Live Obstetric Ultrasound Imaging and Doppler (Oct 21 - 24, 2024)

Live Obstetric Ultrasound Imaging and Doppler is organized by Keith Mauney & Associates (KMA) Ultrasound Training Institutes and will be held from Oct 21 - 24, 2024 at The Las Colinas Hilton Homewood Suites Hotel, Irving, Texas, United States of America.

Who Will Benefit:
• Allied Health Care Providers
• Residents and Physicians
• Sonography Students & Graduates: Expand & Expound Your Ultrasound Training
• Research & Medical Ultrasound Device Professionals

Course Description:
Among the most rewarding, but challenging expressions of Women’s Care is obstetric sonography.  This hands-on ultrasound training experience is totally focused on your tactile skills, abstract spatial reasoning, and pattern detection.  Far more than learning to track a moving target, we’ll repeatedly practice the systematic protocol to make certain all accessible fetal structures are inspected, documented, and clearly communicated.  Our approach, forged over forty years, will set you on the path to competence immediately and direct you toward- or return to the joy of making a difference.

Four days together at our bedside will change your trajectory forever.  In the first hour, we’ll set forth the machine safety and optimization controls for both ultrasound imaging & Doppler.  Then, our first pregnant subjects arrive and we work our way from the cervix to the fundus.  We survey to first spot any urgent concerns, then methodically document fetal anatomy from head to toe.  Between cases, we’ll formally present and discuss every element of the standard anatomic survey protocol, then return again and again to practice it.

When and where Doppler might have a role, we’ll safely and judiciously apply it and learn its powerful subjective and objective contribution.  Woven into this continuous practice is our steady reinforcement of how to know, not just what to do and remember.

Topics:
The class is strictly small so we can spend time on the topics we need to cover and all the ones you want to discuss:
• Quick and forever orientation to any pelvic image: gravid or not
• The secret tactile tool that will take 3 years off your mastery curve and forever relieve your wrist strain
• The two-step process to launch and complete the head-to-toe fetal anatomy scan.
• The secret to optimize every image and Doppler finding without having to think
• System (and monitor) setting to standardize every image, every time.
• Landmarks, scan planes and trajectories for the fetal head: brain, posterior fossa& lateral ventricles, spine, chest & heart, stomach, kidneys & bladder, cord insertion, extremities, and gender
• The systematic approach to identifying the right and left heart outflow tracts: secrets of the echocardiographers
• Locating, grading and mapping the placenta and its uterine integrity
• Fine-tuning the measurement of AFI
• Cord and middle cerebral artery Doppler: analysis of resistance, pulsatility and systolic/diastolic indices in evaluation for IUGR
• Why the the maternal heart and kidneys matter and what to look for
• Systematic assessment of the adnexa in suspected ectopic or heterotopic pregnancy
• The non-gravid pelvis: Techniques to overcome body habitus and air- the secrets you might not have even thought of.
• How to analyze and document every pathologic finding: taking the right steps, using the right words.
• How to think your way through any Registry Exam question you might ever face.
• Next steps: How to reenter your workplace and maximize your next six months in the Field.

Objectives:
Our approach is totally focused on the patient diagnosis.  We are deeply familiar with virtually every ultrasound machine and the manufacturer’s rationale behind its design, features and functions.  No faculty members have any commercial interests or participation that might influence course content.  

There is no formal test in this class: we evaluate you continuously and offer positive feedback and gentle corrections throughout.  Upon completion of this activity, and through continued review, you should be able to:

• Demonstrate a prioritized survey of hte gravid pelvis to observe any gross or suspected abnormalities which migh terminate further routine study and require physician attention
• Conduct a systematic ultrasound fetal anatomy scan and measure/document  all pertinent anatomic structures. 
• Locate and document the situs of the fetal heart with a focus on 4-chamber development, inflow and outflow tracts, septae, and cardiovascular structural integrity
• Estimate fetal gestational age using cranial, abdominal and extremity metrics
• Identify and correct common sources of operator error in acquiring the most accurate images for measurement
• Apply spectral Doppler measurements of cord and middle cerebral artery resistance index to reconcile IUGR in fetal development tracking small for dates
• Optimize and apply judicious use of color and/or power Doppler to evaluate for placental abruption