This course will cover a range of real world, practical techniques that you will be able to use in your clinic that will help you to maximise your stabilisation, diagnosis and treatment of critically ill patients.

• Join Lindsay Kellett-Gregory BSc(Hons), BVetMed(Hons), DACVECC, FHEA, MRCVS for three 2-hour online sessions
• 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 May 2017

Programme

Techniques for initial assessment of the emergency patient

What you’ll learn:

• How to triage patients and make a major body systems evaluation
• How to characterise respiratory distress, including patient side ultrasound assessment
• Emergency stabilisation of patients with respiratory distress
• Options for vascular access

Emergency diagnostic procedures

What you’ll learn:

• How to identify and collect abdominal fluid
• Abdominal fluid analysis in practice
• Selection and interpretation of labwork in the emergency clinic including blood smear evaluation
• Indications for and options for sampling airways

Emergency therapeutic procedures

What you’ll learn:

• How to deal with pleural space disease
• Options to be considered when transfusing patients
• Essential of cardiopulmonary resuscitation
• Practical techniques for dealing with toxicity cases
• Practical tips for dealing with a variety of other emergency conditions, including GDV, pericardial effusion, and feline urethral obstruction