SA113P - Veterinary Point-of-care Ultrasound for Everyday Practice I: How to Ultrasound the Pleural Space & Lung

Ever struggle with determining the cause of dyspnea in a cat that is too unstable to take radiographs or draw blood for ProBNP levels (cardiac, respiratory, pleural effusion)? Ever debate if you should discontinue IV fluids in the patient with mild tachypnea? Have you ever felt frustration at not finding a cause for patients presenting for “ain’t doing right” with no specific clinical signs? Veterinary point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) can help you manage these patients! Using a binary approach to ask the right question at the right time makes learning and applying pleural space and lung ultrasound easy! Veterinary POCUS techniques are rapid, easy-to-learn and practical ultrasound skills that ANY practitioner can apply in everyday practice. This interactive, banter filled co-lecture (by an internist and a criticalist that rarely agree on anything) will cover the core principles to understand and interpret sonographic findings of the pleural space and lung. Following a binary approach, the key principles of the bat sign, gator sign, glide sign, A lines, B lines, lung pulse, and curtain sign, dry lung and wet lung will be covered: These are all things that can be used by general practitioners in everyday practice. If you own an ultrasound machine, there is no excuse to not apply these principles on a daily basis! Part 1 of 4: