Key Information
CPD Hours: 12 hours
Course Length: Four weeks
Course Format: A mixture of one hour weekly webinars (which can be viewed live and/or as recorded versions throughout the course), tasks for making and staining bloods smears and setting up the microscope with feedback from the tutors, computer based blood smear examinations with online case assessments, supplementary reading material and tutor-moderated online discussion forums.
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New in 2018
Course Information
Key Areas
- Preparation of high quality blood smears (that can be examined efficiently)
- - Advanced techniques of blood smearing
- - Top tips for using Diff-Quik type stains, alternative staining options
- Optimal microscope setup and maintenance/care
- Systematic approach to the examination of a blood smear
- - Assessment of smears for platelet clumping and estimating platelet concentration
- - How to recognize regenerative anaemia in <10 seconds
- - Key red blood cell morphological changes
- - White blood cell morphology and differential counts
- - Neutrophil left shift and toxicity (what the machines can’t recognize)
- In-house vs labs
- - Strengths and weaknesses of in-house analysers
- - Pros and cons of sending blood samples to the external lab
- - Optimising the communication with the external laboratory
- Specific nursing care for the haematological patients
This course has been replaced by: https://cpd.rvc.ac.uk/cpd-courses/haematology-and-cytology-for-veterinary-nurses
Would you like to be able to provide invaluable nurse support to cases that require haematologic assessment in your practice?
Blood smear examination is essential for the reliable and safe use of in-house haematology analyzers in the veterinary practice. Veterinary nurses can provide invaluable benefit to the veterinary practice by being able to perform an efficient blood smear examination, which can validate the in-house analysis and detect key abnormalities (that the machines can’t), and flag potential need for expert review.
This course is aiming to help veterinary nurses to develop the necessary skills to prepare high quality blood smears, perform optimal staining, to best setup the microscope for blood smear examination, and to carry out a systematic, highly efficient (3-5 min) blood smear examination.
Why do this course?
You will develop invaluable skills that will maximize the value of haematological assessments in your patients as well as an understanding the pros and cons of the in-house vs external lab. Furthermore you will explore specific nursing considerations for haematological patients.
The webinars will run on the following dates from 12.00pm to 2.00pm GMT including a 30 minute registration and familiarisation period prior to the commencement of the lecture.
Webinar dates:
Monday 11th June
Monday 18th June
Monday 25th June
Monday 2nd July
Tutors
Barbara Glanemann, DrMedVet DipECVIM PGDipVetEd FHEA MRCVS
Associate Professor in Small Animal Medicine
The Royal Veterinary College
Balazs Szladovits, DVM DipACVP PGDipVetEd MRCVS
Associate Professor in Clinical Pathology
The Royal Veterinary College
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