Norwegian course in Rheumatological Sonopathology September 9 th - 11 th, 2015 Venue Department of Rheumatology, Haugesund Sanitetsforening Revmatismesykehus, Haugesund, Norway Course opening: Wednesday 9 th Sept. at 9 am Course closing: Friday 11 th Sept. at 3 pm Scientific organizer: Hilde Berner Hammer, MD, PhD Department of Rheumatology, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway Hilde Stray Department of Rheumatology, Haugesund Sanitetsforening Revmatismesykehus Andreas Diamantopoulos Department of Rheumatology, Haugesund Sanitetsforening Revmatismesykehus
Faculty: Norwegian Hilde Berner Hammer, Department of Rheumatology, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo Andreas Diamantopoulos, Department of Rheumatology, Hospital of Southern Norway Trust Kristiansand Daniel Hammerfors, Department of Rheumatology, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen Vivi Bakkeheim, Department of Rheumatology, St. Olavs Hospital, Trondheim Christian Høili, Department of Rheumatology, Moss Hospital, Moss Lars Karoliussen, Department of Rheumatology, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo Hallvard Fremstad, Department of Rheumatology, Ålesund Hospital, Ålesund International Lene Terslev, Department of Rheumatology, Copenhagen University Hospital at Glostrup, Copenhagen, Denmark Ingrid Möller, Faculty of medicine, CCS Bellvitge, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain Esperanza Naredo, Department of Rheumatology, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Complutense University, Madrid and Department of Rheumatology, Hospìtal Universitario Severo Ochoa, Madrid, Spain Maria-Antonietta D Agostino, Department of Rheumatology, Ambroise Paré Hospital, Boulogne-Billancourt, France Annamaria Iagnocco, Rheumatology Unit, Sapienza Universita di Roma, Rome, Italy
Course fee: NOK 10.000 Number of delegates; 24 (divided into 6 groups for hands-on sessions) Official languages: Norwegian and English Course registration Coordinator Bergen, Tove Hellem, e-mail address: Tove.Hellem@legeforeningen.no Questions regarding the course: Hilde Berner Hammer via e-mail: h-hammer@diakonsyk.no Educational Objectives Understand the physics and pitfalls for Doppler and use of Doppler in clinical rheumatology Learn how to use US in diagnosing and evaluation of patients with - Inflammatory arthritis and tenosynovitis - Enthesitis - Osteoarthritis and other degenerative diseases - Gout and CPPD - Inflammatory salivary glands - Vasculitis - Carpal tunnel syndrome Learn how to perform US guided injections Hands-on: About 75% of the course is hands-on teaching on patients with different rheumatic diseases
PROGRAM Wednesday 9 th of September 09.00 09.30 Doppler; Basic physics and use in clinical rheumatology - Lene Terslev 09.30 10.00 US in patients with RA and PsA; evaluation of joint synovitis and tenosynovitis - Esperanza Naredo 10.00 11.30 Hands-on: Adjusting power og colour Doppler for evaluation of inflamed joints in RA and PsA pasienter (30 min per pasient) 11.30 12.30 Lunch 12.30 14.00 Hands-on: Adjusting power og colour Doppler for evaluation of inflamed joints in RA and PsA pasienter (30 min per pasient) 14.00 14.30 Enthesitis Maria-Antonietta D Agostino 14.30-14.50 Coffee break with fruit 14.50 15.10 SI joints, anatomy and injections Ingrid Møller 15.10 15.40 Shoulder pain; degenerative changes and possible local treatment Ingrid Møller 15.40 16.15 Trochanter pain; bursitis and tendinopathies; possible UL detected causes and local treatment - Ingrid Møller 16.15 18.15 Hands-on: Enthesitis, SI joints, shoulder and trochanter (20 min per patient)
Thursday 18 th of September 09.00 09.40 Osteoarthritis Annamaria Iagnocco 09.40 10.00 Gout and CPPD Lene Terslev 10.00 12.00 Hands-on: Osteoarthrits and Gout/CPPD (30 min per patient) 12.00 13.00 Lunch 13.00 14.00 Hands-on: Osteoarthrits and Gout/CPPD (30 min per patient) 14.00 14.30 Vasculitis in small and large vessels - Andreas Diamantopoulos 14.30 15.00 US guided injections Hilde Berner Hammer 15.00 15.20 Coffee break with fruit 15.20 18.20 Hands-on: US of large vessels; normal and vasculitis. One station with US guided injection (chichen) (30 min per patient/injection)
Friday 19 th of September 09.00 09.15 Salivary glands in Mb Sjøgren Daniel Hammenfors 09.15 9.30 N.medianus (carpal tunnel syndrome) and n. ulnaris - Hilde Berner Hammer 09.30 11.30 Hands-on: Salivary glands and nerve pathology (20 min per patient) 11.30 12.30 Lunch 12.30 13.00 Scoring of synovitis in RA patients Hilde Berner Hammer 13.00 14.00 Hands-on: Scoring of synovitis in RA patients (30 min per patient two patients each group) 14.00 15.00 Course exam