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Ultrasound for Guided Venous Access

By |2025-11-13T06:10:52-06:00March 25, 2022|Course Information, Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS)|

While any visit to the hospital looks different, depending on the patient and their needs, a pretty common procedure done is the placement of an intravenous catheter to provide fluids, medicine, or both. These are so common in fact, that somewhere between 150 to 200 million are placed every year in the United States, according to Presley and Isenberg. Maverick Medical Education knows there are a growing number of uses of point of care ultrasound (POCUS) and the correct placement of these lines is one of them.

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Step-by-Step Guide to a Cardiac Ultrasound

By |2025-11-13T06:28:52-06:00March 15, 2022|Course Information, Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS)|

While ultrasound is frequently associated with obstetrics and monitoring mothers and babies throughout pregnancy, ultrasound technology is becoming more and more applicable to other fields of medicine as well. As more applications are discovered and utilized, learning Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) at a Maverick Medical Education course will allow you to better serve your communities, in whatever setting you find yourself.

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How to Do an eFast Ultrasound Exam

By |2025-11-10T13:16:02-06:00February 28, 2022|Course Information, Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS)|

Once a medical provider has been trained on Point of Care Ultrasound, the insight they can provide to their patients extends to multiple fields. From field trauma to pediatrics to emergency care, POCUS is a quick way to evaluate the care and procedures your patients might need while also allowing for continued evaluation depending on the issues at hand. The applications for POCUS are numerous and Maverick Medical Education is providing continued education for how POCUS is beneficial for you to become proficient at. One of these new applications is in performing eFast exams.

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Tips for Perfecting Ultrasound-Guided Regional Anesthesia

By |2025-11-10T11:33:23-06:00February 28, 2022|Course Information, Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS)|

Maverick Medical Education’s courses are deliberately thought out to provide the best education for those who enroll with us. The flipped classroom model that gives lecture instruction ahead of time, through modules accessible from any internet connected device, primes the lab time where students will get hands-on training from our esteemed Maverick Instructors. Perfecting these skills takes time and our instructors are passionate about passing their knowledge and training to each new course.

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Occipital Nerve Block: Procedure, Benefits, and Side Effects

By |2025-11-13T06:19:46-06:00January 27, 2022|Pain Management|

Too many of our population suffer with chronic migraines with little to no relief. While there are some home remedies that can ease the pain that comes with some headaches, it is worth considering an occipital nerve block for patients who are suffering from regular and persistent pain. The occipital nerve block is not only easy to learn in our Maverick Medical Education courses, but easy to administer to patients who are in need of relief.

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Why You Should Choose Maverick Medical Education

By |2025-11-13T06:30:52-06:00January 24, 2022|Course Information|

Maverick Medical Education is focused on helping medical providers learn advanced techniques to better serve their patients and communities with pain management and point of care ultrasound. Our fine-tuned education practices are intentionally chosen to ensure maximum delivery of our knowledge and skill set. We are confident that our students walk away from our courses able to put the skills learned in practice on their very next day at work.

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Improving Analgesia with Regional Anesthesia

By |2026-04-23T09:32:37-05:00December 15, 2021|Course Information, Regional Anesthesia|

Breast cancer, unfortunately, is more prevalent and impacting more women every year. While every patient will choose, with their medical team, a different course of action for treatment, many are choosing a surgical option to reduce the risk of future issues. With this emotional decision comes a number of concerns, including the typical post-surgical pain concerns. Maverick Medical Education teaches courses that help provide pain treatment and reduction for patients of all types and has seen an improvement in analgesia with the use of regional anesthesia.

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Pulsatile Cadavers: How it Works

By |2025-11-10T11:11:29-06:00December 9, 2021|Course Information, Pulsative Cadavers|

While there are certain medical procedures we can use patients for, in order to gain experience and to train different methods, there are many scenarios where it simply wouldn’t be appropriate. This is especially the case in Maverick Medical Education courses where repetition, when administering anesthesia and performing nerve blocks, is key to proficiency. It simply wouldn’t be safe for a patient to undergo. For this reason, our training courses use pulsatile cadavers.

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Regional Anesthesia’s Impact on Cancer Survival

By |2025-11-14T09:00:11-06:00December 7, 2021|Course Information, Regional Anesthesia|

Anesthesia techniques extend far beyond the obvious of numbing an area to pain in order for a medical procedure to take place for the patient. From pre and post-operative care to assisting in healing long term there are a number of ways that anesthesia can benefit patients facing a number of medical concerns. There is a growing amount of research that shows regional anesthesia can have a positive impact on, not only care for cancer treatment patients, but on survival rates as well.

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How to Effectively Triage with POCUS

By |2022-08-30T18:53:18-05:00December 6, 2021|Course Information, Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS)|

The use of point of care ultrasound in many medical settings is becoming clearer to practitioners and patients every day. While Maverick Medical Education has addressed the utility of POCUS on COVID-19 triage, the benefits extend far beyond helping teams determine care for those who have contracted this virus. POCUS can be used to improve patient outcomes and triage for their care no matter what they suspect their illness or injury may be.

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