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Course reference: vascularstudyday2024
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Vascular update: Arterial assessment, diagnosis, treatment & referral decisions. Using the 3Ps, WIfI and SBAR approach, to help save more lives and limbs
6hours CPD course with Martin Fox and Sue Matthews
* Delegates MUST bring their own Dopplers, gel and any sphyg cuffs for the workshop sessions.
* Where possible, can delegates wear loose trousers or similar and avoid wearing tights, to allow group practice of Doppler technique on foot, ankle and rear knee (popliteal) pulses.
PROGRAMME
9.00 Welcome & introductions: Sue Matthews & Martin Fox
PAD – changing the podiatry paradigm and meeting best clinical guidance
Anatomy basics – the key arteries we need to know, find and check
Workshop: Doppler on arm & Doppler handling technique revisited
10.00 PAD, cardiovascular & limb risks – can we really save lives and limbs?
Workshop: Sphyg & Doppler use together on a limb – demo & try
Claudication, rest pain & cramps – differentiating as deadly symptoms .. or not?
11.00 Break
11.30 Putting it together: the 3Ps PAD assessment – why we need systolic pressures
Doppler waveform quiz – 10 multiple choice audio clips – what do we hear?
Taking the systolic pressure out of the toes… important or not?
12.30 Lunch
13.30 Demonstration – foot to femoral pulses palpation & Doppler + ABPI & toe pressures
Chronic limb threatening ischaemia: using the national wound care guidance + WIfI and
SBAR tools, to support identification, triage and concise, confident communication
Workshop: Pulses, Doppler & pressures – the 10 mins limb of concern assessment
15.00 Break
15.15 Quick fire real life (vascular) podiatry cases – decisions.. decisions.. decisions..
The importance of small sustainable steps and the big Ebbinghaus question …
Vascular podiatry CPD resources & any final questions?
16.15 Finish
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