OVERVIEW

The UC San Diego Musculoskeletal Ultrasound and Guided Joint Injections Educational Activities have been created to provide a comprehensive modular curriculum to teach point-of-care musculoskeletal ultrasound for the evaluation of ankles, knees, elbows, hips and spine, and to guide intra-articular needle placement for injections and aspirations. Small groups with a high faculty to participant ratio provide highly interactive learning environment with ample opportunity for hands-on practice with each other and patient volunteers. Course participants will learn basic ultrasound physics, how to operate ultrasound machines (including the use of small emerging small hand-held devices), sono-anatomy and sono-pathology of important arthritic conditions as well as ultrasound-guided joint injection techniques. The curriculum will also teach how to recognize joint bleeds and distinguish between simple and complex effusions, as well as the Joint Activity and Damage Exam (JADE), a validated joint ultrasound protocol for evaluation of hemophilic joints.

This program is offered several times annually, and is held in San Diego, California at the UC San Diego Health Hemophilia & Thrombosis Treatment Center at UC San Diego Health.

TARGET AUDIENCE

Specialties - Critical Care, Emergency Medicine, Family Medicine-Family Practice, Orthopaedic Surgery, Pediatrics, Radiation Oncology, Radiology
Professions - Fellow/Resident, Medical Assistant, Medical Student, Nurse , Nurse Assistant, Nursing Home Administrator, Occupational Therapist, Physical Therapist, Physician, Physician Assistant, Scientist / Researcher

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Upon completion of this activity, learners should be able to:

1. Describe MSKUS basics, physics and knobology
2. Discuss the basic operations of an ultrasound machine
3. Describe sono-anatomy of ankles, knees, elbows, hip (including sacroiliac joints), facet joints, and shoulders
4. Interpret basic structural abnormalities by sono-pathological findings
5. Apply standard MSKUS transducer positions for ankles, knees, elbows, hip (including sacroiliac joints), facet joints, and shoulders
6. Describe the Joint Tissue Activity and Damage Exam (JADE) Hemophilia joint ultrasound protocol
7. Describe the diagnosis of effusions
8. Describe bloody from non-bloody effusions
9. Describe a diagnostic MSKUS recognizing hemarthrosis, synovitis, and structural abnormalities (such as meniscus, tendons, and ligaments)
10. Describe synovitis by Power Doppler
11. Describe cartilage health, soft tissue and synovial hypertrophy, and osteochondral lesions
12. Describe techniques and protocols for performing ultrasound-guided injections
13. Apply ultrasound-guided needle placement
14. Identify sonographic interfaces for accurate needle placement and injections
15. Describe the benefit of ultrasound-guided injections of the hip and shoulder

ACCREDITATION

The University of California San Diego School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The University of California San Diego School of Medicine designates this Live Activity activity for a maximum of 22.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Maximum credit available per day as follows:

Day 1: 8.0 credits

Day 2: 7.0 credits

Day 3: 7.25 credits

AAPA: AAPA accepts certificates of participation for educational activities certified for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ from organizations accredited by ACCME or a recognized state medical society. Physician assistants may receive a maximum of 22.25 hours of Category 1 credit for completing this program.

For more information please visit the official event page.