Advanced Ultrasound

This course is suitable for you if you‘re a general practitioner who already has experience performing an abdominal ultrasound and would like to improve your skills at evaluating the more challenging abdominal structures and at performing ultrasound-guided sampling. You’ll also learn how to use ultrasound for the assessment of the thorax (except heart) and neck, increasing the range of applications of this imaging modality that you can offer your patients. This two day course will consist of a combination of lectures and several hands on practical sessions with the guidance of the course tutors.

What you’ll learn:

• Become more proficient at identifying adrenal glands and pancreas, familiarising yourself with the different anatomical landmarks used to find these small organs and being able to differentiate normal appearance from pathological changes
• Gain improved confidence on evaluating difficult areas like the pylorus and urinary bladder trigone
• Identification of the major abdominal lymph nodes using the adequate anatomical landmarks and being able to differentiate normal appearance from pathological changes affecting these structures
• Introduction to Doppler techniques and the identification of portosystemic shunts with ultrasound
• Decide which ultrasound-guided tissue sampling technique is indicated for your patient, and become confident at performing ultrasound-guided fine needle aspirates
• Become familiar with the normal appearance of lung and being able to identify thoracic wall, pleural, pulmonary and mediastinal disease using ultrasound
• Identification of thyroids, parathyroids and cranial neck lymph nodes and recognise the typical ultrasound appearance of common diseases that can affect these structures.

Course Tutor: Sergio Guilherme LMV MRCVS

This is a new course. Feedback from vets on Sergio Guilherme other practical courses for CPD Solutions:

“Thank you very much to Sergio and the demonstrators. High quality CPD, good mix of theory and practical.”

“The course was excellent, beyond expectations. The theory was very well synchronized with the practical sessions. Sergio is an amazing lecturer and I am looking forward to booking my next course.”

“Good lecture quality and mix of practical and lectures with a good amount of time spent on each.  Good US tutor : vet ratio.”

“Great balance of practical and lecture material. Very compliant dogs!! And very good having multiple tutors doing practical sessions to help and consolidate knowledge. Good facilities and excellent tutor.”

This course is kindly sponsored by Imotek