Key Information
CPD Hours: 42 hours
Course Length: Six weeks
Course Format: An intensive tutor-moderated learning experience. Resources include online presentations, electronic course notes, videos, case assessments, self-assessment quizzes and discussion forums in which participants review and discuss cases with their colleagues and the tutor
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I was very impressed with the feedback and replies from both the course leaders, this was the best part of the course.
Course Information
Key Areas
- The “shocked” patient
- The approach to and stabilisation of the trauma patient
- The dyspnoeic emergency – assessment and stabilisation
- A rational approach to fluid therapy in the emergency patient
- The acute kidney injury patient
- The “acute” abdomen
- Using point of care ultrasound (POCUS) in emergency patients
- Bleeding emergencies and transfusion therapy
- Nutritional support of hospitalised patients
- Sepsis and new advances in management of critically ill patients
Emergencies are common in all practices, not just after hours!
Emergency cases can be some of the most fun and rewarding patients seen in veterinary practice. However, they can also be some of the more challenging and stressful patients to treat.
Why do this course?
During this course you will learn diagnostic and therapeutic approaches to common emergency and trauma cases to increase your confidence and reduce your stress levels.
Course notes
Please note: In line with the RVC’s environmental policy we are trying to reduce our use of paper, therefore we will not be supplying printed course notes. The course notes will be available electronically as a downloadable pdf on the course which can be printed.
Tutors
Dominic Barfield, BSc BVSc MVetMed DipACVECC DipECVECC FHEA MRCVS
Associate Professor in Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care
The Royal Veterinary College
Dan Chan, DVM DipACVECC DipECVECC DipACVN FHEA MRCVS
Professor of Emergency Critical Care Medicine and Clinical Nutrition
The Royal Veterinary College
Karen Humm, MA VetMB MSc CertVA DACVECC DipECVECC FHEA MRCVS
Associate Professor in Transfusion Medicine and ECC
The Royal Veterinary College
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