Insights & News

What happens after I sign up?

Once you sign up to the Animal Ultrasound Association, you will receive your membership card within two weeks. This will display your unique membership number, which allows people to verify you

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How to get the most out of social media

The AUA has its own dedicated Facebook group, for advanced pregnancy scanners. People who are learning animal ultrasound scanning for the first time will often join the VIS Facebook group, designed

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Prediction of Gestational Age in Goats

Modern research on the accuracy of gestational age calculations for goats is scarce, but one paper from 2011 compares three different methods in Saanen goats. In this research by Abdelghafar

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Ultrasound as a treatment

Ultrasound is one of the most rapidly evolving technologies in the world of human and veterinary medicine. What began as a diagnostic imaging modality only, began to be adapted for therapeutic

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Assessing the prostate with ultrasound

Prostate scanning for the purpose of diagnosis or treatment can only be performed by a veterinarian. However, a number of experienced scanners do check their own animals (never take the

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AUA Mission Statement

Below is the AUA’s proposal to the Regulator, submitted April 2016, to become a Community Interest Company (approval granted May, 2016).   SECTION A: The company’s activities will provide benefit

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The value of ongoing training

At this year’s Hammersmith Echocardiography Conference, Professor Petros Nihoyannopoulos (Imperial College, London) spoke of the importance of cooperation and open discussion between sonographers (in this case, echocardiographers), and the pitfalls

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Ultrasound Equipment and the Law

As discussed in previous articles, ultrasound is very safe. The biggest danger in its operation is almost certainly that which is common to all electrical devices: electrical safety, trip hazards,

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Mechanical & Thermal Indices

We know that ultrasound deposits energy into tissue in two ways: • Vibration • Heat. Due to the fact that tissue is being affected in these ways, the potential for damage exists,

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