Ultrasound in veterinary medicine is currently not limited to the specialty veterinary practice. Veterinarians are purchasing this important diagnostic tool for their own use which allows the general veterinary practitioner the ability to check for effusions non-invasively, to perform FNA, and to look for abnormalities that radiographs alone cannot diagnosis.
Tomas W. Baker has written a book for veterinarians interested in performing ultrasound of the eye, neck, and shoulder. In each chapter he explains proper placement of the patient and scan-heads, what normal should look like, and gives possible scenarios with corresponding ultrasound images to show what abnormal looks like. One chapter discusses phantom objects that look like internal structures allowing the reader valuable insight between normal and abnormal during an ultrasound.
The pictures presented within the CD are the same as the pictures in the book and are labeled with the same figures. This allows the reader to look on the computer as if they were looking at a freeze frame of the ultrasound. The one downfall of this book is the price and hence the 3 out of 5 rating. I would recommend this book to the veterinarian that has an ultrasound in their practice, or the veterinary student that wants to learn proper performance of ultrasounds.
AHHA press, 2012
ISBN 13: 978-1-58326-176-7