• Welcome Address

• Principles for US use
  · Instruments & Gray-scale images
  · Principles of Doppler
  · Contrast agents
  · Hepatobiliopancreatic and splenic Ultrasound
  · Intestinal Ultrasound
  · Abdominal wall

• Skills percutaneous US
  · Keyboard learning and image adjustments
  · Doppler and Color flow modalities Ultrasound
  · Hepatobiliopancreatic and splenic Ultrasound
  · Intestinal Ultrasound

• Intraoperative ultrasonography in liver surgery
  · Liver anatomy & techniques of exploration
  · Staging without and with contrast
  · Resection guidance
  · Laparoscopic US

• Skills
  · Intraoperative US with phantoms

• Live Demonstration (Surgery)

• Principles of interventional ultrasonography: punctures, drainages & ablations
  · Needles & catheters
  · Techniques for ultrasound guided punctures & drainages
  · Liver Biopsy: rationale
  · Liver Biopsy: perspectives
  · Ablation Techniques: radiofrequency
  · Ablation Techniques: laser
  · Ablation Techniques: microwaves
  · Which method for ablation?

• Skills
  · Guided punctures

• Live Demonstration (Surgery)

• Live Demonstration (PAT)

• Ultrasound in Emergency
  · Apendicitis
  · Bowel occlusion
  · Ultrasound in Trauma
  · FAST & CEUS FAST ultrasonography

• Skills
  · Emergency Ultrasound

• MEET THE MASTERS LECTURE

• Live Demonstration (Surgery)

• Skills & Closing Remarks