Bovine Lung Ultrasound UK

13/08/2024

Next episode of "The new calf shed". It would have been ideal just to gradually fill with newborns. You the get a very healthy honeymoon period of new calves in a new shed , however no choice. Cross calves all in separate hutches and sold at 7-10 days.

06/08/2024

Here we have the cranial lobe of the right lung, the heart is beating behind it. You can see the entire lung lobe is consolidated and there is a significant degree of pleural effusion. This is severe with a poor prognosis even with treatment. Drop any comments or Questions below 👇
(thanks to Carolina Tejero for the video)

31/07/2024

Next calf shed update. Plenty of ventilation xtra high tunnel. Would have preferred single pens to be in the group pen and then removed washed and moved to next pen. Avoid choke points of single pens always in same place.

24/07/2024

Hopefully when your client decides to build some additional calf accommodation they ask you first. If they dont be sure to "stick your nose in" as you will have to deal with its success or failure.
Over the next couple of weeks we will follow this one through from the bare bones we see here to stocked and outcomes. What was my first success ? Convincing the client to use a concrete floor rather than the much cheaper crushed rock alternative. Why am I so keen on concrete when I should be saving the planet?

15/07/2024

MSD Animal Health have recently produced a new TUS guide with the help of vets Jimmy More, Beckie Harrison and Terri Ollivett. We often get feedback that vets find TUS a great technique but then struggle to turn it into a profitable practice service! If you would like a copy of the new guide, please contact your local MSD account manager or vet adviser, we can also do a practice Lunch and Learn training if required. Jimmy More Beckie Harrison Terri Ollivett

01/07/2024

Happy Birthday to our Co-Founder Jimmy! It’s been nearly 6 years since he came to me with another ‘hairbrained scheme’ to start doing TUS on his large dairy farms and the offering has gone from strength to strength with several published papers and posters along the way. A lovely client made him this scarily accurate cake. Hope you had a fab day!
Jimmy More

29/04/2024

If you ever wondered what Kat one of the site moderator looks like now you know. Looks like a interesting webinar.

25/04/2024

Had a great day on Monday. I was lucky enough to be invited to join Melissa Cantor,Assistant Professor Precision Dairy Science, Penn State. She was on farm in Yorkshire. Early days, but she is developing Artificial Intelligence to help early detection of pnemonia using data from Automated Milk Feeders. Her paper is a good place to start if your vision of AI consists of "Hal" from the movie 2001 Space odyssey https://www.journalofdairyscience.org/article/S0022-0302(23)00789-0/fulltext

13/04/2024

Been a while,Have you missed us?, but back again with a scan R side 24 day old hfx heifer. Treated 3 days ago AB&NSAI. Farmer cannot understand why its not improving. Suspect missed seeing it ill for a couple of days. Will it ever get better?

23/01/2024

More images of me using the doppler enabled scanner (Thank you for the loan IMV ).
So the first very colourful one is all pure artefact and is just too much movement and xs surface fluid. It goes away if you apply more pressure,
Second one much better no artefact bline and consolidation with fluid movement on plueral line and edge of consolidation. Does doppler add to TUS? More work required Jury still out.

16/01/2024

Sorry took a while recovering from a Scottish New Year celebration. I was out using the doppler on calf lungs, its not easy as you have to contend with all the surface fluid assosiated with the transducing agent . However here is a screen grab I thought was interesting. More to follow once I work on the videos. PS I also used it to look at bovine ovaries, much easier and very iluminating. Hopefully more on that topic to come with IMV imaging GB & Ireland

04/01/2024

Unwrapping my late Christmas present. Thank you IMV imaging GB & Ireland

24/12/2023

End of year and update on whats next. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

23/12/2023

The Elf got it all wrong. Wonder how it ends?

22/12/2023

Just getting the Christmas list sorted IMV imaging GB & Ireland

21/12/2023

The naughty elf knows best !!!!

20/12/2023

The naughty elf knows all the shortcuts!!!

19/12/2023

The naughty elf came down from the shelf to help out in the calf shed again this Christmas 🎄

08/12/2023

TUS training. A lot of our followers have been asking about training days. Many of you will have been to taster days, but I wondered if there was an appetite for some more intensive days. The idea is to limit the course to 5 participants. One free place to a local organiser, ie arrange the venue, enlist participants,equipment etc.
Not looking to make a profit. £1000 for the day. Let me know what you think or PM me.
PS I have spoken to the Elf and he has promised to come and help out later this month.

27/11/2023

Short video today. A trick to make them easier to watch is on your media player is to reduce the frame rate. Its an option down on the right. Slowing it down makes any scan easier to interpret or demonstrate to others. This one I need some help with. We are scanning on the right side caudal to the heart. You can see the heart to the right of the picture. To the left looks like complete lobular consolidation and I am not sure but it looks like the remnants of the bronchial tree. All inputs welcomed. As for the cliical picture, the calf showed a bit of increased resp. rate no cough.

21/11/2023

In case you missed the BCVA Congress could you humour me and have a look at some snapshots of a communication I co authored with Eamon Watson of National Milk Records. Yes I know its not strictly TUS.

15/11/2023

Lung scan right side 8 week old FXH heifer. Spontaneous cough NAD.
Right side cranial to the heart apical lobes
2 secs in consolidation
8 secs fluid centre to consolidation
16 secs fluid not visible still marked consolidation
19 secs pleural line broken B lines
23 secs occasional B lines more consolidation
25 secs caudal heart B lines
35 secs large area of diffuse consolidation
Naso Pharyngeal swab taken at the time showed typical BRD picture. A little bit of everything. But no one predominat agent. Likely more chronic case. When did it start and what did it start with?

13/11/2023

An intresting peice on transition milk use from our friend Prof. Ollivett. Not a concept I am familiar with. Note to self must keep up with the times

Dr. Terri Ollivett covers colostrum, transition milk, whole milk and more in this Professional Dairy Producers - PDPW Dairy Signal! https://mediasiteconnect.com/site/pdpw-dairy-signal/watch/416c74b3-4c23-4a11-7a43-08dbbb83b90e

10/11/2023

Fancy seeing your name in print. We are looking for some case studies on “How I rolled out TUS on my farms”. The purpose being to promote TUS to as wide an audience as possible. Don’t worry if you’ve never done this sort of thing before. We can help you create copy in a way that reflects what you are doing in a readable way. Think of it as a new branch to your career. Not every one creates peered reviewed papers from day one. We all have to start somewhere. So many great ideas come from practicing vets. Message us and we can arrange a chat. Even if you have a non TUS idea we are keen to help.
Photo of a brand new calf facility.

05/11/2023

Time flies. It seems more than a week since the end of BCVA Congress. Just to prove I did deliver a lecture. A few highlight slides. I think having Terri Ollivett as my warm up act gauranteed a good audience.

28/10/2023

So just a follow up to the TUS workshop at BCVA Congress. IMV were present and were able to assure us that there is no need to add additional wrapping to the probe when using Iso propyl alcohol 70% a the transducing agent. The same cannot be said however if you use surgical spirits. Just to clarify this is what we buy.

25/10/2023

Ian attended the lung scanning workshop at BCVA Congress. He was so keen to keep up the momentum he started scanning calves on Tuesday. He was kind enought to share a video. The positioning is right apical lobe i.e. cranial to the heart. We are looking at consolidation of the whole lobe , no A lines present. Well done Ian Academy Vets Stranraer.

23/10/2023

Home and recovering from a hectic BCVA Congress. I was delighted to be involved in the MSD lung scanning workshop. We were pleased Terri Olivett came to offer her support. I can not thank IMV enough for supplying scanners and technical advice (who knew you could do so many things with the ipad connection). Lots of happy smilling faces hopefully enthused to move forward with lung scanning in their own practices.