Focused Ultrasound Techniques for the Small Animal Practitioner
By Gregory R. Lisciandro
Focused Ultrasound Techniques for the Small Animal Practitioner PDF offers a highly practical guide to incorporating abbreviated ultrasound exams into the veterinary practice. Focused point-of-care exams are an effective way to quickly detect conditions and complications not readily apparent through the physical exam, laboratory diagnostics, or radiographic findings. Encompassing all the information needed to begin performing these techniques, Focused Ultrasound Techniques for the Small Animal Practitioner is a useful tool for improving patient outcomes in clinical practice.Covering focused exams in all body systems, the book also outlines the principles of interventional radiology, medical documentation, and the basic fundamentals of using an ultrasound machine. A companion website offers 87 video clips of AFAST, TFAST, and Vet Blue examinations with normal, abnormal, and incidental findings. Focused Ultrasound Techniques for the Small Animal Practitioner is an essential purchase for veterinary practitioners and specialists wanting to implement these techniques in their veterinary practice.
Provides all the information needed to begin using focused point-of-care exams as a patient diagnostic screening and monitoring tool for trauma, triage, and tracking
Describes the essentials of performing and incorporating the abdominal FAST (AFAST), thoracic FAST (TFAST), and Vet Blue lung ultrasound exams into your practice
Emphasizes how FAST exams serve as a platform for developing necessary ultrasound skills for the additional focused exams in other organs covered in the book
Improves patient outcomes by aiding in the detection of conditions and complications not apparent through the physical exam, laboratory diagnostics, or radiographic findings
Written by the foremost experts in the use of focused exams in veterinary patients
Table of Contents
Contributors ix
Acknowledgements x
Introduction xi Gregory R. Lisciandro
About the Companion Website xiv
1 Focused—Basic Ultrasound Principles and Artifacts 1 Robert M. Fulton
2 The Abdominal FAST3 (AFAST3) Exam 17 Gregory R. Lisciandro
3 Focused or COAST3—Liver and Gallbladder 44 Stephanie Lisciandro
4 Focused or COAST3—Spleen 65 Stephanie Lisciandro
5 Focused or COAST3—Kidneys 80 Stephanie Lisciandro
6 Focused or COAST3—Urinary Bladder 99 Stephanie Lisciandro
7 Focused or COAST3—Gastrointestinal and Pancreas 110 Søren Boysen and Jennifer Gambino
8 Focused or COAST3—Reproductive 126 Robert M. Fulton
9 The Thoracic FAST3 (TFAST3) Exam 140 Gregory R. Lisciandro
10 The Vet BLUE Lung Scan 166 Gregory R. Lisciandro
11 Focused or COAST3—Echo (Heart) 189 Teresa DeFrancesco
12 Focused or COAST3—Central Venous and Arterial Line Placement, Big Arteries, and Veins 206 Scott Chamberlin
13 Focused or COAST3—Pediatrics 222 Autumn P. Davidson and Tomas W. Baker
14 Focused or COAST3—Eye 243 Jane Cho
15 Focused or COAST3—Musculoskeletal 261 Gregory R. Lisciandro
16 Focused or COAST3—Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR), Global FAST (GFAST3), and the FAST-ABCDE Exam 269 Gregory R. Lisciandro and Andrea Armenise
