Date: July 8/9^th 2010

Organisers: Professor Dominic Harmon & Dr Barry Nicholls

Venue: Comparative Morphology Centre, Southwell Street, Bristol BS2 6EJ.

Cost £350

Optional half day Ultrasound Basics £50.

Optional Course Dinner £30

Limited to 24 places

Registration is now open - book online

Programme

July 8th 2010

0830-0900: Registration and Breakfast

0900-0910: Introduction and Welcome Dr Barry Nicholls (Taunton, UK)

Basic lecture sessions

0910-0940: Principles of interventional ultrasound. Dr Michael Stafford (Belfast, Northern Ireland)

0940-1020: Sonoanatomy overview – peripheral and axial structures. Professor Dominic Harmon (Limerick, Ireland).

1030-1045: Coffee

Interactive Lecture sessions – with Live Model Demonstration

1045-1145: Musculoskeletal ultrasound - joints. Dr David Kane - Consulatnt Rheumatologist  (Dublin, Ireland)

1145-1245: Musculoskeletal ultrasound - soft tissues. Dr David Silver Consultant MSK Radiologist - (Exeter, UK).

1245-1400: Lunch

1400-1500: Peripheral nerves: suprascapular/ occipital / lateral cutaneous nerve thigh / pudendal Dr Andrzej Krol (London)

1500-1600: Cervical facets / roots and stellate ganglion Dr Urs Eichenburger (Bern, Switzerland)

1600-1620: Tea

1620-1720: Lumbar facet / caudal injections / Sacro-iliac / epidural Dr Manfred Greher (Vienna, Austria)

1720-1745: Panel Discussion and Close.

2000-2300: Course Dinner – optional with additional cost

July 9th 2010: Anatomy Lab

0900-1200: / 1300-1600:

This section will be based in the dissection area, with 6-8 delegates per station. For each cadaver there will be a separate live model where delegates can go and scan the living anatomy then return to place needles in the cadaver. For the facet procedures we will have a fluoroscope so that delegates can correlate images of fluoroscopic and sonographic anatomy.

There will be fours stations – 90mins per station, 2 stations am / 2 stations pm

1. Musculoskeletal (1 model / 1 cadaver) TBA /David Silver

2. Peripheral nerves/ anatomy prosections (2 models) Alice Roberts /Michael Stafford

3. Cervical / thoracic (2 models) Andrzej Krol / Urs Eichenburger

4. Lumbar / C-arm (1 model / 1 cadaver) Manfred Greher / Dominic Harmon / Barry Nicholls

Optional - half day program on Wednesday 7^th July – for those clinicians not as confident in the use of ultrasound.

1330 1400 Registration

1400-1420: Physics of Ultrasound

1420-1440: Basic Sonoanatomy

1440-1500: Practicalities of ultrasound guided procedures

Hands on practical session

1500-1600: Knobology and scanning techniques

1600 -1620 Tea and cakes

1620- 1720 Practical scanning on models and needling practice with phantoms

1720 - Finish

July 7th 2010 - Ultrasound Basics

Optional - half day program on Wednesday 7^th July – for those clinicians not as confident in the use of ultrasound.

1330 1400 Registration

1400- 1420 Physics of Ultrasound

1420-1440          Basic Sonoanatomy

1440- 1500 Practicalities of ultrasound guided procedures

Hands on practical session

1500-1600          Knobology and scanning techniques

1600 -1620 Tea and cakes

1620- 1720 Practical scanning on models and needling practice with phantoms

1720 - Finish