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Troubleshooting US-Guided Nerve Blocks for First-Pass Success Free Webinar

Troubleshooting US-Guided Nerve Blocks for First-Pass Success Free Webinar

 

Troubleshooting Ultrasound-Guided Nerve Blocks for First-Pass Success - Free Webinar



Troubleshooting Ultrasound-Guided Nerve Blocks for First-Pass Success - Free Webinar

Date: April 23, 2026

  • Improve block success rates with practical troubleshooting techniques you can apply immediately in clinical practice
  • Learn expert tips to enhance needle visualization, optimize imaging, and avoid common pitfalls
  • Increase confidence and efficiency in ultrasound-guided nerve blocks to deliver safer, more effective patient care
  • Learn from expert faculty at Gulfcoast Ultrasound Institute—focused, practical, CME-driven education
  • Interactive live-stream with opportunity to have your questions answered by the faculty at the end of the webinar

Overview

The Troubleshooting US-Guided Nerve Block for First-Pass Success webinar is designed to help clinicians overcome common challenges encountered during ultrasound-guided nerve blocks. Through expert insights and real-world examples, participants will learn how to optimize needle visualization, improve image acquisition, recognize pitfalls, and enhance block success rates. Ideal for both novice and experienced providers, this session focuses on actionable techniques to increase confidence, efficiency, and patient safety in everyday practice.

Code: TUGNB-261W
ID: 8226

Schedule

Thursday, April 23, 2026 12:30 PM EST - Thursday, April 23, 2026 1:30 PM EST

Topics

  • Positioning yourself and the patient for success
  • Optimization of the ultrasound image
  • Drawing and injecting anesthetic to minimize air entry
  • Planning the path of the needle
  • Calculating the dose

Objectives

  • Demonstrate how to ergonomically position the patient and ultrasound system for various ultrasound-guided nerve blocks.
  • Describe how to optimize the ultrasound image utilizing presets, gain, depth, beam steering, etc.
  • Describe how to draw up and inject anesthetic to minimize air entry.
  • Identify a safe needle trajectory using ultrasound guidance to avoid nearby structures.
  • Identify intramuscular anesthetic infiltration.
  • Calculate safe dose of anesthetic for specific nerve blocks.

Tuition

Registration: $0.00

Audience

This live webinar is intended for physicians and advance practice providers involved with performing ultrasound-guided nerve blocks in the emergency setting. Physician participants may include, but are not limited to: emergency and critical care physicians, surgeons, hospitalists, internal medicine physicians, and any other point of care medical professionals

Faculty

GulfCoast Ultrasound Institute

Mit Patel  MD

Ultrasound Fellow, Tampa General Hospital
No relevant financial relationships to disclose.

Content Validation
All presentations for this CME activity were reviewed and approved by members of the GUI CME Review Committee to determine content validity and to ensure that no conflicts of interest exist prior to the activity commencement or material compilation.

Disclosure of Individuals in Control of Content
In addition to the faculty listed the following individuals are recognized by GUI as being in control of content of this program:

James Mateer, MD, RDMS (Medical Director - planner, QI Task Force)
Gulfcoast Ultrasound Institute
Milwaukee, WI
No relevant financial relationships to disclose.

Charlotte Derr, MD, RDMS, FACEP, FPD-AEMUS (Co-Medical Director - planner, QI Task Force)
Professor of Emergency Medicine
Fellowship Director of Advanced Emergency Medicine Ultrasound Fellowship Program
University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine
Tampa, FL
No relevant financial relationships to disclose

Andreas Dewitz, MD, RDMS (Member of Advisory Board & QI Task Force Subcommittee)
Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine
Clinical Director of POCUS Education, Solomont Simulation Center
Department of Emergency Medicine Boston Medical Center
Boston, MA.
No relevant financial relationships to disclose

Lori Green, BA, RDMS, RDCS, RVT (Program Director - planner, Content Reviewer, QI Task Force)
Program Director and President,
Gulfcoast Ultrasound Institute, Inc.
St Petersburg, FL.
No relevant financial relationships to disclose

Trisha Reo, AAS, RDMS, RVT (Program Coordinator - planner, Content Reviewer, QI Task Force)
Gulfcoast Ultrasound Institute, Inc.
St Petersburg, FL.
No relevant financial relationships to disclose

Mark Swanson, RDMS, RVT (Senior Clinical/ Product Specialist - planner, Content Reviewer, QI Task Force)
Gulfcoast Ultrasound Institute, Inc.
St Petersburg, FL.
No relevant financial relationships to disclose


Disclosure of Commercial Support
There was no commercial support involved in the planning, development/implementation of this activity.


Credits (Optional with additional purchase)

The Gulfcoast Ultrasound Institute is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.


The Gulfcoast Ultrasound Institute designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

This course also meets CME/CEU requirements for ARDMS. Note: While offering the CME credit hours noted above, activities are not intended to provide extensive training or certification for exam performance or interpretation.

Resources

41 YEARS

Serving the Medical Community

200,000+

Participants Trained

500,000+

CME Credits Awarded

6,000+

Courses Offered

CONFIDENCE, COMPETENCE, PROVEN RESULTS

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