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Small Animal Ultrasound

Equipment Sponsor
Sound-Eklin
Carlsbad, CA 92008
800•268•5354 Option 1
www.soundeklin.com

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Ultrasonography in veterinary practice will become as common as running a CBC! Make your investment in equipment worthwhile by understanding the full potential of this valuable service.

This course is designed for those practitioners who have never used an ultrasound machine before! It covers the essentials of practice-based ultrasound including primarily abdominal applications.

The format for this four day course is split 50-50 between lecture and small group hands-on wet labs.

PROGRAM FACULTY
Stephanie Nykamp DVM, Dip ACVR

Course Content
Synopsis

• Ultrasound procedures and technique for examination of the small animal patient
• Viewing the spleen, urinary tract (including kidney, bladder, prostate), reproductive organs, liver and GI tract
• Biopsy technique and other invasive ultrasound
• Gastrointestinal, Pancreatic, Adrenal, Thoracic, Lymph Nodes, Head and Neck, Tendon and Musculoskeletal Ultrasound

Agenda - Module 1

Lecture Titles
• Ultrasound Basics - The How and Why of Ultrasound
• Understanding Equipment and How to Purchase the Appropriate Equipment for the Small Animal Patient
• The How To of Ultrasounding the Small Animal Patient - Procedure Tomographic Anatomy of the Small Animal Patient
• Normal and Abnormal Hepatic Ultrasound" (including the biliary and the vascular structures - hepatic and portal veins of the liver)
• Normal and Abnormal Appearance of the Spleen with Ultrasound
• Ultrasound of the Normal and Abnormal Urinary Tract to include kidney, urinary bladder, prostate
• Ultrasound of the Uterus and Testicle
• Ultrasound of the Normal and Abnormal GI Tract
• Ultrasound Biopsy - The How and The Why

Agenda - Module 2

Lecture Titles
• Ultrasonography of the Gastrointestinal Tract
• Ultrasonography of the Pancreas
• Ultrasound: Stress Free Adrenal Ultrasound
• Ultrasonographic Appearance of Abdominal Lymph Nodes in the Dog
• Ultrasonography of the Head and Neck
• Non-Cardiac Thoracic Ultrasound
• Ultrasound Examination of Tendons, Muscles, and 28 Subcutaneous Tissues
• Invasive Ultrasound