Point-of-care ultrasound in emergency cases: is it cardio?

• Understand the main goals in POCUS
• Demonstrate a common POCUS protocol and identify useful echocardiographic views in POCUS
• Identify echo findings suggestive of heart failure in POCUS

Diuretic therapy in heart failure: what are the options?

• Identify common diuretics used in congestive heart failure
• Understand diuretic treatment strategies in acute and chronic heart failure (stage C)
• Discuss the rationale between using torasemide versus furosemide as first line diuretic treatment and in refractrory heart failure