Nervous about nerve blocks? Jittery about joint medications? This course will focus on practical tips and techniques, with case examples, to arm you with the skills to embark on lameness investigations.

Patients with respiratory disease may present to the veterinary clinic with severe respiratory distress. These patients can be extremely fragile and difficult to manage. This topic covers a step by step approach to these patients. The topic covers various ways of providing supplemental oxygen as well as the best ways to assess patients in respiratory distress using physical examination parameters and bed-side diagnostic testing. Also covered is stabilisation techniques for common causes of respiratory distress.

Animals presenting with an acute abdomen are characterised as having abdominal pain, often accompanied by the presence of vomiting and diarrhoea. A big challenge can be to determine whether the underlying cause is medical in surgical in nature. This needs to be done rapidly in order to prevent any further deterioration in the patient's condition that may result in costly complications or a worsening in the condition. This topic covers a streamlined approach to such cases, with a focus on obtaining and interpreting readily available clinical data to inform decision making. Consideration will also be given to management of some common causes of acute abdominal pain.

Shock is a common presenting complaint in emergency medicine and, if not recognised and treated rapidly, can be a significant cause of additional patient morbidity and mortality. During this webinar, shock is looked at in more detail using a case-based approach. It covers the common causes of shock and how to distinguish between them using clinical signs as well which diagnostic tests may be useful in this regard. Then the webinar covers the best way to treat each of the different types of shock, including techniques that may be considered in patients not responding to standard therapy.

Recorded webinar

Not sure how to tackle the nightmare of unresolving, chronic or recurrent otitis?

This webinar covers some case examples of common emergency presentations seen in practice and how to manage them.

Do you feel out of depth when examining the ocular fundus in small animals? You are not sure how to perform fundoscopy? Would you like to feel more confident when assessing what is normal and abnormal fundus appearance?

In light of the global pandemic there doesn’t seem a better time to consider infectious disease in veterinary patients. Infectious diseases such as parvovirus, kennel cough, cat flu and leptospirosis are not uncommon cause of illness in small animals. As a veterinary profession we do our best to prevent animals with infectious diseases from entering our practices and general wards therefore mitigating the spread of disease. However, what happens when an infectious patient is not only in need of hospitalisation but also in need of intensive care? How do you optimise patient care whilst minimising the risk to other patients and veterinary staff? Would you like to learn tips and trick on how to provide appropriate barrier nursing without compromising patient care?

This course on emergency basics aims to take the stress out of dealing with emergency cases