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Workshop - Use of ultrasound for decompression research

October 12-13, 2016

Available seats: 16

Following on from the successful Ultrasound 2015 meeting in Karlskrona, we are pleased to offer a taught course / workshop that will train participants to use 2D ultrasound for diving research. Ultrasound monitoring permits researchers to form a sense of the ‘decompression stress’ that a diver has been subject to during a particular dive profile, as it allows the user a four chamber slice view of the diver’s heart. In this way, bubbles caused by decompression and returning via the venous circulation to the lungs maybe monitored. The technique is used commonly when performing diving research and particularly as an alternative to the use of decompression sickness as an endpoint when dive table testing.

This course is part of the Continuous Medical Education (CME) for Diving Medicine Physicians and the Medical Examiners of Divers and accredited by the ECB

Topics

The course will include classroom sessions exploring the techniques used to monitor decompression bubbles (also touching on Doppler audio), bubble pathophysiology, the function of the machines, grading systems and will closely follow the Consensus Guidelines drawn up at Ultrasound 2015 for good practice when designing studies involving bubble monitoring. There will be three practical sessions, where divers will be monitored following wet/dry dives and plenty of opportunities to learn the techniques involved.
The following subjects will be covered:
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  •  - bubble pathophysiology,
  •  - ultrasound techniques,
  •  - ultrasound bubble detection,
  •  - grading systems,
  •  - how to design and run a study,
  •  - practical sessions,

 

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