Second Trimester Ultrasound for Sonographers

Learn more about the Second Trimester Ultrasound for Sonographers

Outcomes

Are you ready to develop your second trimester ultrasound skills?

Zedu's five-day Second Trimester Ultrasound for Sonographers course offers an immersive and practical experience to fast-track your skills development and get you work-ready.

Who should attend

Trainee sonographers who need to learn new skills.
Newly qualified sonographers seeking to enhance their confidence and skill level.
Return-to-practice sonographers in need of skill refreshment.
Sonographers who are looking to change roles and want to hone their skills.

How you will learn

At Zedu, we believe in a comprehensive learning approach.

Our renowned hands-off teaching methods ensure you get more hands-on scanning practice. Our courses blend theory seamlessly with extensive practical sessions.

You'll understand the concepts and apply them in real-world scenarios. We take a step-by-step, structured approach to examinations, ensuring everything is covered thoroughly and nothing is left to chance.

The focus on repetitive practice ensures that you learn and retain the knowledge. You will practice on real people of various body shapes, sizes, and ages.

We start by developing your skills with normal, uncomplicated patients and then progress to more challenging body habitus’.

This gradual progression ensures that you build a solid foundation before tackling more complex scenarios, giving you the confidence to handle any situation. Additionally, you'll develop communication skills to support your clinical practice.

What the course covers

You will learn how to:

Move the probe intentionally to get the image you want.
Use the machine controls to optimise images proficiently.
Apply a systematic approach and structured protocol for scanning the
- Cervix
- Placenta
- Maternal anatomy
- Fetal anatomy
Determine what images to take and why.
Structure the examination to ensure that all relevant anatomical structures and measurements are systematically assessed promptly, reducing the risk of missing important findings.
Communicate effectively in the exam room to obtain an appropriate presenting history, address patient concerns, and enhance patient satisfaction.
Perform accurate biometric measurements (BPD, HC, AC and FL).
Identify normal sonoanatomy and the appearances of common pathologies.
Purposefully acquire images of the fetal anatomy (Brain, face, heart, thorax, abdomen, limbs and digits).
Use sonographic terminology to accurately communicate ultrasound findings and complete worksheets for various imaging scenarios.

Running time

Day one: 8.30 - 17.00

Day two to five: 09.00 - 17.00

Location - the Zedu Learning HQ, Melbourne

Course outline

🖥️ Scanning principles

Explore system controls & knobology
Understand the impact of optimisation on the image
How to find the right window & get good images
3D awareness of the anatomical position of the anatomy
Ergonomics

🔊Doppler applications

Understand & optimise colour, power, & spectral Doppler for obstetrics
Explore colour, power & spectral Doppler knobology & optimisation for:
- Maternal environment
- Cardiac assessment
- Cord assessment
- Fetal structures (e.g. renal arteries, mass etc.)
🤰 Scanning practice on real women in their second trimester of pregnancy

🗣️Communication

How to gain a good history
What to do when the news isn’t good
How to hand over findings to a radiologist
Writing up worksheets - what needs to be said?

🔍Maternal environment

Cervix assessment & measurement
Placenta sonoanatomy & assessment
Umbilical cord sonoantomy & assessment
Explore placental pathologies
Recognise normal & abnormal imaging
Limitations & pitfalls
Minimum imaging sequence
🤰 Scanning practice on real women in their second trimester of pregnancy

🔍Fetal lie & situs

Systematic approach for assessing fetal lie & situs
🤰 Scanning practice on real women in their second trimester of pregnancy

🔍Fetal head

Sonoanatomy of the fetal brain & facial structures
Assessment and measurement of cerebellum, cisterna magna, nuchal fold & lateral ventricle
Minimum imaging sequence
🤰 Scanning practice on real women in their second trimester of pregnancy

🔍Fetal heart

B-mode & colour assessment of:
- Situs
- 4CH
- Outflow tracts
- Pulmonary inflow
- IVS
- 3VV
- 3VT
- Aortic arch, ductal arch & IVC
🤰 Scanning practice on real women in their second trimester of pregnancy

🔍Fetal thorax & abdomen

Lungs
Diaphragm
Stomach
Kidneys & renal arteries
Cord insertion & 3VC
Bowel
Bladder
🤰 Scanning practice on real women in their second trimester of pregnancy

🔍Fetal spine

Recognition & assessment in 3 planes
🤰 Scanning practice on real women in their second trimester of pregnancy

🔍Fetal extremities

Assessment of limbs & digits
🤰 Scanning practice on real women in their second trimester of pregnancy

🔍Fetal biometry

BPD, HC, AC, FL & HL
🤰 Scanning practice on real women in their second trimester of pregnancy

🏁Putting it all together

How to approach the scan
Differing approaches to scan completion (scan in planes, scan top-to-toe, scan in blocks etc.)
What to do with the tricky baby/tricky lady (how to get bub to behave)
🤰 Scanning practice on real women in their second trimester of pregnancy