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Joining Brian and myself in the virtual studio, we're going to talk to Dr. Laura Cole, one of our lecturers here in emergency and critical care at the Royal Vet College. Laura, thank you very much for

joining us. Oh, it's great to be here. And what we thought we were going to talk about is

revisit something we touched on a couple of years ago and the podcast, but the point of care ultrasound, because it's one of your passions and also something you've recently published on that we'll probably get to get to that at a at some point as well so

so maybe I could first ask about the use of sort of point of care ultrasound in the

emergency so there's this sort of a variety of different protocols that have been

sort of developed for using point of care ultrasound, particularly with the lungs.

Do you want to sort of expand upon that, please?

Yeah, sure.

So I think that point of care ultrasound, particularly point of care thoracic ultrasound,

really has it kind of expanded in kind of, yeah, I think the last 10, even more, in five years,

the literature that's out there, you know, more and more studies reporting kind of different

protocols and kind of different findings and utilities of point of care ultrasound. And I think

that it's, the protocols, it's important to be aware of them because,

you know, we all like to, you know, follow protocols. You know, we have our kind of various

manuals that tell us step by step how to do things. And the kind of different protocols, I think,

will vary depending on your like institution. And so one's just to kind of,

like, you know, come to the full front of my mind. You know, the original was the kind of T-FAST.

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