Ultrasound Book Review: Abdominal Ultrasound for Dogs and Cats

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About Camilla...

Dr Camilla Edwards, a peripatetic veterinary ultrasonographer in Cambridge, founded FOVU First Opinion Veterinary Ultrasound in 2018 after earning her veterinary degree in 2006. Camilla's veterinary ultrasound expertise is widely recognised through her

numerous lectures, ultrasound machine reviews, podcasts, online courses, and exclusive membership to help veterinary professionals master and confidently use ultrasound.

Author: Adriana Meirelles and Paulo Aguillera

Abdominal Ultrasound for Dogs and Cats: An Illustrated Reference Value Guide

Overview:

When I’ve been teaching courses the most common questions I get asked are what is the reference range for normal. Ultrasound skills are operator dependent and time and repetition will teach what is normal on your scanner. However, there are reference ranges in the literature, mostly spread out in different papers and books. These will help you get a sense of normal. This book combines all these references to form a brilliant resource.

One of the first things I looked for was whether they included normal peristalsis movements (this is one of the most common questions I get asked a lot on courses I’ve taught on) and they do!

What is in the book?

This book can only be bought on kindle or a kindle app. You have a couple of choices about how to get it and use it.

You can download the app in the Android Play store and in the Apple App Store which is free to install. The book is then incredibly good value – find out more here
You can join kindle unlimited (The link below will set you up for a free 30 day trial on kindle unlimited where you get the book and 1,000,000s of other books for free during that time) and then the book will be free.

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Should I buy it if I’m in First Opinion Small Animal Veterinary Practice?

I tried the book on both my kindle app on my Samsung phone and on my (old Kindle – I had to find the charger – I still think the pencil images are pretty cool, but I do prefer a physical book for reading).

The images work fine on both, although they were slightly better on the app on my phone, and I could zoom in for a closer look then. I think Kindle is the right application for this book, as it is so handy to look at on your phone during an examination, rather than looking through a book.

It’s such good value and delivers on abdominal ultrasound reference values, so well worth getting, in my opinion. This will complement other ultrasound books as it doesn’t do any more than it says it does, but it does very well.

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