Continuing Education

This lecture aims to educate about adrenal disease in cats with a focus on the most common - hyperaldosteronism. We will discuss clinical signs, diagnosis and treatment options. In addition we will also discuss some of the less common adrenal diseases such as hyperadrenocorticism, sex hormone secreting tumours and phaechromocytoma.

It will take you from the basics of clinical neurology and an introduction to neuroanatomical localization, to developing a logical step-wise approach to the most common neurological presentations of companion animals. 

Echocardiography has become more complex (and affordable), new blood tests have appeared, and new drugs have become available. As a result, keeping up with the advances in feline cardiology is challenging.

Join the CVE in Cairns as we bring together three well respected specialists to talk all things Neurology! General practitioners can feel uncomfortable and even overwhelmed by the idea of having to assess patients with suspected neurological disease. It is often wrongly assumed that these patients can only be evaluated by neurology specialists who have access to advanced diagnostic imaging techniques such as magnetic resonance imaging and computed tomography.

During this course you will however learn that many neurology patients can perfectly be managed in first opinion practice without the need for advanced and expensive diagnostics.

Clinically relevant topics will be discussed, including tips and tricks on how to get more from your neuro-exam, how to obtain a reliable list of differential diagnoses, the role of further diagnostics, seizures, other brain disorders, neurological emergencies and spinal disorders.