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Workshop Information
Designed to enhance both your knowledge and skills, this workshop comprises 8 hours of lectures and 4 hours of immersive hands-on wet lab sessions.
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The lectures will focus on essential concepts of veterinary point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS). POCUS techniques are designed to be rapid, easy to learn, and practical, suitable for any practitioner to incorporate into their daily practice. This co-lecture series will delve into core principles necessary to understand and interpret sonographic findings across abdominal, pleural space and lung ultrasound (PLUS), as well as cardiac and vascular POCUS. We'll cover all clinically relevant POCUS questions currently studied in veterinary medicine. Learn how to ask the right questions at the right time, in a binary fashion, based on patient assessment.
The Lab
This 4-hour lab, developed by leaders in the field of veterinary point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS), will build on the lectures which are a prerequisite to the lab. Through practical, hands-on training using live dogs participants will have the opportunity to learn and practise all of the common veterinary POCUS techniques currently used to assess the abdomen, pleural space, lung, and heart.
Phantom training models will also be used to demonstrate and practice ultrasound guided vascular access. This lab will focus on techniques developed by the instructors, designed to increase veterinary POCUS diagnostic accuracy, and help facilitate easier application into everyday veterinary practice. These are all techniques that can be performed by any practitioner and should be used in everyday practice! We will also briefly review basic ultrasound machine function and probe manipulations.
Itinerary for Lab
30 minutes Hands on intro, probe manipulation and machine function
3.5 hours Practical Sessions on Live Dogs & phantom models in Small Groups
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Cardiac Point of Care Ultrasound
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Abdominal Point of Care Ultrasound
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Pulmonary (Pleural/Lung) Point of Care Ultrasound
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Ultrasound-Guided Vascular Access Techniques
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Final Remarks and course wrap-up