FATE Grundlagenkurs

The Basic Cardiac Ultrasound (FATE) course in German.

Comprehensive Perioperative TEE

TEE has a major impact on patient management during the perioperative period. It has become an evolving and indispensable tool in diagnosis of cardiovascular disease and hemodynamic assessment.

This course gives you the necessary knowledge to perform a comprehensive TEE examination so you can make the best possible decisions in the operating room and the ICU.

Basic Perioperative TEE

TEE has a major impact on management and outcome of cardiac disease. It has also become an evolving and indispensable tool in the diagnose, hemodynamic assessment, monitoring and optimization.

This e-course is primarily dedicated to the thorax anesthesiologists,
thorax surgeons and cardiologists who are getting acquainted with the ”cardiac patients” in the operating room, ICU or emergency room.

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Basic Cardiac Ultrasound (FATE) (Spanish)

Basic Cardiac Ultrasound (FATE) e-course in Spanish

Basic Cardiac Ultrasound (FATE) (Japanese)

Basic Cardiac Ultrasound (FATE) in Japanese.

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Essential Emergency Ultrasonography

The Essential Emergency Ultrasonography e-learning course abandons conventional protocols and focuses instead on the clinical yes/no questions you need to ask when you are dealing with emergency patients in daily practice.

The objective is to teach you how to use medical ultrasound like you use your stethoscope. It is relevant for all physicians taking care of patients with potentially life-threatening and time-critical conditions.

Advanced Cardiac Ultrasound (FATE)

FATE is an acronym for “Focus Assessed Transthoracic Echocardiography” and is the original focused echo protocol for all physicians. FATE is easily and quickly learned and can be applied in all clinical scenarios.

The Advanced FATE course will take you the final step in order to do a comprehensive cardiac evaluation of the critically ill patient.

FATE course – Basic Cardiac Ultrasound

Take this FATE – Basic Cardiac Ultrasound course and improve your patient care.

The FATE Cardiac Ultrasound Course – Focus Assessed Transthoracic Echocardiography (FATE) is the original focused cardiac ultrasound protocol practiced since 1989.

The FATE protocol is quick and easy to learn and can be applied in all clinical scenarios: the perioperative, the pre- and in-hospital, the intensive care and the emergency settings.

A free sample of the course – ‘Postion 1: The subcostal view’ can be viewed HERE

This is what you’ll learn:

The normal sonographic features of heart and pleura
How to obtain the 6 basic FATE views
Eye-balling of right and left ventricular function
M-mode for assessing cardiac dimensions and function
The most important pathologies
How to interpret the echocardiographic findings

These basic echocardiographic skills are useful for physicians who are not specialists of cardiology, e.g. anaesthesiologists, intensivists, emergency physicians, internal medicine physicians, surgeons, general practitioners. In fact, all healthcare professionals dealing with hemodynamic problems in their daily clinic can benefit from knowing the FATE protocol.

Please allow 6-8 hours to complete the e-course.

Your patients will benefit from your new knowledge because FATE:

is quick and easy to perform
can be performed in the sitting position and in any location
is applicable in all clinical scenarios, e.g. pre- peri- and post-operatively, in intensive care, emergencies, resuscitation and so on.

Hands-on training

After completing the e-course you are ready to start getting experience in using the ultrasound machine. Completion is mandatory if you are going to attend a USabcd hands-on FATE – Basic Cardiac Ultrasound workshop. You can see all our hands-on courses in our workshop calendar.

The British Intensive Care Society has FICE approved the FATE protocol. Likewise, the FATE e-course covers the entire FOCUS curriculum. In other words, you can use the FATE – Basic Cardiac Ultrasound e-course as preparation for FICE, FOCUS and any other Point of Care cardiac ultrasound courses as it covers all learning objectives.

The FATE card

The FATE card is a pocket guide to obtaining the cardiac views. Learn more about it here.

The author

The author of the course is Prof. Erik Sloth, who invented the original focused cardiac ultrasound protocol practiced since 1989 (FATE = Focus Assessed Transthoracic Echocardiography).

The FATE – Basic Cardiac Ultrasound e-course is built on the foundation of this article.
Description on FATE-protocol on Wikipedia.
Focus-Assessed Transthoracic Echocardiography: Implications in Perioperative and Intensive Care by Amarja Sachin Nagre in Annals of cardiac anaesthesia 22(3); Jul-Sep 2019.
Focused Assessed Transthoracic Echo: Bedside Ultrasound/ Point of Care Ultrasound approach to the cardiac and pleural space examination. Dr. Liz Turner, Director of Bedside Ultrasound, UCLA.
Focus Assessed Transthoracic Echocardiography (FATE) Courses at HSS. Dr. Stephen Haskins, Department of Anesthesiology at Hospital for Special Surgery offers annual point-of-care ultrasound/Basic focus assessed transthoracic echocardiography (FATE) courses for anesthesiologists around the country.