GP Vet Ultrasound

09/10/2024

Did you get it right?!
This is the strangest looking bladder stone I have ever seen. 😳

✅Note that you don’t need to have seen every single type of bladder stone to be able to diagnose on ultrasound.

✅While you can see clearly the strange projections, you can also see the distal acoustic shadowing that is evident.

✅This stone was mobile and not attached so was always on the dependent side.

Happy scanning!

08/10/2024

Panting means that image quality is poor and you can’t see organs or pathology properly 🔍! In the same way that movement blur makes radiographs difficult or even impossible to interpret 🩻, it’s the same with ultrasound.

Of course patient factors will determine the safety of sedation and the sedatives used 🩺💉 but don’t set yourself up for failure by trying to diagnose on a patient that’s panting like this.

Be kind to yourself and to your patient. Sedate

05/07/2024

Foreign body in the upper GI - proximal duodenum just past the pylorus.

05/07/2024

Happy Friday!
And of course it's Foreign Body Friday.
Old dog presented for vomiting 🤮 for 2 days. Blood💉💉 tests were unremarkable.
Radiographs 🩻 revealed a gas distended stomach and no obvious foreign body but scary looking duodenum dorsally. We were worried this was a GDV 😲😳

Ultrasound however revealed an upper GI Foreign body

Quick tip on scanning to find the pylorus of a gas filled stomach?

➡ Scan in right lateral recumbency with your probe underneath the patient. This eliminates the "dirty shadowing" you get with gas on ultrasound obscuring your view.

Patient went to surgery and a bone 🦴 was stuck at the proximal duodenum.

28/06/2024

28/06/2024

NEW WEEKLY POST- of the weird stuff our patients end up eating and how to find them on ultrasound.
Patient is a young cavoodle vomiting for 10 days on and off (!) 🤮 and just refusing to eat.
Clinically exam - Reasonably bright and alert, no obvious pain, nothing exciting on bloods or plain radiographs 🩻 Ultrasound showed a foreign body - in the jejunum.
Note this one DOES have the classic hyperechoic interface and distal acoustic shadowing of foreign material but notice on BOTH sides of the foreign body the intestinal wall is the same thickness and no fluid buildup noted oral to the foreign object.
This is a partial obstruction - fluid and gas can pass through.
What is the foreign body?
Check back tomorrow to find out 😎

24/06/2024

What is it about my ultrasound bag that cats love so much? 😎

Here is Buttercup enjoying sleep mode

24/04/2024

Reason I am running late for my next scan: clinic cat sleeping on my ultrasound case and of course I couldn’t disturb him!

19/01/2024

Gift from an awesome vet nurse 😍

29/12/2023

For any of my international followers who forget that December in the Southern Hemisphere is peak SUMMERTIME. 40 deg Celcius = 104F 🥵🥵