Lung Ultrasound in Neonatology

Background

The MPROvE Point of Care Ultrasound-Lung (POCUS)was established in 2023. MPROvE relates to multidisciplinary education of any kind (i.e. multidisciplinary neonatal simulation, or TEL) being used to improve the quality of care and or neonatal outcomes. The MPROvE team delivers this POCUS course in 2 modules. The intention is to help institutions, hospitals, teams and specialties develop skills in POCUS using simulation and technology-enhanced learning as an educational tool POCUS helps with the delivery of high quality neonatal care and to improve neonatal outcomes. The course can be run locally in your department or delivered anywhere in the world over 2 days. The team can provide hands-on training on day 2 with parental consent. The intention is to train you as a team.

Course Overview-Module 1 and Module 2

The MPROvE LUS is the first of 5 modules in learning neonatal POCUS. It has been developed by Neonatologists, and experts in TEL education. Each course has a didactic theoretical component followed by hands-on training in knobology, image optimisation, image acquisition, storage, interpretation and reporting.

Training provided includes learning how to develop an evidence-based approach to LUS-Video

The course addresses the following over 2 days-

• Educational principles of learning LUS, Adult learning theory, Competency acquisition and logbooks

• Basic principles in LUS Physics, Artefact, and LUS patterns

• Recognition of the Normal versus the Abnormal Lung

• Recognition of Lung Pathology in the Term and Preterm Neonate (Qualitative LUS)

• Approach to Lung US scoring and Quantitative LUS

• Role of LUS algorithms in diagnosis of relevant clinical symptomatology

• Medico-legal implications of LUS versus CXR whilst learning; Guideline development ,Training and Privileging

• The 2nd day has a hands-on component covering Knobology, Image optimisation, Image acquisition, storage, Interpretation and Reporting. Participants & Preparation For courses held in the UK, participants are limited to 15. The number of participants for courses abroad and days over which the course is held need to be discussed with the organisers.

All participants must fill in a pre-course questionnaire for a needs assessment. Mentorship Please note that this course is face to face and all materials are provided as PDFs. There is also access to library of videos and articles that are open access. Formal mentorship is only available as part of the online LUS course runs annually over 3 months. Please note as additional material is added to the video content, participants have access to this as well and can contribute material which they would like to, under their own authorship, without MPROvE branding. Resources After course completion course participants can access the following

1. Presentations 2. LUS Library 3. A repository of youtube videos in neonatology 4. Any material that you might want to teach LUS is available on request by emailing mproveonline@gmail.com

For more details contact mproveonline@gmail.com or go to www.mproveacademy.com