FEED (Focused Echo in the Emergency Department)

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Course Overview

FEED (Focused Echocardiography in the Emergency Department) is a practical, clinically focused course designed to equip clinicians with the core echocardiographic skills required to rapidly assess undifferentiated chest pain and the critically unwell patient in the emergency setting. The course emphasises pattern recognition, physiological understanding, and immediate clinical decision-making rather than comprehensive echocardiography. Participants will learn how to use focused cardiac ultrasound to identify time-critical pathology involving the right heart, left heart, and aorta, and to integrate echocardiography into the assessment of the crashing patient and during life support.

Who Should Attend?

Senior Emergency medicine clinicians, Acute Physicians, Intensivists, and senior trainees who wish to develop or refine focused echocardiography skills for real-time emergency decision-making.
Learn from Echocardiography experts- NHS Consultants and Specialist Echocardiographers

Course Curriculum

1. Foundations of FEED

Indications and limitations of focused echo in the ED
Image acquisition and optimisation
Core FEED views and systematic approach

2. Right Heart Causes of Chest Pain and Shortness of Breath

Acute right ventricular strain and failure
Pulmonary embolism: echocardiographic features
Pulmonary hypertension and cor pulmonale
Tamponade physiology and pericardial pathology

3. Left Heart Causes of Chest Pain and Shortness of Breath

Global and regional left ventricular systolic dysfunction
Acute coronary syndromes: wall motion abnormalities
Acute valvular pathology (e.g. acute MR, AS)
Cardiomyopathies relevant to emergency practice
Aortic Pathology
Acute aortic syndromes
Identification of aortic root dilation
Indirect echocardiographic signs of dissection
Role and limitations of echo in suspected aortic disease

4. The Crashing Patient

Rapid Echo in shock and cardiac arrest
Differentiating causes of undifferentiated hypotension
Echo-guided management in peri-arrest scenarios
Pitfalls and cognitive errors in high-stress situations

5. Bringing it all together

Providing a structures assessment tool for rapid assessment and diagnosis in emergency setting

6. Echo in Life Support

Integration of echo into ALS and peri-resuscitation care
Cardiac arrest Echo protocols
Reversible causes of arrest identifiable on Echo
Maintaining minimal interruptions to CPR, simulated scenarios

Course Objectives

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

Perform a focused echocardiographic assessment in the ED
Identify key echocardiographic features of life-threatening causes of chest pain
Use echo to support diagnosis and management of the crashing patient
Integrate echocardiography safely and effectively into life support and resuscitation

Course Format

A blend of short, high-yield lectures, image-based learning, case discussion, and plenty of hands-on practical scanning, and simulated scenarios with a strong emphasis on clinical application in the emergency department.

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