(2023 On-Demand) Starting Difficult IVs and Central Lines with POCUS

CME Credit Available:

This activity offers 0.75 1A AOA 

Note: ACOI reports credits to the AOA at the end of each quarter.

Learning Objectives:

In this session, you'll learn how to:

Identify several types where standard peripheral intravenous access would be difficult without ultrasound guidance.
Describe the advantages of ultrasound guidance over other methods.
Describe the two standard approaches and techniques for vein cannulation under ultrasound guidance.

Conflict of Interest Disclosures:

ACOI requires each planner and presenter to identify all conflicts of interest and mitigates risk of bias using a series of strategies for relevant conflicts. Unless otherwise noted below, the ACOI, ACOI staff and planners for this activity have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.

Dr. Peter Bonadonna, has disclosed the following financial relationships:

Owner & Teaching Faculty – Insonate LLC

Release & Review Date:

This activity is valid until May 13, 2023, until May 13, 2026.

Peter Bonadonna

Owner and Teaching Faculty

Insonate, LLC

Peter Bonadonna is a veteran paramedic having 42 years in metropolitan and rural EMS experience. In addition to a field practice, for the last 30 years he directed the Monroe Community College Paramedic Program, a CAAHEP accredited program in Rochester, New York. In addition to Point of Care Ultrasound, Peter teaches advanced 12 Lead interpretation and ACLS to critical care providers.

A pioneer of sorts, Peter was the first provider to put a computer in the ambulance for medical records and one of the originators of using cell phones for biotelemetry and medical control. Despite objections, he continued to teach paramedics to read and interpret 12 lead ECGs two years before the equipment was available to acquire them in the ambulance.

Today, Peter is doing the exact same thing with Point-of-Care ultrasound (POCUS). He has an ultrasound machine in the classroom and teaches anatomy and physiology with the device so that students can actually see what they’re learning about. Peter recognizes that point-of-care ultrasound is transformative and can substantially improve the care we deliver in the prehospital and hospital environment.

Peter is now on a mission to educate the medical masses about the benefits of POCUS. In addition to paramedics he regularly teaches physicians, nurses, physician assistants, therapists and any provider who examines and treats patients.

Peter will prove to you that POCUS is accurate, easy safe and tremendously powerful in terms of what it can offer the health care provider.