Meeting Summary

Tuesday 20 April 2010
Birmingham City Hospital, Birmingham

FEEL (UK) is a one day course intended to train practitioners in the use of trans-thoracic echocardiography (TTE) during the peri-resuscitation period.  It has been adapted from the FEER course developed and run by Dr Raoul Breitkreutz (Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Hospital, Frankfurt am Main) and thus has been well-validated.

The course format included attendance at a 50:50 mixture of didactic lectures, and small group hands on training (maximum 3 trainees/trainer). Thus, course size was limited to 30 candidates.

Programme

Aims of the course programme:

• Achieve standard TTE views – subcostal +/- IVC/ PLAX/ PSAX/ Ap4C
• Perform ALS-conformed echocardiography – synchronised with pulse checks thus limiting no-flow intervals
• Image interpretation : diagnosis + treatable causes of cardiac arrest/circulatory collapse    
• myocardial insufficiency - pulmonary embolus(PE) v LVF
• pericardial collection(PC)
• hypovolaemia v myocardial infarction
• exclusion of VF
• Communicate findings to the resuscitation team
• Pitfalls and limitations
• Local implementation

FEEL UK Seminar programme

Faculty

Dr Rupali Saluja - Course Organiser
Sarbjit Claire - Course Director
Suneel Desai
Dr Deepak Goyal
Dr Susanna Price
Dr Shahana Uddin
Dr Gavin Perkins
Dr Dan Strong

Trainers

Dr Ranada Abasaeed Elhag
Dr K Murali
Ms Lesley Parry
Dr Krishna Lalukota
Dr Michael Reay
Dr Dan Strong
Dr Damian Perrin

Exhibition and Sponsorship

The Intensive Care Society was extremely grateful to the following companies for kindly providing equipment for this event:

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