Veterinary point-of-care ultrasound for companion animal practice

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Veterinary point-of-care techniques are commonly used to rapidly identify a variety of life-threatening conditions. Due to their high sensitivity and specificity they have become indispensable tool to guide diagnosis and therapy in the emergency room and ICU, but also expanding to general practice. Through a series of case-based interactive webinars and practical, hands-on training, participants will learn and practice the basics of ultrasound exams, including normal findings in healthy dogs and cats.

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Description


Dates and location

Online material: Available from 6 November 2023
Workshop: Friday 8 December 2023
Location: Massey University, Palmerston North

Format

Participants will have access to recorded lectures to work through in their own time, prior to the workshop. At the workshop, participants will work in small groups across seven stations each focusing on a different region of the thorax, abdomen and heart.

Schedule [PDF]

To check out a short introduction from the tutors, click here.

Regions

  • Subxiphoid site
  • Umbilical and urinary bladder
  • Kidneys
  • Pneumothorax
  • Pleural effusion
  • Full lung
  • Cardiac

Learning objectives

  • Increase understanding of daily uses in ultrasound.
  • Improve your point-of-care ultrasound skills.
  • Learn five-minute techniques for scanning the thorax, abdomen and heart to diagnose conditions and direct further work-up and therapy.
  • Increase confidence in ultrasound diagnosis in a variety of conditions, including pleural space disease, abdominal effusion, alveolar interstitial pathology and basic cardiac pathology.
  • Feel confident in using focused assessment with sonography for trauma (FAST) techniques for the acute abdomen and trauma patients.

Learning outcomes

  • Rapidly identify underlying sonographically detectable conditions within five minutes of presentation to the hospital.
  • Increased confidence in choosing additional diagnostic tests and which treatments to implement.
  • Improved patient comfort and well-being.
  • Increased confidence for clients to make further decisions regarding their pets.

Tutors

Soren Boysen DVM, DACVECC

Soren graduated from the Western College of Veterinary medicine (WCVM), Saskatoon, Saskatchewan in 1996, worked in private practice for a year and then completed an internship at the Atlantic Veterinary College in Prince Edward Island. He spent a year as an emergency clinician in Chicago before completing a residency in small animal emergency/critical care at Tufts University in Massachusetts. He became a diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Emergency and Critical care in 2003 and worked at the University of Montreal veterinary teaching hospital from October 2003 to December 2008. Soren joined UCVM in January 2009. He is a Professor in small animal emergency and critical care in the Department of Veterinary Clinical and Diagnostic Sciences. His clinical home is predominantly based out of Western Veterinary Specialist and Emergency Centre, although he also contributes to student teaching and case consultation at the CARE Centre. He is actively involved in both the American and European veterinary emergency and critical care societies, as well as the Veterinary trauma initiative, serving on several committees for these organizations. He is an internationally recognized lecturer, speaking at numerous international conferences around the world. Although he is happy to speak on any small animal emergency and critical care topic his true passion lies within emergency point of care ultrasound, perfusions, hemorrhage and shock. Soren is also heavily integrated in teaching and learning within the UCVM program, teaching across all four years of the undergraduate program, as well as working with the interns and being a member of the Teaching Academy for the University of Calgary. He has received several teaching awards over the years for his contribution to higher education within the veterinary curriculum.

Serge Chalhoub BSc, DVM, DACVIM(SAIM)

Serge graduated from Bishop’s with a BSc. (Honours) in Biology in 1999. He then enrolled in the Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) program at the Faculté de médecine vétérinaire (FMV) of the Université de Montréal and completed the five-year program in 2004. Serge followed this with a one-year rotating small animal clinical internship at the same institution. After working for two years as a general practitioner and emergency veterinarian in Montreal, Serge pursued a residency in small animal internal medicine at the Animal Medical Center (AMC) in New York City. Once his residency completed in 2009 he stayed on at the AMC as their first renal/hemodialysis fellow and then as a staff doctor. Serge  has been a faculty member at the University of Calgary’s Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (UCVM) since 2012 and currently holds the rank of Associate Professor (Teaching). He was the recipient of the 2021 and 2013 Canadian Veterinary Medical Association’s Teacher of the Year Award, the 2015 University of Calgary Team Teacher of the Year Award, and the 2017 Carl J. Norden Distinguished Teacher Award (considered the most prestigious teaching award for a veterinary faculty member in North America). Serge is the coordinator of a community outreach-service learning program (UCVM-CUPS Pet Health Clinic) for disadvantaged Calgarians. He has authored and co-authored numerous scientific articles and book chapters on veterinary point of care ultrasound, renal and urinary medicine, and lectures around the world on these topics. He is a member of the National Issues Committee (NIC) of the CVMA and a Council Member for the Alberta Veterinary Medical Association.

Ivayla Yozova MVM, Dr.med.vet.MBA, AFHEA, Dipl.ACVECC, Dipl.ECVECC

Ivayla is a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care since 2017 and of the Euroean College of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care since 2019 after completing a residency at the Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Switzerland. During her residency she also completed a doctoral thesis on the topic of synthetic colloids in the same establishment. Ivayla graduated from the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at the Trakia University, Bulgaria, in 2007 after completing her senior year at the National Veterinary School of Nantes, France. This was followed by a Small Animals Internship at the National Veterinary School of Toulouse, France. Before starting her residency in 2013, Ivayla spent three years in a Small Animal Emergency and Critical Care private practice on the French Riviera. During this time, she also completed a Master of Business Administration (Institute of Business Administration, Nice, France) and an Inter-University Diploma in Pain Management (Medical Faculty, University of Montpellier, France).

Cost

NZVA member: $2050* | Non-member: $4100*

Access

This online component is available via VetScholar. NZVA members and current users enter their NZVA website log in details to access their courses once the material becomes available.

Contact

Shannon Leader
Events Manager
shannon.leader@vets.org.nz

Sponsors

This course is made possible by the support of NZVA's Diamond Partners.