GEN | Ultrasound guided intervention: practical workshop
Tracks
220 | Philips
| Friday, June 13, 2025 |
| 12:30 PM - 1:20 PM |
| 220 | Philips Life Healthcare |
Overview
Ms Paula King
Speaker
Ms Paula King
Sonographer
Royal Melbourne Hospital
Ultrasound guided intervention: practical workshop
Abstract
An introduction to ultrasound guided intervention: with a focus on Sonographer performed Thyroid FNA.
Paula King, Co Supervising Sonographer / Sonographer Clinician for SPTFNA Royal Melbourne Hospital Radiology Department.
This workshop will go through the steps we undertook to begin a program to credential sonographer practitioners to perform routine Thyroid FNA.s
Please come and join me for an introduction to the procedure, in particular Thyroid FNA. I will bring along many of my good friends, all know as Mr Chicken, some needles and some gloves and I guarantee a hands-on experience while we try to get some Olive and fetta on a slide.
Paula King, Co Supervising Sonographer / Sonographer Clinician for SPTFNA Royal Melbourne Hospital Radiology Department.
This workshop will go through the steps we undertook to begin a program to credential sonographer practitioners to perform routine Thyroid FNA.s
Please come and join me for an introduction to the procedure, in particular Thyroid FNA. I will bring along many of my good friends, all know as Mr Chicken, some needles and some gloves and I guarantee a hands-on experience while we try to get some Olive and fetta on a slide.
Biography
Ms Paula King |
Royal Melbourne Hospital
Co supervising sonographer at the Royal Melbourne Hospital Radiology Department. Paula has been an passionate sonographer for over 30yrs with extensive experience in Abdominal imaging. Her main interests include Contrast enhanced ultrasound, Renal transplantation, and Emergency department ultrasound.
She has a long term attachment to all things Breast and Neck, and recently has expanded her acute clinical skills in bowel and appendix ultrasound.
Paula loves to make new experiences in ultrasound, understandable and accessible to all.
