Description
Triage!!! A cat presents with respiratory distress. It’s too unstable to transport and restrain for thoracic radiographs or to obtain a blood sample for proBNP testing. How do we stabilise the cat?!? Do we give dexamethasone, furosemide or perform thoracentesis? Introducing handheld ultrasound in the triage and management of feline respiratory distress. This lecture, delivered by an ECC specialist and internal medicine specialist will present a case of feline respiratory distress to demonstrate how point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) can be used and applied in seconds to minutes to direct therapy and further diagnostics. The application of pleural and lung ultrasound (PLUS) as an arm of POCUS is simple to learn, can be applied in seconds, and is easy to apply in everyday practice.
Kindly sponsored by Butterfly Network.
Further Reading with Vetlexicon:
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