Table 1 Course content of interprofessional point-of-care ultrasound workshop

Exam preparation

• Room set-up: machine placement, bed positioning, dimming lights

• Machine set-up: patient information, probe selection, exam-type

• Patient set-up: communication, positioning, maintaining modesty

Right kidney

• Pre-scanning: labeling, probe positioning, site survey, techniques to aid image acquisition

• Scanning: image optimization (depth, gain, centering), fanning organ in long and short axis, saving video loops

• Anatomy identification: liver, hepatorenal recess, renal cortex, medullary pyramids, renal sinus

Left kidney

• Pre-scanning: labeling, probe positioning, site survey, techniques to aid image acquisition

• Scanning: image optimization, fanning organ in long and short axis, saving video loops

• Anatomy identification: liver, splenorenal recess, renal cortex, medullary pyramids, renal sinus

Bladder

• Pre-scanning: labeling, probe positioning, site survey

• Scanning: image optimization, fanning organ in long and short axis, freezing image, measuring bladder dimensions, saving images

• Bladder volume calculation

Gallbladder

• Pre-scanning: labeling, probe positioning, site survey, techniques to aid image acquisition

• Scanning: image optimization, fanning organ in long and short axis, saving video loops

• Anatomy identification: liver, gallbladder body and neck, main lobar fissure, portal vein