eIntegrity | Award-winning online healthcare courses - Echocardiography & lung ultrasound training

Essential echocardiography training for doctors

ICE-BLU covers the theoretical knowledge required to undertake cardiac echo and lung ultrasound at the bedside. It is suitable for intensive care and acute medicine doctors, anaesthetists and all clinicians who care for critically ill patients.

A high-quality echocardiography course

The comprehensive content covers a variety of themes such as the physics of ultrasound, anatomy and basic views, life-threatening pathologies and basic lung ultrasound. It has been written in the UK by expert clinicians who use echocardiography in their daily practice and teach on the subject.

Enhance your skills using interactive exercises

The learning sessions include clinical diagrams, echocardiography images, videos and self-assessment questions, to help reinforce learning and understanding. This e-learning can be used to prepare for hands-on training or as a refresher to consolidate and expand existing knowledge and understanding.

ICE-BLU has been developed by the Intensive Care Society, the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine and the Association for Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia and Critical Care. This echo course is structured around the UK’s Focused Intensive Care Echocardiography (FICE) curriculum and accreditation scheme but the content is relevant to anyone with an interest in bedside echo.

Easy online access

ICE-BLU is available via the Internet so you can study in the workplace, at home or even on the move.

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Course content

This e-learning package features nine e-learning sessions. Each session takes around 30 minutes to complete.

Which patients benefit from basic echo?
Physics of ultrasound and image optimisation
Anatomy and basic views
Left ventricular function
Right ventricular function
Pathology
Basic lung ultrasound
Limitations and pitfalls
ICE-BLU summative MCQ

For a full list of all the modules and sessions for our programmes, please go to: http://portal.eintegrity.org/catalogue

Free trial sessions

Below you can complete a sample e-learning session for free. See how the e-learning works and how the interactive features enhance your knowledge and understanding.

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Anatomy and Basic Views

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This session looks at basic anatomy of the heart and lungs plus the relationship of this anatomy to the position of the ultrasound probe on the chest. The four basic transthoracic echocardiography (TTE or 'echo') windows and basic lung ultrasound views will be covered.

Testimonials

Learning a new skill can be a major challenge for an experienced consultant. Attending courses helps of course but what I really needed was a straightforward and accessible training package at my fingertips. The ICE-BLU package delivers that perfectly for me.

Dr Gary Masterson, Consultant in Critical Care Medicine and Anaesthesia

Developed by clinical experts in the UK, these interactive programmes deliver exceptionally high-quality training for anaesthesia, critical care and pain management specialists. This can only help to improve the quality and safety of patient care.

Dr Julia Moore OBE FRCA, Consultant Anaesthetist