Vet LUS Expert – we are a team of human doctors and veterinarians focused on training veterinarians in transthoracic lung ultrasound of small animals.
Katarzyna Kraszewska, PhD, DVM and Michał Gajewski, DVM
We are veterinary clinicians with a special interest in veterinary cardiology and pulmonology. For over 10 years we’ve been working in these fields at the VETcardia cardiopulmonary referral in Warsaw, and consulting patients in many other clinics in Warsaw and around Poland. We are also members of the European Society of Veterinary Cardiology (ESVC).
In our everyday practice we deal with patients with congenital defects and acquired diseases of the cardiovascular system and treat patients with chronic diseases of the respiratory system (chronic bronchitis, tracheal collapse, chronic interstitial lung disease, and others). We also consult patients with acute respiratory distress in emergency situations.
Due to large numbers of patients experiencing breathing difficulties which we have consulted as part of a differential diagnostic process we decided to start performing transthoracic lung ultrasound (LUS) in dogs and cats. It did not take long before this modality became our everyday tool.
