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Safety Management

Safety Precautions When Using Ultrasound

Let’s talk safety at the chute. Please continue this conversation with your co-workers and clients. It is a topic that needs to be discussed regularly.

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Use the ReproScan Learning Center to your full advantage as a ReproScan customer. You can find learning techniques in every area such as, ultrasounding each species, equipment care, practice management, and even finding real life examples of our ultrasound units in use. You can also explore our social media pages to find other examples of what ReproScan shares online. Stay up to date on everything ReproScan by signing up for our quarterly newsletters and by visiting our ReproScan News page!

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Practicing Efficiency

Considering Efficiency

The beef industry is built on a platform of efficiency; cow-calf operations, stockers, and feed yards all strive for efficiency. For cow-calf producers, reproductive efficiency is the key to success. Many ranches are currently utilizing ultrasound technology to increase their efficiency. In recent years ultrasound technology has greatly improved, offering simpler and more affordable options for both producers and veterinarians. Producers and veterinarians alike can greatly benefit from the implementation of convex probe extension arm ultrasound technology. Ultrasound technology has the ability to greatly increase the reproductive efficiency of a herd by allowing pregnancy diagnosis to be accurately completed at an …

The ReproScan 2.0 Monitor was specifically designed to work with Ram Mount mounting equipment. Clients that adapt the Ram Mounts to their ReproScan equipment are very pleased with the results.

Implementing the Extension Arm in Your Practice

ReproScan Has Your Back -- Literally!

As you know pregchecking can be quite taxing on your body. Practitioner’s shoulders, elbows, and hands get a lot of wear and tear.

I have had the pleasure of working with Dr. Lauren Mack The Animal Hospital since she purchased her first ReproScan machine in 2016. She was not against the ReproArm, but Extension Arm technology was not her preferred method of preg checking.

Having an ultrasound has benefited both of my practices! In the original of the two locations it has given us the opportunity to expand our diagnostic options in the small animal side and enhance our large animal pregnancy examination techniques.

The beef industry is built on a platform of efficiency; cow-calf operations, stockers, and feed yards all strive for efficiency. For cow-calf producers, reproductive efficiency is the key to success. Many ranches are currently utilizing ultrasound technology to increase their efficiency. In recent years ultrasound technology has greatly improved, offering simpler and more affordable options for both producers and veterinarians. Producers and veterinarians alike can greatly benefit from the implementation of convex probe extension arm ultrasound technology. Ultrasound technology has the ability to greatly increase the reproductive efficiency of a herd by allowing pregnancy diagnosis to be accurately completed at an …

The right ultrasound probe depends on what you are wanting to ultrasound. Each probe can be used for different types of exams, so it greatly depends on what exams you will be performing and their regularity. Read on to learn a bit more of the basics of our most common probes.

How to Ultrasound with the Extension Arm

Tips, Tricks and Techniques – Getting the Right Pressure on the ReproArm

It’s that time of year, a lot of cows are longer bred and ultrasounding is not quite as easy. Check out this video of some very practical tips on longer bred cattle.

As ranchers find innovative ways to reduce winter feed costs such as bale grazing and corn stock grazing, the pregnancy testing season gets extended. When the cows finally get near the corrals for pregnancy testing, the person doing the ultrasound work should be ready for some additional challenges:

Horsin' Around with Dr. Harrison

Real ReproScan Dr. Leslie Harrison

This customer highlight we would like to highlight a mobile rural mixed animal practitioner. Dr. Leslie Harrison. She drives ¾ ton Chevy all over the mountain passes in central Colorado. If only vet trucks could talk!

Considerations: There are many ways to diagnose pregnancy in a mare, however ultrasound stands out as the most useful and versatile. While manual palpation can diagnose pregnancy and potentially twins, it can’t show a fetal heartrate or consistently diagnose placentitis. Only ultrasound can show fetal health, birth defects, placentitis, and allow for accurate fetal aging. It also allows for the monitoring of cervical tone, uterine edema, and follicular development while preparing to breed a mare.

Dr. Mack's Experience

Real ReproScan Dr. Mack

I have had the pleasure of working with Dr. Lauren Mack The Animal Hospital since she purchased her first ReproScan machine in 2016. She was not against the ReproArm, but Extension Arm technology was not her preferred method of preg checking.

Having an ultrasound has benefited both of my practices! In the original of the two locations it has given us the opportunity to expand our diagnostic options in the small animal side and enhance our large animal pregnancy examination techniques.

Dr. Ginther and UW-Madison

Cleaning & Storing Your Equipment

Stop, drop and roll... or drop, stop and send?

Our ultrasounds are very durable. But, sometimes, there are forces outside of your control. How do you know when to send in your machine?

Preg checking season has come to an end for many northern ReproScan customers. It is all too easy to put your ultrasound equipment into the backroom without a thought. However, to get the most out of your ultrasound and viewing devices, ReproScan recommends that you fully charge your ultrasound battery as well as your monitor batteries, then run for 3 hours.

ReproScan ultrasound units work in tough conditions every day. The equipment is exposed to dust and moisture; moisture in the form of condensation can creep into the unit without your knowledge. Please consider sending your ReproScan unit in for a service check to our service depot in Pennsylvania or Alberta.