Director of Emergency Ultrasound NYU Langone Long Island Mineola, New York
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose
Session Description: They come to the ED, bellies full, not of food but of ascites! How can you improve your paracentesis skills? What are some ways to improve your efficiency in performing this procedure? This session will briefly review the importance of performing a paracentesis early. It will discuss ways to improve your success rate in this procedure and to minimize complications. Hopefully you will leave the session doing something that you are not already doing to improve your next abdominal tap.
Learning Objectives:
List the contraindications to a paracentesis.
Summarize the basic steps to a paracentesis procedure.
Perform an ultrasound guided paracentesis using multiple methods easily.
List the indications for diagnostic and therapeutic paracentesis.