Global FAST® for Heartworm Disease and Caval Syndrome – You Can Do Worm Retrieval and Save These Dogs! Watch our AWESOME Webinar to have a plan for surgical heartworm retrieval working from Dr. Stephen Jones’ “step-by-step” Caval Syndrome Part III article published several years ago clicking here for the document.
Our webinar has awesome images of the heart with heartworms and imaging of the pulmonary arteries. This is a MUST watch and will help you build TFAST® fundamental echocardiography skills (recognizing intracardiac and caudal vena cava heartworms, pulmonary hypertension, 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 (PTE) that often occurs post adulticide treatment.
If I knew then what I know now, I could have saved a dog that presented with cardiovascular collapse having Caval Syndrome that needed an emergent surgical heartworm retrieval. Now I am aware that surgical heartworm retrieval requires minimal equipment (a red rubber tube and suture ties) and only fundamental surgical principles to perform the lifesaving procedure. And you have nothing to lose in a dying patient. Many dogs have successful surgical heartworm retrieval and thereafter have an excellent prognosis.
Some excerpts from Dr. Stephen Jones’ “step-by-step” Caval Syndrome Part III article:
Be sure to review the entire document…
You can also Internet Search this document that is easy to find through search engines…
In our FASTVet Awesome 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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