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Canine Abdominal FAST Exam

Dr. Camilla Edwards

The Abdominal FAST exam is helpful when looking for small amounts of free fluid in the peritoneal, retroperitoneal, pleural and pericardial spaces. Dr. Edwards demonstrates her technique in this video.

Specialties: Veterinary
Applications: Abdomen
hi I'm Dr Camila Edwards from first opinion veter ultrasound and today we'll be looking at how to do an abdominal fast scan first of all take our probe and place it behind the ziy sternum and we've been looking deep through the liver this is our diaphragmatic hepatic View and we want to extend the depth as far as possible so that we can see the heart beating um or um into the thoracic cavity also and we want to rock the probe and fan the probe the next view is the spleno renal view so we go into that top left quadrant where we find our our spleen and our kidney and we want to reduce our depth a bit here and again we rock and we fan in this region we look for the cystolic view where we find our bladder and our colon and again we fan and we rock and our final view is our spleno intestinal view where we look underneath the dog at about the level of the umbilicus where we can find spleen and intestines and we again fan and rock that's how to do an abdominal far scan on a dog

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