A day never goes by when our practice isn’t using an ultrasound. We have a high-performance digital ultrasound system that we use for a wide variety of things. Over the course of my whole career, I have become very reliant on the ultrasound for almost all cases of colic, abdominal and thoracic disease. We diagnose tendon, ligament and joint pathology with the ultrasound. We do ultrasound-guided injection, allowing us to precisely deliver medications at a site of injury. We ultrasound wounds in order to determine involvement of critical structures like tendons, joints and ligaments. Of course, we also use ultrasound extensively for mare reproduction.
This is an ultrasound image of a blood clot in the aorta of a horse with recurring hind limb lameness. The clot drastically reduced blood flow to the right hind limb.