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Webinar Plus: Problem-solving in small Webinar Plus: Management of the small Practical POCUS: Fundamentals of Local anaesthetic techniques
animal anaesthesia animal trauma patient: Part 1 Point-of-care Ultrasound Tuesday 21st October
Monday 28th April to Sunday 25th May Monday 9th June to Sunday 6th July Thursday 12th June NEW Are you sure we can block that? How do you do it?!

Does your heart sink when you have to anaesthetise a sick patient for a Do you feel panicky when you are faced with the patient who has Are you keen to use or start using point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) This course aims to teach participants how to implement local
procedure? Would you like to improve your anaesthetic management for sustained major trauma and worry how best to stabilise these complex in managing your emergency patients? Do you use POCUS but lack anaesthesia techniques on a day-to-day basis in veterinary practice. The
both routine and sick cases? patients and which injuries to treat first? confidence in your practical skills? Do you want to get hands-on practice course is designed to cover information relevant for both vets and nurses
The aim of this course is to provide practical day-to-day advice for This course can help you! It is the first of two related courses on of POCUS with leading teachers in the field? and will consist of pre-recorded online lectures and an onsite practical day.
managing common anaesthesia scenarios in practice. Delegates management of the trauma patient. It will cover initial management This course will include online lectures and a 4-hour hands-on practical The online material should be viewed prior to attending the practical day.
enrolled on this course will have the opportunity to reinforce their skills in strategies as well as how to prioritise and treat major life-threatening developed and delivered by leaders in the field of veterinary POCUS. We encourage vets and nurses from the same practice to attend the
anaesthesia, developing a logical approach to the peri-anaesthetic period, injuries as well as techniques and definitive/ temporary strategies to Through practical, supervised hands-on training using live dogs, everyone course so that a coordinated approach to analgesia in their practice can
with the focus on designing an individualised anaesthetic plan, problem manage the patient with soft tissue, orthopaedic and neurological injuries. will have the opportunity to learn and practice all of the common veterinary be developed. Relevant legislation will be covered.
solving and approaching anaesthesia in the sick patient. POCUS techniques currently used to assess the abdomen, pleural space, Course details
Course details lung, and heart. Phantoms training models will be used to demonstrate
Course details Course type: Webinar Plus CPD hours: Up to 16 and practice ultrasound guided vascular access. Course type: Webinars and onsite CPD hours: 12
Course type: Webinar Plus CPD hours: Up to 16 Course length: 4 weeks Course fee: £429 Course details Course length: 1 day onsite and 4 Course fee: Vet and nurse team:
Course length: 4 weeks Course fee: £429 or £799 for both parts 1 and 2 Course type: Webinars and onsite CPD hours: 12 hours online £1,248; Vet only: £849;
Relevant to CertAVP module(s): B-SAP.1, C-VA.1 and 3 Relevant to CertAVP module(s): C-ECC.2 and 3, C-SAS.3 Nurse only: £499
Course length: 4 hours onsite and Course fee: £649 Relevant to CertAVP module(s): C-VA.1
Tutors Tutors online lectures Tutors
Nicola Tian Zhi Ho BVetMed MVetMed DipACVAA MAcadMEd MRCVS, Stefano Cortellini DVM MVetMed DipACVECC DipECVECC MRCVS, Tutors
Lecturer in Veterinary Anaesthesia and Analgesia, RVC Senior Lecturer in Emergency and Critical Care, RVC Soren Boysen DVM DipACVECC, Professor of Veterinary Emergency Lisa Angell VTS (Anaesthesia/Analgesia) PGCertVetEd RVN, Head
Anaesthesia Nurse, RVC
Carolina Palacios Jimenez DVM CertVA PGCertVetEd PhD DipECVAA Joe Fenn BVetMed MVetMed DipECVN FHEA MRCVS, Senior Lecturer and Critical Care, University of Calgary
MRCVS, Senior Lecturer in Veterinary Anaesthesia and Analgesia, RVC in Veterinary Neurology and Neurosurgery, RVC Laura Cole BA VetMB PGCertVetEd CertAVP(ECC) DipACVECC Sandra Sanchis Mora Lda Vet MVetMed PhD DipECVAA PGCertVetEd
FHEA MRCVS, Anaesthesia Specialist, Blaise Referrals
Thaleia-Rengina Stathopoulou DVM MVetMed DipECVAA MRCVS, Lynda Rutherford BVM&S MVetMed DipECVS PGCertVetEd FHEA DipECVECC MRCVS, Lecturer in Emergency and Critical Care, RVC
Lecturer in Veterinary Anaesthesia and Analgesia, RVC MRCVS, Senior Lecturer in Small Animal Surgery, RVC Simon Cook BVSc MVetMed DipACVECC DipECVECC FHEA MRCVS, Proudly supported by IMV and Vygon Vet
Iris Veen DVM DipECVAA MRCVS, Lecturer in Veterinary Anaesthesia Rhiannon Strickland BVetMed MVetMed PGCertVetEd DipECVS FHEA Senior Lecturer in Emergency and Critical Care, RVC
and Analgesia, RVC MRCVS, Lecturer in Small Animal Surgery, RVC Erica Tinson BSc BVSc MVS DipACVECC FHEA MRCVS, Lecturer in
Emergency and Critical Care, RVC

RECOVER BLS and ALS Rescuer Webinar Plus: Does that murmur really Emergency patient online Webinar Plus: Management of the small
Certification Workshop matter? Anaesthetising the cardiac patient Monday 8th September animal trauma patient: Part 2

Tuesday 1st April or Tuesday 17th June NEW Monday 9th June to Sunday 6th July NEW to Sunday 19th October Monday 3rd to Sunday 30th November
Learn order out of chaos, learn how to run cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Do you ever feel overwhelmed anaesthetising a small animal with Emergencies are common in all practices, not just after hours! Are you worried about how to manage patients with multiple traumatic
How do we best treat animals in cardiopulmonary arrest? Evidence-based heart disease? You picked up a murmur during your pre-anaesthesia Emergency cases can be some of the most fun and rewarding patients injuries, serious wounds or trauma to the eye, neck or thorax? Do you
veterinary CPR guidelines, published by the RECOVER Initiative, aimed examination and you don’t know how to proceed? seen in veterinary practice. However, they can also be some of the more worry about how to safely anaesthetise the trauma patient?
at maximizing patient survival after cardiopulmonary arrest, led to the During this course we will go through the basic pathophysiology of challenging and stressful patients to treat. This course, the second of a two-part series can be taken independently
official veterinary CPR certification process approved by the American different heart diseases that are commonly encountered in small animals. During this course you will learn diagnostic and therapeutic approaches to the first trauma management or as a follow-on course. It will cover
College of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care. During this course We will discuss the pharmacology of the anaesthetic and analgesic to common emergency and trauma cases to increase your confidence and extensive soft tissue injuries including the management of skin wounds
participants will be taught the concepts and techniques of RECOVER agents and how they can affect the cardiovascular system of the dogs reduce your stress levels. (triage, dressing, surgical techniques), neck and thoracic trauma cases,
Basic Life Support (BLS) and Advanced Life Support (ALS). The course and cats with different heart diseases. We will also include real case ophthalmologic emergencies and how to anaesthetise patients with
will conclude with a practical assessment in both areas resulting in scenarios, parameters we need to monitor and prioritise, pharmacologic Course details complex injuries. We will provide you with a comprehensive guide so you
certification as a RECOVER Certified Rescuer upon passing. agents that we should rather avoid and what alternatives we have in order Course type: e-CPD CPD hours: Up to 42 can review, consolidate and update your knowledge on the management
Prerequisite: Completion of the online RECOVER BLS and ALS at to offer a balanced and safe anaesthetic for animals with heart disease. Course length: 6 weeks Course fee: £729 of these challenging patients.
recoverinitiative.org is required to attend this workshop. Course details Relevant to CertAVP module(s): C-ECC.1, 2 and 3, C-VA.3 Course details
Further dates may become available depending on demand.
Course type: Webinar Plus CPD hours: Up to 16 Tutors Course type: Webinar Plus CPD hours: Up to 16
Course details Course length: 4 weeks Course fee: £429 Dominic Barfield BSc BVSc MVetMed DipACVECC DipECVECC FHEA Course length: 4 weeks Course fee: £429
Course type: Onsite CPD hours: 8 Relevant to CertAVP module(s): C-VA.1 MRCVS, Associate Professor in Emergency and Critical Care, RVC or £799 for both parts 1 and 2
Course length: 1 day Course fee: £599 Dan Chan DVM DipACVECC DipECVECC DipACVN FHEA MRCVS, Relevant to CertAVP module(s): C-ECC.2 and 3, C-SAS.3
Tutors
Tutors Carolina Palacios Jimenez DVM CertVA PGCertVetEd PhD DipECVAA Professor of Emergency and Critical Care and Clinical Nutrition, RVC Tutors
Karen Humm MA VetMB MSc CertVA DipACVECC DipECVECC FHEA
Dominic Barfield BSc BVSc MVetMed DipACVECC DipECVECC FHEA MRCVS, Senior Lecturer in Veterinary Anaesthesia and Analgesia, RVC MRCVS, Professor in Transfusion Medicine and Emergency and Critical Carolina Palacios Jimenez DVM CertVA PGCertVetEd PhD DipECVAA
MRCVS, Associate Professor in Emergency and Critical Care, RVC Cristina Parra Martinez DVM MVetMed, Staff Clinician in Veterinary Care, RVC MRCVS, Senior Lecturer in Veterinary Anaesthesia and Analgesia, RVC
Dave Beeston BVetMed MVetMed PGDipVCP DipACVECC Anaesthesia and Analgesia, RVC Lynda Rutherford BVM&S MVetMed DipECVS PGCertVetEd FHEA
DipECVECC MRCVS, Emergency and Critical Care Clinician, Willows Thaleia-Rengina Stathopoulou DVM MVetMed DipECVAA MRCVS, MRCVS, Senior Lecturer in Small Animal Surgery, RVC
Veterinary Centre and Referral Service Lecturer in Veterinary Anaesthesia and Analgesia, RVC Roser Tetas Pont LV MSc DipECVO PGCertVetEd FHEA MRCVS,
Iris Veen DVM DipECVAA MRCVS, Lecturer in Veterinary Anaesthesia Senior Lecturer in Veterinary Ophthalmology, RVC
and Analgesia, RVC