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Course Information
Key Areas
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This is a two-day onsite course designed for general practitioners. The course consists of lectures followed by practicals to increase your confidence in your approach to management of acute presentations of respiratory and gastrointestinal clinical signs. During each day of the course patient assessment and stabilisation as well as diagnostic imaging investigation will be discussed. This will be followed by appropriate practical sessions to consolidate learning.
Key areas:
Lectures
• The dyspnoeic patient
• The acute abdomen
• Emergency imaging
Practical sessions
• Pleural drain placement
• Tracheostomy
• T-FAST ultrasound
• Abdomenocentesis (diagnostic peritoneal lavage)
• Gastric decompression
• Passing oesophageal tubes
• Placing central lines
• A-FAST ultrasound
Tutors
Dominic Barfield, BSc BVSc MVetMed DipACVECC DipECVECC FHEA MRCVS
Associate Professor in Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care
The Royal Veterinary College
Pete Mantis, DVM DipECVDI PhD FHEA FRCVS
Head of Diagnostic Imaging, Dick White Referrals
Honorary Associate Professor of Diagnostic Imaging, Nottingham University