Ultrasound for Surgeons or better
Surgical Ultrasonography is modifying the surgical practice
both in emergency and in elective surgery.
Operative decision making, and patient
care are significantly improved by using the ultrasound.
This evidence makes necessary to provide a wide and
qualified educational offer for surgeons who are interested
in getting deeper in the use of ultrasound in their
daily practice. For this purpose the European School
of Surgical Ultrasonography (E.S.S.U.) has been thought
and established: targets of ESSU are providing a main
course, which could introduce surgeons to the various
aspects of surgical ultrasonography, but also offering
other courses dedicated to focus on specific use of
ultrasound such as the intraoperative use, the use in
emergency, the use for guiding interventional procedures,
and the endocavitary use. For that, ESSU is the place
where surgeons may focus on physical principles of ultrasound
use in clinical practice, could find details on ultrasound
equipment, may learn on diagnostic and interventional
ultrasound-guided procedures, and could be introduced
to the intraoperative use of ultrasound.
All this will be done with lectures,
live demonstrations and skill sessions involving an
outstanding international faculty of specialists in
the various fields of ultrasound clinical applications.
Better understanding of ultrasound and moreover acquisition
of the bases to start their own practice with it is
the mission of ESSU, which should allow present and
next generation of surgeons to feel the way ultrasound
is changing their surgical practice, and to perform
safer and more effective surgical procedures.
Guido Torzilli, MD, PhD
Marco Montorsi, MD
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