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Emergency care and anaesthesia RVC CPD 2023 RVC CPD 2023 Emergency care and anaesthesia

Emergency patient online The trauma patient – a global approach to Local anaesthetic techniques Webinar Plus: Management of the small
case management animal trauma patient: Part 2

Monday 11th September NEW Monday 30th October
to Sunday 22nd October Wednesday 27th September Thursday 19th October to Sunday 26th November

Emergencies are common in all practices, not just after hours! Does the trauma patient quicken your pulse? Is your management of Are you sure we can block that? How do you do it?! Do you worry about how to manage patients with multipletraumatic
orthopaedic injury disjointed? Want to learn how to POCUS your efforts injuries and serious wounds? Do traumatic eye injuries terrify you and the
Emergency cases can be some of the most fun and rewarding patients most effectively? This course aims to teach participants how to implement local anaesthesia thought of penetrating wounds to the neck or thorax fill you with dread?
seen in veterinary practice. However, they can also be some of the more techniques on a day-to-day basis in veterinary practice. The course is
challenging and stressful patients to treat. Trauma patients are frequently encountered in general practice, with the designed to cover information relevant for both vets and nurses and will If so then this course will help you learn tips to cope with these complex
complex and often multifaceted nature of injury presenting challenges for the consist of pre-recorded online lectures and an on-site practical day. patients and manage high-risk anaesthetics more safely. This course, the
Why do this course? veterinary surgeon. The ‘golden hour’ of trauma management is key – this The online material should be viewed prior to attending the practical day. second of a two-part series, can be taken independently to the first
You will learn diagnostic and therapeutic approaches to common course will help you to seize the opportunity to maximise patient outcomes. We encourage vets and nurses from the same practice to attend the trauma management or as a follow-on course.
emergency and trauma cases to increase your confidence and reduce Benefit from multi-disciplinary insights from the only level one trauma centre course so that a coordinated approach to analgesia in their practice can
your stress levels. Why do this course?
outside of North America. Enhance your patient assessment, diagnostic be developed. Relevant legislation will be covered.
Key areas techniques and clinical interventions with guidance from clinicians in Why do this course? The course aims to equip you with the tools that are required to manage
the trauma patient and so increase your confidence and reduce your
• The “shocked” patient emergency and critical care, diagnostic imaging, orthopaedic and soft tissue This course will be useful for those who want to start with the basic local stress! This course will be excellent for anyone in general practice or vets
• The approach to and stabilisation of the trauma patient surgery. This collaborative course of online lectures followed by an all-day anaesthesia techniques but also for those who want to improve/learn more working in emergency practices. It will also be useful for vets with a
• The dyspnoeic emergency – assessment and stabilisation practical will allow you to apply a holistic approach to the trauma patient. advanced techniques. specific interest in surgery, anaesthesia and ophthalmology or studying
• A rational approach to fluid therapy in the emergency patient Why do this course? for advanced practitioner certificates.
• The acute kidney injury patient This course will improve your confidence in managing complex trauma Key areas
• The “acute” abdomen cases. It will allow you to advance your skills in multiple disciplines Lectures (pre-recorded and available for viewing prior to the course) Key areas
• Using point of care ultrasound (POCUS) in emergency patients required of trauma patients to ultimately maximise patient outcomes. • Clinical pharmacology of local anaesthetic drugs • Wound management
• Bleeding emergencies and transfusion therapy • Indications and practical techniques for local anaesthesia • Anaesthesia of the multiple-trauma patient
• Nutritional support of hospitalised patients Key areas • Additional analgesia techniques • Thoracic and neck trauma patients – initial stabilisation, imaging,
• Sepsis and new advances in management of critically ill patients Preparatory lectures will focus on the following areas: Practical sessions surgical management and post-operative care
• Thoracic trauma: Stabilisation of dyspnoeic patient, point of care • Ophthalmologic trauma including diagnosis, stabilisation and
Previous participants have commented… ultrasound (POCUS), thoracocentesis and thoracostomy tube • Epidurals/spinal anaesthesia definitive treatment
“By doing this course I have improved my knowledge in each topic and placement, evaluation of thoracic radiographs, management of thoracic • Head/dental blocks
learnt something new every single week.” • Hindlimb and forelimb blocks Previous participants have commented…
wall and diaphragmatic injury
“I felt that I learned a lot from some of the best in the ECC field.” • Abdominal trauma: Stabilisation of haemoabdomen and uroabdomen, Previous participants have commented… “The tutors were excellent and the quality and depth of the lectures
was great.”
POCUS, abdominocentesis and abdominal drain placement, evaluation “Very good course. I feel more confident to use local anaesthesia
Course details of abdominal radiographs and retrograde urethrocystography, approaches to pain relief for the surgeries I’m involved in.” Course details
Course type: e-CPD management of body wall and urinary tract injury Course type: Webinar Plus
Course format: An intensive tutor-moderated learning experience. • Musculoskeletal trauma: Accurate patient assessment, acquisition and Course details Course format: A mixture of pre-recorded weekly webinars (which
Resources include online presentations, electronic course notes, videos, evaluation of orthopaedic radiographs, pre-surgical management of Course type: Recorded webinars and onsite can be viewed throughout the course), a live Q&A session each week
case assessments, self-assessment quizzes and discussion forums in open fractures, reducing luxations, open wound management Course format: Practical sessions using cadaver material, case-based with the tutors, self-assessment quizzes, case discussions,
which participants review and discuss cases with their colleagues and discussions and recorded webinars to be viewed before the onsite course supplementary reading material and tutor-moderated online discussion
the tutor Lectures will be complemented by on-site practical training including Course length: 1 day and 4 hours of webinars forums
Course length: 6 weeks imaging, emergency procedures and relevant surgical procedures CPD hours: Up to 12 Course length: 4 weeks
CPD hours: Up to 42 Course details Relevant to CertAVP module: Small Animal Anaesthesia and CPD hours: Up to 16
Relevant to CertAVP modules: Emergency and Critical Care Course type: Recorded webinars and onsite Analgesia (C-VA.1) Relevant to CertAVP modules: Emergency and Critical Care
(C-ECC.1, 2 and 3), Critical Care and Analgesia (C-VA.3) Course format: Practical sessions using live dogs and cadaver material Course fee: Vet and nurse team: £1198; Vet only: £799; (C-ECC.2 and 3), Soft Tissue Surgery (C-SAS.2 and C-SAS.3),
Course fee: £729 Nurse only: £449
and recorded webinars to be viewed before the onsite course Small Animal Anaesthesia and Analgesia (C-VA.1 and C-VA.3)
Tutors Course length: 1 day and 5 hours of webinar viewing Tutors Course fee: £399 or £748 for both parts 1 and 2
Dominic Barfield BSc BVSc MVetMed DipACVECC DipECVECC CPD hours: Up to 13 Lisa Angell VTS (Anaesthesia/Analgesia) PGCertVetEd RVN, Head Tutors
FHEA MRCVS, Senior Lecturer in Veterinary Emergency and Critical Course fee: £949 Anaesthesia Nurse, RVC Carolina Palacios Jimenez DVM CertVA PGCertVetEd PhD
Care, RVC Tutors Sandra Sanchis Mora DVM MVetMed DipECVAA PhD PGCertVetEd DipECVAA MRCVS, Lecturer in Veterinary Anaesthesia and Analgesia,
Dan Chan DVM DipACVECC DipECVECC DipACVN FHEA MRCVS, Laura Cole BA VetMB PGCertVetEd CertAVP(ECC) DipACVECC FHEA MRCVS, Clinical Anaesthetist, Southfields Veterinary Specialists RVC
Professor of Emergency Critical Care Medicine and Clinical Nutrition, DipECVECC MRCVS, Lecturer in Small Animal Emergency and Critical Proudly supported by Lynda Rutherford BVM&S MVetMed DipECVS PGCertVetEd FHEA
RVC Care, RVC MRCVS, Senior Lecturer in Small Animal Surgery, RVC
Karen Humm MA VetMB MSc CertVA DipACVECC DipECVECC Anna Frykfors von Hekkel BVetMed MVetMed PGDipVCP DipECVS Roser Tetas Pont LV MSc DipECVO PGCertVetEd FHEA MRCVS,
FHEA MRCVS, Associate Professor in Transfusion Medicine and ECC, MRCVS, Lecturer in Small Animal Surgery, RVC Senior Lecturer in Veterinary Ophthalmology, RVC
RVC
Thom Watton BSc BVetMed MVetMed MRCVS, Staff Clinician in Small
Animal Diagnostic Imaging, RVC

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