This is exactly why I loved this conversation with ECC specialist and Director of Animal Emergency Australia, Dr Rob Webster, about the 6 steps that will help you localise the problem in the respiratory distress patient. Because once you localise it, you have a DD list, and you have a plan.

Dr Rob guides us through the first minutes of assessing the respiratory distress veterinary patient and shows us how to quickly assess breathing patterns and sounds to help you pin-point and fix the problem.

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Topic list:

5:49 Step 1: Evaluate respiratory effort.

11:31 Step 2: Is the breathing noisy?

20:22 Step 3: Is the chest wall intact?

28:16 Step 4: Is the breathing fast and shallow?

36:27 Step 5: Fast and shallow, but with

nothing abnormal on lung imaging.

38:01 Step 6: Non-respiratory causes.