Key Information
CPD Hours: 16 hours
Course Length: Four weeks
Course Format: A mixture of two-hour weekly webinars (which can be viewed live and/or as recorded versions throughout the course), online case assessment exercises, supplementary reading material and tutor-moderated online discussion forums
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Course Information
Key Areas
- Interpreting tests in the clinical context – why the numbers don’t always tell the full story and the importance of clinical reasoning
- Making sense of the biochemical profile – what can it tell you and what can it not?
- – Liver and pancreatic enzymes, bilirubin, bile acids, cholesterol
- – Electrolytes, calcium, phosphate
- – Urea and creatinine
What does a positive PLI really mean? Does every patient with azotaemia have renal failure? How helpful is SDMA in answering this question?
Clinical pathology tests are a very important part of the diagnostic tools veterinary practitioners need to diagnose and manage diseases in small animal patients. They are also frequently run to screen patients in preparation for anaesthesia or in geriatric patients as part of a “health profile”. Abnormal or even normal results in a well or unwell patient can create confusion rather than clarity if they are not critically reviewed as an integral part of the clinical assessment of all data relevant to the patient and presenting problem(s).
Why do this course?
The course will enhance your ability to make sense of clinical pathology tests that are run every day in practice but can sometimes be more confusing than illuminating.
The webinars will run on the following dates from 12.30pm to 2.30pm London time.
Webinar dates:
Wednesday 15th April
Wednesday 22nd April
Wednesday 29th April
Wednesday 6th May
Tutors
David Church, BVSc PhD MACVSc FHEA MRCVS
Professor of Small Animal Studies
The Royal Veterinary College
Emma Holmes, BVetMed MVetMed DipACVP (clinpath) FHEA MRCVS
Clinical Pathologist II, IDEXX Laboratories Ltd
Jill Maddison, BVSc DipVetClinStud PhD FACVSc SFHEA MRCVS
Professor of General Practice
The Royal Veterinary College