On this Mini Series we’ll take an in-depth, up to date, evidence-based medicine approach to cranial cruciate ligament disease. We will briefly re-cap making a diagnosis and aetiopathogenesis of cranial cruciate ligament disease, but the focus will be on an in-depth analysis of the treatment options including extra-capsular surgery, TTA and TPLO.

• Join Gareth Arthurs PGCertMedEd MA VetMB CertVR CertSAS DSAS(Orth) FHEA MRCVS for three 2-hour online sessions and enhance your ability to manage your patients with CCL disease
• Comprehensive notes to downloaded
• Self-assessment quizzes to ‘release’ your 8 hours CPD certification (don’t worry, you can take them more than once if you don’t quite hit the mark first time)
• A whole year’s access to recorded sessions for reviewing key points!
• Superb value for money – learn without travelling
• Watch the recordings on your iPad!
• This Mini Series was originally broadcast in September 2016.

Programme

The Stifle – Cranial Cruciate Ligament Disease: A Recap

This session will re-cap the basics of making the diagnosis, the aetiopathogenesis of cranial cruciate ligament disease, the evidence for and against intra and extra-capsular stabilisation techniques, making the arthrotomy, debriding the cranial cruciate ligament or not, and meniscal inspection and treatment strategies such as release.

What you’ll learn:

• How to make a diagnosis of cranial cruciate ligament disease
• The aetiopathogenesis of cranial cruciate ligament disease
• Extra-capsular stabilisation techniques – the evidence for and against
• How to make an arthrotomy
• Should you debride the cranial cruciate ligament?
• How to inspect the menisci
• Treatment strategies

Tibial Tuberosity Advancement (TTA)

This session will cover the history of the TTA procedure and investigate how the procedure has evolved over the last 10 or so years since it was introduced in the early 2000s. We will cover the basic steps of doing a TTA using a simple forked and screwed system. We will consider the surgical challenges and decision making that the procedure demands. We will use current evidence based medicine to guide us. We will cover the many variations on the original TTA procedure, and consider the various advantages and disadvantages of each. We will also consider complications of TTA surgery, how to minimise the chances of them happening, and how to deal with them if they do happen.

What you’ll learn:

• The history and evolution of the TTA procedure
• TTA step-by-step using a simple forked and screwed system
• Decision-making with surgical challenges
• Evidence-based medicine
• Advantages and disadvantages of TTA variations
• Surgical complications – how to minimise them and how to deal with them

Tibial Plateau Levelling Surgery (TPLO)

This session will cover the history of the TPLO procedure and investigate how the procedure has evolved over the last 30 years since it was introduced in the 1980s. We will cover the basic steps of doing a TPLO using a locking plate system, and consider the surgical challenges and decision making that the procedure demands. We will use current evidence based medicine to guide us. We will also consider complications of TTA surgery, how to minimise the chances of them happening, and how to deal with them if they do happen.

What you’ll learn:

• The history and evolution of the TPLO procedure
• TPLO step-by-step using a locking plate system
• Decision-making with surgical challenges
• Evidence-based medicine
• Surgical complications – how to minimise them and how to deal with them