Equine

WVC 91st Annual Conference

EQ39 - Cardiac Murmurs in Horses: What the Ambulatory Practitioner Needs to Know

Primary Presenter(s)

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  Todd Holbrook, DVM, DACVIM (LAIM), ACVSMR

  June Jacobs Endowed Chair and Professor of Equine Medicine
  Oklahoma State University

Moderator(s)

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  Jerry Billquist, DVM, MS

  owner
  Billquist Animal Care

Learning Objectives:

• Describe the complete cardiovascular examination technique necessary to accurately characterize murmurs in an adult horse.
• Describe the character of murmur associated with physiologic murmurs, and the three most common valvular insufficiencies in adult horses.
• Identify the clinical significance of murmurs in adult horses enabling referral of appropriate cases to a specialist for additional diagnostic workup.