Common Neonatal imaging

Introduction

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VMA offers a total of four hours of an online crash course designed for neonatal health care providers to offer a broad exposure to chest and abdomen x-rays to understand techniques, artifacts and positioning, to relate detailed pathology and interpretation of neonatal X-ray images and to differentiate between normal and abnormal findings verses artifact.

To obtain CME credits (5 hours) you need to attend the course live.

Objectives

By the end of the course, learners will be able to:
- Recognize Normal neonatology chest and abdomen radiographic anatomy.
- Effective approaches in analyzing diagnostic imaging challenges in neonates term and preterm

Main theme

The course is about two days, each day has two hours:

First day :
Chest x-ray:
- TTN (Transient Tachypnea of the Newborn)
- RDS (Neonatal respiratory distress syndrome)
- CHD (congenital heart disease)
- The normal position of tubes/ lines (ETT, NGT, UVC, UAC)
- Other common cases

Second day:
Abdomen x-ray:
- Normal gas distribution
- Intestinal obstruction
- NEC (Necrotising enterocolitis) "bowel wall oedema with thumbprinting / pneumatosis intestinalis / pneumoperitoneum)
- Other common cases

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