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Dear colleagues,
Nepean Institute of Critical Care Education & Research of Australia is organizing a RACEplus course in HK and we have the pleasure of co-organizing the course with HK College of Emergency Medicine (Intensive Care Subcommittee) and Department of Anesthesia of Queen Elizabeth Hospital. On behalf of the organiser, ,I cordially invite you to attend the course in Jan 2013.
Rapid Assessment by Cardiac Echo – RACE
RACE is a focused transthoracic 2D echocardiography (TTE) examination specifically designed for critical care doctors who do not need to perform full TTE examination. RACE aims to answer four focused questions in the critical care setting:
1. What is the left ventricular function?
2. What is the right ventricular function?
3. Is there any evidence of pericardial effusion and cardiac tamponade?
4. What is the flui d status?
The RACEplus training course is a 2-day course, which include the RACE, didactic sessions and hands-on practice concentrating on TTE, and other ultrasound components such as Doppler echo, lung ultrasound, vascular ultrsound or FAST. The course is truly developed and run by critical care specialists. It places a lot of emphasis on hands-on training and its applications in the critical care setting. Due to its practicality, RACE is welcomed not only in Australia and New Zealand, but also in other parts of the world, in particular European countries (Belgium, Czech Republic, the Netherlands and Sweden) and some parts of Asia (Indonesia, Singapore, Hong Kong SAR).
Our trainers are very well experienced critical care consultants/sonographers.
Professor Anthony McLean, the Director of ICU and Cardiovascular Ultrasound Laboratory at Nepean Hospital, is regarded as one of the founders of critical care echo. He is also the Discipline Head of Intensive Care Medicine at the University of Sydney, the incumbent President of Nepean Institute of Critical Care Education and Research and the Asia Pacific Association of Critical Care Medicine. Professor McLean serves as faculty member in various international conferences and courses, including ISICEM, Brussels.
Associate Professor Stephen Huang is a physiologist and the Principal Research Fellow of Nepean ICU and University of Sydney Medical School. He is also the Director of NICCER. Ms Iris Ting is a clinical nurse consultant and the manager of the Cardiovascular Ultrasound Laboratory, Nepean Hospital. Both of them are experienced teachers in various echo courses both nationally and internationally.
I am sure you will, like all other colleagues who attended RACE around the world, find the course useful in your day-to-day practice. I look forward to meeting you in the course.
Yours sincerely,
KW Lam
For Dr. KY Lai,
COS,
Intensive Care Unit,
Queen Elizabeth Hospital