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This course is designed for Anesthesiologists who are seeking to advance their skills in ultrasound guided regional anesthesia. The course includes lectures, hands on workshops on fresh frozen human cadavers and live models. This is a great learning opportunity for anesthesia providers with strong emphasis on small group learning and real time hands on practice of regional anesthesia blocks. The expanded optional half day (PoCUS) point of care ultrasound workshop for the Anesthesiologist is designed to introduce the use of ultrasound for emergency cardiac evaluation, pulmonary, gastric and airway evaluation at bedside.

Who Should Attend?

Physician Anesthesiologists, Fellows and Residents in Anesthesiology, Pain Management and Critical Care.

Learning Objectives

After participating in the workshop, the participant will be able to:

Recognize and describe the sonoanatomy of vessels, peripheral ne rves, tendons and nerve plexi.

Describe and discuss the techniques to refine and improve the qu ality of the ultrasound image obtained.

Practice needle insertion techniques; identify the block needle trajector y and the spread of local anesthetic.

Practice the ultrasound guided regional anesthesia blocks real-t ime on cadavers.

Place indwelling catheters in cadavers and detect the final posi tion of the catheter tip.

Employ ultrasound guided regional anesthesia skills to improve block success rate and patient satisfaction.

Detect critical structures that need to be avoided to improve p atient safety in regional anesthesia.

Scanning and identification of diaphragm, pleura, gastric volume s and basic transthoracic cardiac views.

Kenneth Cummings, MD

Anesthesiology Institute

Hesham Elsharkawy, MD

Anesthesiology Institute

Wael Ali Sakr Esa, MD

Anesthesiology Institute

Justo Gonzalez MD

Anesthesiology Institute

Venkatesh Kambhampati, MD

Emergency Medicine

Sandeep Khanna MD

Anesthesiology Institute

Kamal Maheshwari, MD

Anesthesiology Institute

William Phillips MD

Anesthesiology Institute

Michael Ritchey, MD

Anesthesiology Institute

Richard Rosenquist, MD

Anesthesiology Institute

John Seif, MD

Anesthesiology Institute

Samantha Stamper, MD

Anesthesiology Institute

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Group registrations not allowed

Accompanying persons not allowed

We don’t accept Online Abstracts

A block of rooms has been reserved at the Intercontinental Hotel, Cleveland Clinic. 9801 Carnegie Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44106. The Hotel is within the Cleveland Clinic Main Campus and connected internally to the workshop location.

To make your reservations, please call 216.707.4000 or 877.707.8999 and identify yourself as an attendee for the Cleveland Clinic Cadaver Regional Anesthesia Workshop for discounted rate of $119.00 plus tax.

Other recommended hotels within walking distance are

Holiday Inn, Cleveland Clinic, 8650 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44106

Intercontinental Suites Hotel, 8800 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, OH 44106

Submission Info

Contact No.: 216.444.9990,

216.448.8710Email:

mycme@ccf.org