Date:

10 November 2025

Organizing Committee:

Dr. Albert Albay  (Postgraduate Course Director)
Dr. Ralph Elvi Villalobos (POCUS Postgraduate Course Chair)
Dr. Rioloida Diola (POCUS Postgraduate Course Co-chair)

Members:

Members of the PCCP Interventional Pulmonology Council

General Description:

Last November 10, 2025, the APSR Postgraduate Course Committee, in partnership with the Philippine College of Chest Physicians Council on Interventional Pulmonology, conducted a successful Postgraduate Course on Lung and Critical Care Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS). It was an 8-hour combined lecture and hands-on workshop for pre-registered APSR delegates, with focus on thoracic and lung POCUS in relation to the most common pulmonary/critical care pathologies encountered in the Asia Pacific Region.

Course Audience:

The course slots were filled from pre-registered delegates. The course was attended by 99 participants. The audience was a mix of practicing pulmonologists and critical care specialists, fellows-in-training, and general physicians.

General Objectives:

The following table summarizes the Course Programme, together with session objectives and the speakers/facilitators assigned.

Scientific Programme

Time	Activity	Objectives	Speaker
8:30-9:00AM	Registration	Registration	Postgraduate Committee Members
9:15-9:30AM	Introduction to the Course	Introduction to the course including objectives, course outline, breakout sessions, groupings, and course evaluation	Dr. Ralph Elvi Villalobos and Dr. Rio Diola
9:30AM-10:00AM	General Principles of Chest Point of Care Ultrasound	Give a brief history of chest ultrasound and early applications in practiceIntroduce the mechanisms and physics of ultrasoundFamiliarize with the basic technical aspects of ultrasound – knobs, controls, probes, modes, and settingsIdentify indications for chest POCUS, and present current evidence on the use of ultrasound in pulmonary patientsDescribe proper patient identification, preparation, and performance of chest ultrasound	Dr. Nai-Chien Huan   (Queen Elizabeth Hospital Kota Kinabalu Malaysia)
10:00-10:30AM	The Chest Ultrasound Syndromes: How to recognize and approach a patient with respiratory complaints	Give a brief introduction on the basic lung ultrasound syndromes/ protocols (pneumothorax protocol, consolidation, pulmonary edema, atelectasis, pleural effusion, and ARDS)Present actual and practical examples of how to identify and differentiate these syndromes based on POCUS Present current evidence and applicable clinical guidelines applicable to these different ultrasound scenarios	Dr. Yao Wen Kuo   (National Taiwan University)
10:30-11:00AM	Basic Critical Care Ultrasound Part 1: Cardiac and Vascular POCUS	Give an introduction to  rapid bedside cardiac ultrasound to evaluate a patient with potential cardiac pathology (focus on critically ill patients)Describe practical ultrasound approaches to the most common vascular pathologies in the critical care setting (venous thrombosis and vascular occlusion)Present current evidence in the performance of cardiac/vascular ultrasound and its inclusion in clinical guidelinesDemonstrate step by step approaches to the performance of these bedside ultrasound techniques (cardiac/vascular ultrasound), including the interpretation of ultrasound findings	Dr. Jose Donato Magno Chairman, ASEAN Society of Echocardiography, Philippine Heart Association
11:00-11:30AM	Basic Critical Care Ultrasound Part 2: Hemodynamic Assessment	Present the most common and most important applications of ultrasound in hemodynamic assessmentGive an update of current evidences and guidelines pertaining to ultrasound in the critically illDemonstrate the proper technique of various ultrasound hemodynamic monitoring parameters, including its interpretation and clinical implications	Dr. Marie Charisma Laborte   Lung Center of the Philippines/University of Toronto
11:30-12:00PM	Introduction to Ultrasound-guided pulmonary procedures (Chest drain insertion and pleural biopsy)	Give an in-depth discussion of different pleural pathologies i.e. pleural effusion, pleural thickening, pulmonary masses (focus on ultrasound description and interpretation)Describe different pleural and pulmonary interventions aided by ultrasound, vis-à-vis the current evidence and guidelines regarding their safety and efficacyIllustrate and demonstrate the proper steps in performing the two most common ultrasound-aided procedures of chest drain insertion and pleural biopsy	Dr. Nai-Chien Huan
12:00-1:00PM	LUNCH
1:00-4:00 PM	Stations: A. Basic Chest Ultrasound Operation (Knobology, Patient Selection, Patient Positioning, Basic Lung Scanning) B. Basic Cardiac and Vascular POCUS C. Ultrasound Hemodynamic Assessment in Critically Ill patients D. Chest Drain Insertion for Pneumothorax/Pleural Effusion (2 stations)	Each station will consist of the following:   Brief review and refresher of the theoretical principles for each station (as described in the morning session)Facilitator demonstration of the principles involved in the specific ultrasound station (including ultrasound set-up, mode/probe selection, patient positioning, identification of important structures, and interpretation of results)One-on-one return demonstration by the participant of the principles discussed for the particular stationFeedback by facilitator on the strengths, and point of improvement   ***Station A, B and C will utilize a healthy volunteer while Station D will be using a lung model   Duration: 1 hour each station 20 minutes for the mini-lecture and 40 minutes for the hands-on demonstration and return demonstration	Facilitators from the IP Council of PCCP (10 stations total (2 sets, 5 stations each) 　 Overall In-Charge: Dr. Kit Medina and Dr. Rio Diola   Basic Lung Ultrasound Station: Dr. John Noel Chan Dr. Joven Roque Gonong Basic Cardiac POCUS Dr. Arthur Bagadiong Dr. Sherry Mae Mondido-Montemayor Vascular and Critical　Care POCUS (DVT, Hemodynamic Assessment) Dr. Cham Laborte Dr. Julie Visperas   Pleural POCUS and Pleural Interventions Dr. Richard Arthur Villaluna / Dr. Blake Warren Ang Dr. Nai Chien Huan
4:00PM	Course Evaluation and Feedback