Beyond FAST; Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS) for Everyday Practice!

Course overview

When something is visualized, the truth of its occurrence or existence can no longer be doubted, seeing is Believing. This proverb has particular meaning when it comes point of care ultrasound (POCUS); diagnostic confidence increases in 89.2 percent of patients when general practitioners add bedside POCUS to patient evaluation! In this half-day hands-on experience, you will learn to ask clinically relevant, often binary yes/no questions so that you can rapidly and efficiently utilize veterinary POCUS to make a difference in the daily assessment and management of your patients! Through practical, hands-on training using live dogs, participants will have the opportunity to learn and practice all 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 procedures, using a vascular access model. 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!