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Companion Animal Pregnancy Scanning

  • Detect pregnancy in both cats and dogs
  • Ongoing expert support and lifetime course access
  • Learn from a certified sonographer with over a decade of experience
  • In-depth understanding of your ultrasound equipment
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  • 🔍 Develop competence in small animal pregnancy scanning
  • 📘 Learn with clear, clinically relevant diagrams and explanations
  • 🔧 Build foundational skills in transabdominal ultrasound
  • 🎓 Earn your Animal Ultrasound Association (AUA) Certification

No ultrasound machine? No problem!

You are not required to own an ultrasound machine to enrol. In fact, we recommend delaying any purchase until after completing this course. You’ll have the opportunity to evaluate different models and scanning systems through real-world demonstrations and practical insight from experienced sonographers — helping you make an informed investment when the time is right.
 
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Module Structure:

Introduction

Module 1

  • Ultrasound appearances

Module 2

  • Fundamentals of transducer operation

Module 3

  • Essential controls and settings, feline pregnancy scan walkthrough

Module 4

  • Key landmark identification

Module 5

  • Understanding imaging planes

Module 6

  • Pregnancy scanning essentials, foetal heart rate calculation, gestational age calculation, litter size estimation, head diameter measurements in cats vs dogs

Module 7

  • Ultrasound safety and biohazards

Module 8

  • Advanced control techniques, certificate completion process

Bonus Content

  • Exploring Colour Doppler, identifying fluid-filled uterus and checking foetal viability

Revision Module 1

  • An essential refresher of what you've learnt so far

Revision Module 2

  • When you identify the fluid-filled uterus on ultrasound, it is important not to jump to confirming pregnancy before you have checked for foetal viability. In this short revision module, I will walk you through two examples where things may not be quite what they seem at first glance.

Revision Module 3

  • Clinical specialist obstetric sonographer, Yvette Lovis, walks you through a pregnancy scan on a Maine Coon - with a surprising finding.

Revision Module 4

  • It is not advisable to scan for a client before 30 days gestation, but there are times in your career where this might happen for various reasons. For example, the client might have their dates wrong, or you might even be scanning your own pet. In this revision video, you will see what very early gestation in a dog looks like on ultrasound.

🔓✨ PLUS- Bonus Content for Veterinary Professionals 🔓✨

  • We will discuss and walk through cases from real patients in clinical practice, making it strictly for veterinarians, vet nurses and vet techs only.
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Course leader: Catherine Stowell

Catherine has been teaching ultrasound to veterinarians, vet techs and breeders worldwide since 2010.

She has a Masters degree in Medical Ultrasound, and is currently working on her PhD in the teaching and learning of ultrasound at Imperial College, London.

She has published numerous ultrasound research papers, and is the author of best-selling book, ‘Ultrasound for Canine Pregnancy Scanning.’

If you have any questions about the training program and your suitability for it, please contact us!

 

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