Ultrasound can be intimidating when starting out in school, especially if you’re like me and had no previous experience with it. In my first-year, we talked about it fairly briefly in our introduction to radiology class. In anatomy, we took several trips down to the large animal hospital where we had a short amount of […]
Working Up Weight Loss
Unexplained weight loss is frustrating for owners and veterinarians alike, in addition to being life-threatening for the patients it affects. Recently, two middle-aged pot-bellied pigs from the same herd were presented to the clinic for severe weight loss that had been happening for about two months, despite proper deworming and increased feed rations. Weight loss […]
Imaging
There are many imaging techniques in veterinary medicine and the most commonly used ones are radiography and ultrasonography. I just finished the ultrasonography rotation not long ago. Like many other rotations, in addition to learning what is expected, I also got something unexpected but super useful in this rotation. Ultrasonography is a very busy service. […]
