Few things get the adrenaline pumping like being faced with an emergency case. The decisions you make over those first critical minutes and hours can be the difference between a great outcome – or a terrible day.
This practically-oriented course will allow you to brush up on your emergency management techniques and gain a deeper understanding of how treatment choices impact outcomes.
Prioritising injuries in animals with multiple trauma, formulating fluid therapy plans, effectively performing CPR, placing a chest drain: all of these are skills that you need if you’re dealing with small animal emergencies.
The packed program also includes a practical guide to transfusions in cats and dogs, treatment options for haemabdomen and managing respiratory distress. Analgesia and anaesthesia in the critical patient, identification and treatment of shock and toxicity management will all be discussed.
If you deal with emergency cases, this course is a must. The tips you learn might just be key to saving a life.
Learning Outcomes
By successfully completing this course, you will be able to:
- Assess an animal with multiple trauma, eg the cat or dog hit by car: what are the priorities in these cases, and what comes next
- Develop appropriate fluid therapy plans for patients in the different types of shock for hypovolaemic patients, and for ongoing maintenance
- Confidently run and interpret admission blood tests including blood gases
- Master surgical procedures such as the practical ability to place a central line, chest drain O-tube, a urinary catheter and perform an epidural.
Program
| Day 1 |
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| 8.30 |
Registration |
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| 9.00 |
Triage, Emergency database
The initial assessment of a trauma patient with interpretation of the emergency data base including blood gases |
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| 10.00 |
Shock
What shock is and how to recognise it in your patients. |
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| 10.40 |
Morning Tea |
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| 11:00 |
Fluid therapy
How to formulate a fluid plan: fluid type, rate, treatment goals. Some of the adverse effects of fluid therapy including a discussion of how and why oedema forms. How fluid therapy can be used to treat shock, and what to do when fluids alone aren’t enough. A brief overview of vasopressors and their actions. |
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| 12.30 |
Lunch |
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| 1.30 |
Emergency database interpretation
Practical case-based blood result problems |
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| 2.00 |
Analgesia and anaesthesia in the critical patient
Drugs to choose, monitoring to perform |
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| 3.00 |
Afternoon Tea |
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| 3.20 |
CPR and the crash box
Based on the RECOVER guidelines
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| 4.00 |
Toxicity treatment
The general management of toxicities including seizure control |
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| 5.00 |
END |
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| Day 2 |
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| 8.30 |
Registration |
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| 9.00 |
Practical Session Wet lab (4 hours)
- Central line placement and blood sampling from a central line
- Oesophagostomy tube
- Thoracic drain: non-surgical placement - trocar and Seldinger
- Tracheostomy tube
- Urinary catheterisation
- Epidural
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| 1:00 |
Lunch |
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| 1.45 |
Transfusions
A practical guide to transfusions in cats and dogs: indications, collecting blood for immediate use, administering blood products |
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| 3.00 |
Afternoon Tea |
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| 3.20 |
Haemabdomen
A review of traumatic and non-traumatic haemabdomen, and treatment options. (NB emergency surgery techniques are not discussed in detail) |
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| 4.00 |
Respiratory distress
How to assess and treat animals that present with respiratory distress. When is oxygen helpful? When is ventilation indicated? What are the options? |
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| 5.00 |
END |
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What is a Theory & Practice?
Highly practical – develop the confidence to implement your new skills immediately
Practical workshops are an ideal way to build confidence and competence in your skills.
With the ideally balanced combination of theoretical and hands-on education, our workshops allow participants to obtain the most benefit possible through the practical application of the skills being taught. Small group teaching with a high tutor to participant ratio will ensure that you benefit from individual attention from the highly regarded and experienced tutor/s. Nothing beats on-the-spot feedback as you learn a new procedure.
Who should enrol?
This course is designed for qualified veterinarians. Veterinary students are welcome to enrol.
Venue details
Download the venue details here.
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2-days (Seminar + Workshop) |
Seminar Only |
| Registrant Type |
Early Bird |
Full Rate |
Early Bird |
Full Rate |
| Member* |
$1938 |
$2040 |
$504 |
$593 |
| Recent Grad / Part-Time Professional Member |
$1727 |
$1818 |
$315 |
$371 |
| Student Member |
$1551 |
$1633 |
$157 |
$185 |
| eMember / Non-Member |
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$2349 |
- |
$741 |
*Members include: Practice, Professional and Academic members.