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Session

Day 1

23rd March

Day 2

24h March

10:00 -11:00

Introduction to VFS procedures

 

 

Compensatory postural strategies and techniques

 

11:00 -11:15

Coffee

Coffee

11:15 -12:30

Applied anatomy and physiology

 

Introduction to image reporting:

proformas and scales

 

12:30 - 13:15

Lunch

Lunch

13.15 - 14:30

Applied fluoroscopy science and technology

 

VFS international, national and local guidelines

 

14:30 -14:45

Coffee

Coffee

14:45 -15:45

How does the underpinning diagnosis affect your VFS decision making?

Implementing and auditing a Practitioner-led VFS service

15:45 - 16.30

Image viewing

 

 

Course quiz and evaluation

 

 

Introduction to Videofluoroscopy IIRRT/IASLT

Course Facilitators:

Professor Julie Nightingale, Professor of Diagnostic Imaging Education, Sheffield Hallam University, UK

Dr Elizabeth Boaden, Fellow of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists, Consultant Dysphagia SLT, Senior Research Fellow, University of Central Lancashire, UK