Workshops
We’d love to come to you institution and share our approach on how to become a Seldinger Master.
We teach a progression of increasingly advanced techniques, but developing the same skill-set. Depending on your goals and participants’ prior experience it could include:
- In-situ training to master the critical in-plane cannulation including the key moves “in-plane needling at an angle” and “lateral shift”
- In-plane central lines, oblique internal jugular
- In-plane central lines, subclavian
- The supraclavicular fossa view
- Seldinger-guided pleural effusion chest tubes
- Seldinger-guided pneumothorax chest tubes
- Seldinger-guided pericardial effusion drains
Participants are encouraged to see our Central Line Academy and relevant instruction videos. These can be found here or on our YouTube channel.
Teaching can include:
- A 20-minute lecture, ”Becoming a Seldinger Master”, followed by questions. A version of this can be seen HERE (link to be published shortly)
- A live demonstration of key ultrasound-moves on a volunteer using a composite camera/ultrasound feed
We hold workshops with 4-6 participants per teacher. We suggest 60-90 minutes depending on the ground to be covered. This requires two ultrasound machines with microconvex probes (preferably Philips C8-5/Sonosite C10-3/Mindray C11-3s/BK N13C5/GE 8C-RS). Cardiac and linear probes are also needed.
- We teach ultrasound moves on volunteer models
- We teach cannulation on a CentraLineman phantom and prererably on meat/rib models which offer very high fidelity.
- We can also be guided through your hospital to hold ad-hoc teaching sessions in different operating room/ICU areas
- If your clinical workflow allows, consenting patients are available and you have relevant senior sign-off, we can observe and coach clinicians placing central lines and chest tubes on actual patients
We leave the workshop participants with our on-line material, a simple guide “Roadmap to becoming a Seldinger Master” (TBA) and we’re always available by e-mail for follow-up questions.
It is a privilege to be invited to teach the techniques we think are so important for taking care of all our patients, but we do like to cover our expenses, including travel, lodging and some variant of our loss of wages.
We would like the extend a thank to the institutions who have hosted us:
February 2025
The Big Sick conference, Zermatt, Switzerland
University Hospital, Zürich, Switzerland
Stadtspital Triemli, Zürich, Switzerland
September 2024
SFAI (The Swedish Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine) national congress, Helsingborg, Sweden
February 2024
The Big Sick, Zermatt, Switzerland
University Hospital, Zürich, Switzerland
January 2024
Östersund hospital, 2-day workshop
September 2023
Helse Bergen, 2-day workshop, Lund, Sweden
UPCOMING WORKSHOPS
– Royal Brisbane & Women’s Hospital (RBWH), Brisbane, Australia
– SWAPNET/University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
– SFAI national congress, Norrköping, Sweden
