students will guess the pathology) + revision of liver, spleen and kidney

Fifth week (90% practise, 10% theory) big vessels + pankreas (anatomy, orientation, measurements) + common pathologies (aneurysm, dissection, pancreatitis, carcinoma, nutcracker syndrome)

Sixth - Seventh week (90% practise, 10% theory) - EFAST (anatomy of lungs, pleura, sliding, revision of Morrison and Kollers pouch); revision of all parts (free practising), patient examination

Eight week - students present abdominal ultrasound examination + credit

Literature -
Last update: Marcela Holanová (07.06.2019)

Matthias Hofer, Ultrasound teaching manual, Thieme 2013

Teaching methods -
Last update: MUDr. Jiří Beneš, Ph.D. (25.09.2020)

Course is organised as intensive week course (in the afternoons). In the beginning of the semestr, student will be contacted and the terms of the courses will be announced

Practical interactive workshop

Course completion requirements -
Last update: Marcela Holanová (07.06.2019)

Presence (7/8), examination of aquired skills

 
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