National Acute Critical Event Simulation Course 2026

About theCourse  

Expert faculty will provide you with first-class support to help you build skills in bedside ultrasound to help recognize and intervene on various states of critical illness.

The overall learning objectives for this event are to provide advanced practitioners (post-graduate trainees and faculty) with specific ultrasound skills to both perform and interpret at the point-of-care in a critically ill patient. With this in mind, our objectives are specifically focused on cardio-respiratory applications of point-of-care ultrasound.

Broadly speaking, at the end of this workshop, participants will be able to: 

1. Perform and interpret advanced techniques in cardiac ultrasound, along with lung ultrasound, to assist investigation of severely ill patients (medical expert, communicator, collaborator, health advocate, scholar, professional).
2. Clinically integrate heart and lung findings, along with clinical details, to assemble a coherent clinical assessment (medical expert, communicator, collaborator, health advocate, scholar, professional). 

At the conclusion of this course, learners should be able to:

• Perform a critical care echo to assess the key cardiac structures to identify and characterize an array of life-threatening conditions including pericardial tamponade, LV failure, RV failure, pulmonary hypertension and complications of venous thromboembolism etc.

• Integrate colour and spectral Doppler assessment to identify and characterize a range of life-threatening conditions including ventricular failure, cor pulmonale, dynamic obstruction, and gross valvular diseases.

• Clinically integrate cardiac ultrasound findings to aid in diagnosis and management of life-threatening illnesses in the acutely unwell patient.

Why Should I Attend?

N-ACES welcomes critical care trainees from the 13 adult critical care programs in Canada as an introductory preparatory largely simulation-based experience. This annual course is an excellent opportunity for residents to network and meet their colleagues from across the country. A shared start to their training will help foster lifelong friendships and collaborations. The goal of N-ACES is to rapidly upgrade the trainees’ knowledge and skills in the early management of critically ill patients. The course will maintain its small group learning approach using multiple modes of instruction, including a high proportion of experiential learning through a variety of simulation modalities (e.g. facilitated case scenarios, phone simulation, etc.) and interactive group sessions with expert critical care faculty.

Pricing

*All rates subject to HST.

Cancellation Policy

Cancellations will only be accepted on or before June 24, 2026. Please note there is a 10% administration fee applied to all cancellations. No credits or refunds will be given for cancellations received after June 24, 2026.

Event Terms & Conditions

• No liability is assumed by the CCCS for changes in program dates, content, or speakers, cancellation of the event, and/or technical difficulties.
• Any form of recording the sessions is strictly prohibited.
• You are expressly restricted from all of the following:
• • Publishing any material in any media;
  • Selling, sublicensing, and/or otherwise commercializing any material.