Emergency Medicine 2012

Emergency Medicine is now full for 2012.
Please email us to be placed on the waiting list for 2013.

An emphasis on case-based problems and the basics of critical care will make this course very useful for veterinarians in all practice situations. The course is also good preparation for MACVSc exams in emergency and critical care.

Tutors

The tutors for this program are Trudi McAlees and Sandra Forsyth.

Key benefits

  • develop appropriate fluid therapy plans
  • learn to perform emergency procedures such as thoracocentesis, pericardiocentesis, and placing a tracheostomy tube
  • learn to perform diagnostic procedures in the emergency setting
  • learn to take and prepare ‘cage-side’ clinical pathology samples that will be useful!
  • gain confidence dealing with the acutely dyspnoeic patient
  • deal confidently with the ‘acute abdomen’
  • learn how to manage wounds to optimise healing and reduce infection
  • gain confidence dealing with animals presenting after trauma
  • analgesia: what to use, when to use it, and how much to give
  • toxicology and blood transfusions
  • increase your knowledge of CPR

Modules

  1. General Set-up of a Critical Care Area, Toxicities & Envenomations
  2. Shock & Fluid Therapy
  3. Acute Abdominal Disease & Nutrition
  4. Cardiovascular & Respiratory Disease
  5. Anaemia, Erythrocytosis and Bleeding Disorders
  6. Cytology in the Emergency Patient
  7. Metabolic & Endocrine Emergencies, Urinary Tract Disease
  8. CPR & Analgesia
  9. Multi-system Trauma & Wound Management
  10. Intracranial & Extracranial Neurological Disease, Ocular Emergencies

More information

Course information brochure (pdf)

Enquiries

Please contact us by email.