Who should teach ultrasound? On almost a daily basis, the Animal Ultrasound Association receives membership enquiries from enthusiastic, recently trained individuals who believe that the training they have undertaken enables them to join a...
Browsing through some of the most popular ways people come across the Animal Ultrasound Association, I noticed that one of the most frequently Googled questions in the context of canine scanning is “how often...
As tempting as it may be to turn your training and ultrasound machine to use on pregnant humans, unless you have registered as a provider with the Care Quality Commission (CQC), offering this as...
A puppy was referred for echocardiography for suspicion of a PDA, due to a grade six heart murmur. We actually found severe pulmonary stenosis, and you can follow the story of this case in...
It is important to realise that there is no official qualification available to lay scanners in animal pregnancy scanning. This did not used to be a huge problem, but in a post-Trump world where...
It’s no secret that the animal scanning industry has been infiltrated by rogue elements over the last few years. The Animal Ultrasound Association has led the fight against unethical, poor quality ultrasound training practices...
Continued Professional Development – CPD – has two main purposes. (1) It demonstrates that the course you are attending has been properly structured. (2) It awards you CPD points. The first point is important,...
I’ve seen quite a few cases recently where very competent scanning professionals within our community have found something that doesn’t look right, referred it to the vet as they should, only for the vet...
Webinar replay from last year’s “top tips to success.”
Most veterinary ultrasound machines come with gestational age calculation packages inbuilt. Within any one species, however, results are not universally accurate across all breeds. There can be huge breed variation, with some species (e.g....
