81 Technical aspects of ultrasonography

Veterinary Clinical Podcasts

Dominic Barfield

814108, Higher Education, Education, Medicine, Rvc, Science & Medicine, Veterinary, Science, Higher, Royal

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🗓️ 29 June 2018

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Back in Brian’s office as the studio was busy, different microphones though luckily a fabulous guest, Nell Fitzgerald, one of our lecturers in diagnostic imaging here at the RVC. We have a chat about the technical aspects of ultrasound and tips on how to get the best out of your machine if you are starting off, or if you are experienced but often wondered what those buttons are meant to do. We hope that you enjoy.

There are some ultrasound courses run through the RVC CPD (other course providers are available, though not sure that they would all be given a 5-star rating!)

https://www.rvc.ac.uk/study/cpd

Some papers of interest:

Lamb C, Boswood A Doppler ultrasound examination in dogs and cats

In Practice 2005;27:183-189.

Lamb C Doppler ultrasound examination in dogs and cats In Practice 2005;27:238-247.

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0:00.0	Good day, Dominic Barfield here and this is the RVC Clinical Podcast.
0:03.0	Thank you for listening and thank you for subscribing on your smartphone or generic fruit base device.
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0:15.0	Obviously a five-star review would be great and we'd appreciate if you could take a couple of minutes time to do this. Sadly, there's not really a lot of reviews recently that we can't tell you or read out.
0:26.6	But anyway, today, thankfully we've got Brian back.
0:30.6	We're in his office again using a bit of different equipment, so it might sound a bit strange.
0:36.6	But we're blessed to be joined by Neil Fitzgerald.
0:40.3	Thank you, Neil for coming in.
0:41.3	Now is one of our lectures in diagnostic imaging.
0:45.3	So, a rare thing now at universities to have time-nostic images, says...
0:50.3	We're a dying breed.
0:52.3	Too much tele-radiology going on.
0:54.7	But anyway, we'll move on from that.
0:58.3	So we thought, with your assistant,
1:01.8	we'll talk about the technical side of using ultrasound in practice.
1:05.5	Because you do a lot of continuing education and training bits.
1:10.0	And you say like common things come up with using your ultrasound and common ways or simple ways that we can make people better.
1:20.6	Yeah, and I think getting the most out of your machine, we're paying a lot of money for these machines now and they're getting better and better and the image quality is much better than it was maybe 10 years ago.
1:30.3	And I suppose the basic things that people forget, you know, if we start at the very, very beginning, you know, you get your animal in,icent about clipping. They must be clipped. We need a big area of clipping. We can't do this with hair and with gel and it's just going to be a mess.
1:49.0	And patient positioning, having some people there to hold your animal, make sure it's still, you're not trying to wrestle with them.
1:56.0	And equally, if it's feasible, then you have an animal that's healthy enough, just sedate it. It's going to be so much easier.
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