Ultrasound
Ultrasound is one of the most important tools in vet medicine diagnostics. It is a completely non-invasive, painless technology which uses high-frequency sound waves to produce real-time images. It allows veterinarians to assess inner organs of the abdominal cavity, the heart, the thyroid gland and even structures on the body surface.
Ultrasound shows the inner structure of organs including blood supply via colour flow Doppler. It also enables us to evaluate cardiac function and cardiac disease.
Ultrasound
If any changes are detected, it may be useful to take samples via Fine Needle Aspiration (FNA) or to take ultrasound guided biopsies. This often makes surgery unnecessary or helps with pre-operative decision making and planning.
As a diagnostic medical sonographer, you are the one answering a host of life-changing medical questions with the help of ultrasound technology and you play a vital role in ensuring a proper diagnosis. This means it is crucial that the sonographer not only has the knowledge and technical skills to produce the best sonographic images and to carry out diagnostic procedures but furthermore has the experience to interpret the ultrasound images.
The quality of an ultrasound exam stands and falls with the theoretical training, laboratory practice and extensive clinical experience of the ultrasonographer.
