A practical approach to rabbit and rodent surgery

Key Information

CPD Hours: 14 hours (6 hours for the recorded webinars and 8 hours for the practical day)

Course Length: See above

Course Format: Recorded lectures, case-based discussions and practical sessions

Course Programme

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02 Jul 25
£949.00

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Practical skills extremely useful as part of CPD and very relevant to day-to-day.

Course Information

Key Areas
  • Update on current techniques in anaesthesia and analgesia, including intubation techniques
  • Common surgical conditions and how to deal with them
  • Approach to dental abscesses and extractions including dental nerve blocks
  • Flank ovariohysterectomy/ovariectomy in rats and guinea pigs, abdominal castration of guinea pigs
  • Liver lobe torsion surgery
  • Partial ear canal ablation and bulla osteotomy
  • Nephrectomy
About this course

Would you like to improve your confidence when performing small mammal surgical procedures in first opinion practice?

This course of recorded webinars will be followed by an all-day practical covering a variety of surgical conditions that can pose challenging for the small mammal surgeon. The focus of the practical day will be on procedures that are performed in general practice and will be on a variety of small mammal species. These will include dental and orofacial procedures such as abscess resection, in addition to surgery of the gastrointestinal, urinary and reproductive systems.

This course consists of recorded webinars and a day of practical sessions. Please note: The online lectures are a pre-requisite for attending the onsite day (these will be available to view approximately 4 weeks prior to the practical day). These lectures allow you to learn at your own pace and can be listened to at a convenient time. This allows delegates to have more time once onsite for practical, hands-on teaching sessions. On the practical day, the tutors will be happy to answer questions relating to the online lectures, however to get through everything planned for the practical day, they will not be able to cover the content in the same level of detail as the online lectures. It is therefore imperative that all lectures are viewed in advance of attending.

Why do this course?
This course will be of interest to you if you see rabbits and other small mammal patients on a regular basis and wish to update your knowledge and improve your surgical skills.

Tutors

Vicki Baldrey, BSc BVSc DZooMed (Avian) MRCVS
Senior Lecturer in Exotic Species and Small Mammal Medicine and Surgery
The Royal Veterinary College

Joanna Hedley, BVM&S DZooMed (Reptilian) DipECZM (Herpetology) MRCVS
Senior Lecturer in Exotic Species and Small Mammal Medicine and Surgery
The Royal Veterinary College

Nadene Stapleton, BVSc MRCVS CertAVP (Zoological Medicine)
Exotics Clinician
The Royal Veterinary College

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