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Discover how point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) can enhance the monitoring and management of hospitalized veterinary patients. This session explores practical ultrasound techniques to assess fluid balance, guide treatment decisions, track disease progression, and detect complications early.
This lecture will review the utility of point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) in management of hospitalized patient. It will review common POCUS techniques (abdominal, pleural space and lung and cardiac POCUS) and how these techniques can help monitor fluid balance and optimise fluid therapy by monitoring ongoing fluid losses. How POCUS can be integrated into the daily assessment alongside daily physical examination and daily point-of-care blood tests can be used to monitor progression or resolution of the underlying disease as well as enable early detection of complications such as fluid overload and aspiration pneumonia will be discussed.
Dr. Laura Pearl Cole is a board-certified specialist in Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care and a Senior Lecturer at the Royal Veterinary College in London. She earned her veterinary degree from the University of Cambridge and completed her advanced clinical training and master's degree at the Royal Veterinary College.
With extensive experience in emergency and critical care medicine, Dr. Cole specializes in managing critically ill patients and advancing the use of point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) in veterinary practice. She chairs the Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care Ultrasound Interest Group and co-leads the RECOVER POCUS subdomain. Passionate about veterinary education, she regularly leads POCUS workshops at international conferences and mentors the next generation of veterinary professionals.