The programme for next week’s CGD is as follows: Afternoon education workshops will include:

• Updates in Ultrasound – A hands-on refresher session on eFAST, RUSH and basic echo with special guest Dr Chris Partyka (Ultrasound Registrar at Liverpool Hospital, EM blogger at The Blunt Dissection).
• ECGs to Rock a Retrievalist – Advanced ECG Workshop by Dr Ed Burns (author of the Life in the Fast Lane ECG Library).

Pre-Reading Brush up on your ultrasound and ECG knowledge with these useful FOAM resources.

Ultrasound Resources

• Mount Sinai Emergency Medicine Ultrasound series — Tutorials on FAST and RUSH
• Academic Life in Emergency Medicine — Excellent overview of the RUSH protocol
• Cliff’s awesome talk on Trauma USS as presented on the Ultrasound Podcast (you might recognise this one from our HEMS induction week)
• Scott Weingart’s 2-part lecture on RUSH — Part 1 (busy readers skip to ~11:40 to get to the main points) and Part 2

Some other US websites worth checking out:

• The Ultrasound Podcast
• The Sonocave
• CritCare Sono
• SonoCloud

 Electrocardiography Resources The theme of the ECG workshop is chest pain. Check out the following pages from the LITFL ECG Library:

• Right Ventricular MI
• Posterior MI
• LMCA occlusion
• Wellens’ syndrome
• De Winter’s T waves

Some other ECG websites worth checking out:

• Dr Smith’s ECG Blog
• Amal Mattu’s Emergency ECG Video of the Week

Looking forward to seeing you there!

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