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Ultrasound, Pathology, and "Enhancing Diagnostic Efficiency"™ in Your Patients

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SPEAKER
Eric Lindquist DMV (Italy) Diplomate ABVP
(Canine and Feline Medicine 2003)
Manager Sound Technologies NJ Mobile Diagnostics

Education:
DMV University of Bologna (Italy) 1996, BS Zoology Humboldt State University, Arcata, Ca.

Origin:
Fullerton, California

Residence:
Sparta, NJ

Practice Experience:
Extensive soft tissue and orthopedic surgery and internal medicine in general practice 1997-1999 Lake Elsinore, CA. 1999-2001 Orange, CT. Mobile Imaging Specialist and Medical Consultant for Sound Technologies New Jersey Mobile 2001 to present.

Special Medical Interests:
Anything with an acoustic window. Soft tissue surgery. Cofounder of the Ultrasound Guided Endoscopic Laser Ablation (UGELAB) procedure for urinary bladder tumors presented at ACVIM 2007, 2008 and ECVIM 2007. Published reports regarding Thrombomodulin and feline cardiomyopathy, Echo parameters of feline cardiomyopathy. Pending: UGELAB update and publication.

Founder SonoPath.com:
Veterinary clinician’s website guide to sonographic pathology and diagnostic efficiency.
www.sonopath.com/resources_links_mobile

Author:
Clinical Approach to Veterinary Sonographic Pathology, Small Animals and Exotics. CD Atlas of Veterinary Atlas of Sonographic Pathology. Offered by SonoPath.com

Clinical Approach to Veterinary Sonographic Pathology
Canine, Feline and Exotics

• Great medicine means great business only when the medicine is efficient
• Dr. Lindquist’s specialty is Enhancing Diagnostic Efficiency™ by means of ultrasound and interpretation of sonographic pathology in your practice
• Learn the subtleties of what to look for in the sonographic presentation in your patient to refine your testing pathway and streamline the case direction
• When to sample, what to sample, how to sample, and what to expect based on the sonographic presentation
• Help yourself answer the question; “What does this?”
• Embrace the “48 hour rule” to getting the patient going in the right therapeutic direction
• Correct and efficient diagnostics mean better outcomes, happier and healthier patients, happier clients, and better business
• Clinical Approach to Sonographic Pathology; learn what it can do for you, your patient, and your practice

September 18/19

Gastrointestinal System

• Gastrointestinal structure
• Gastric lesions
• Small Intestinal lesions
• Mesenteric Root Pathology
• Colonic lesions
• Inflammatory bowel disease vs. infiltrative disease
• Obstructive criteria, foreign bodies, masses, focal dysfunction
• Sampling
• Case studies: radiographs and sonographic perspective

Spleen

• Splenic structure and position
• Uniform splenomegaly/hypersplenism
• Volume contraction
• Masses
• Nodules
• Sampling
• Case studies: radiographs and sonographic perspective

Adrenal Pathology

• Adrenal structure and position
• Bilateral enlargement
• Unilateral enlargement
• Hyperplasia
• Adenocarcinoma
• Pheochromocytoma
• Addisonian adrenals
• Sampling
• Case studies: Radiographs and sonographic perspective

Abdominal Pathology

• Working Through The Ascites cases through Sono-Pathological Reasoning
• Portal Hypertension
• Protein Losing Diseases
• Neoplasia
• Perforations
• Thrombosis
• Lymphadenopathy
• Carcinomatosis/Lymphomatosis

The Shunt Hunt

• The Traditional Story on bile Acids and Causes of Elevations
• The Traditional Shunt Hunt & Ultrasound
• Lindquist Approach To Simplify The Shunt Hunt

Special Organs

• The Eye, masses and retinal detachments
• Thyroid Normal & Pathology
• Parathyroid pathology
• Miscellaneous

Sampling The Pathology

• FNA/Cytology
• Biopsies/Pathology
• When and How To Target The Presentation To Optimize Accuracy and Diagnostic Efficiency
• When To Scope/ Laparoscopy/Surgical versus US-Guided Sampling
• The ADAIN (Abscess Drainage Antibiotic US-Guided Infiltration & Neuter) Procedure For Prostatic Abscesses
• Other Abscess Drainage & Infiltration Procedures
• Out-of–the-box Sampling
• The UGELAB (Ultrasound-Guided Endoscopic Laser Ablation) for Obstructive Urinary Masses

The Island Versus The Archepelago Theory To Occult Pathology

• Why Serum Markers Often Don’t Tell Us The Story Of Underlying Pathology