Global FAST® for Heartworm Disease and Caval Syndrome – You Can Do Worm Retrieval and Save These Dogs! Watch this AWESOME Webinar to have a plan for heartworm retrieval working from Dr. Stephen Jones’ “step-by-step” article published several years ago.
This webinar has awesome images of the heart with heartworms and imaging the pulmonary arteries. This is a MUST watch and will help you build TFAST® fundamental echocardiography skills (recognizing intracardiac heartworms, pulmonary hypertension, and heartworms and “saddle thrombus” at the bifurcation of the mainstem pulmonary arteries); and use of Vet BLUE® for the detection of the “Wedge Sign” of pulmonary thromboembolism.
If I knew then what I know now, I could have saved a dog with cardiovascular collapse with Caval Syndrome that needed an emergent heartworm retrieval. The heartworm retrieval requires minimal equipment and surreal expertise to perform the lifesaving procedure. And you have nothing to lose in a dying patient. Many have successful retrieval and have an excellent prognosis.
In the Webinar you will learn how to approach performing a right-sided jugular vein cutdown and the use of a red rubber catheter with suture ties for retrieval.
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