Emergency Medicine 2009
with Dr Trudi McAlees and Dr Sandra Forsyth
February 2009
Improve your confidence in dealing with emergency and critical care cases within your practice.
Develop the practical skills and techniques used in the treatment and monitoring of critically ill animals.
An emphasis on case-based problem solving and the basics of critical care will make this useful for veterinarians in all practice situations.
By participating in this course, you can expect to:
- develop appropriate fluid therapy plans for patients in shock and for hypovolaemic patients, and for ongoing maintenance
- perform emergency procedures such as thoracocentesis, pericardiocentesis, and tracheostomy
- perform diagnostic procedures in the emergency setting such as abdominocentesis and DPL
- perform 'cage side' clinical pathology, looking at blood smears to assess anaemias, analysing fluid from body cavities, and looking at urine sediment
- treat an acutely dyspnoeic patient
- differentiate between cardiac and pulmonary disease
- treat 'acute abdomen'
- manage wounds to optimise healing and reduce infection
- assess an animal with multiple trauma
- become more familiar with analgesia
- perform blood transfusions
- understand the principles and practice of CPR and monitor a critically ill animal
Tutors
Dr Trudi McAlees
BSc BVSc MACVSc
Trudi is the head of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Melbourne Veterinary Clinic and Hospital. She has extensive experience working with critically ill and emergency patients in the 24 hour ICU in the hospital. Trudi has a membership of the Australian College of Veterinary Scientists in Anaesthesia and Critical Care (1999) and Emergency and Critical Care (2001).
Dr Sandra Forsyth
BVSc, Dip ACVA
Sandra Forsyth is currently working in clinical pathology and anaesthesia at Massey University and for New Zealand Veterinary Pathology.
Sandra is a diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Anaesthesiologists.
Enquiries
Please contact Billy Paterson, course coordinator.
All DE participants are required to be CVE members.