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Small Animal Echocardiography Practical Workshop – Core Skills

Name: Small Animal Echocardiography Practical Workshop – Core Skills
Start: 2022-09-08T00:00:00+10:00
End: 2022-09-08T23:59:59+10:00

September 8, 2022

BCF Ultrasound is proud to support Apex Cardiology’s Small Animal Echocardiography Practical Workshop – Core Skills.

This practical one day workshop will give you the confidence to bring echo skills to your practice.
The course focuses on the equipment and techniques needed to reliably obtain key echo views; and, importantly, how to interpret them to best help your cardiac patients.
Numbers are strictly limited to ensure plenty of individual coaching from Jacqui. Attendees will benefit from Massey Vet
School’s new teaching facilities and amenable dogs, along with a large ‘hands-on’ component.
Try out a variety of ultrasound machines/probes and learn which would be best for your practice.

Details:

Tutor: Jacqui Huxley, Vet Cardiologist
Date: 8th September 2022
Sponsor: Massey Vet School, Palmerston North
Cost: $1622 NZD (ex GST)

Topics include:

Equipment choice and set-up for basic small animal echocardiography.
How to obtain the core echo views of the dog/cat heart.
Analysis and interpretation of dog/cat echocardiograms.
Clinical application – how to use your echo study in the diagnosis and management of cardiorespiratory cases in small animal practice.
If interested/optional – Access a variety of ultrasound machines and probes, and ask BCF Ultrasound about the technical specifications – Products

Learning Objectives:

Understand relevant ultrasound physics and cardiac anatomy, to know how that applies to echocardiography in clinical practice.
Learn appropriate equipment choice, ultrasound machine settings, preparation, patient and probe positioning for echocardiography in dogs/cats.
Feel confident knowing how to reliably obtain right parasternal long and short axis echo views in dogs/cats
Understand B-Mode and M-Mode, when best to use them and their strengths/limitations.
Know how to interpret right parasternal long and short axis echo views in dogs/cats.
Understand the role of echo in primary practice.

Numbers are strictly limited to ensure plenty of individual coaching from Jacqui. Don’t miss out on your place in this great one day practical workshop!