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RECOVER BLS and ALS Rescuer Webinar Plus: ECC skills – the next steps Practical POCUS: Fundamentals of Local anaesthetic techniques
Certification Workshop Monday 1st June to Sunday 12th July Point-of-care Ultrasound Tuesday 20th October
Thursday 12th March or Thursday 21st May Do you find most ECC CPD a bit basic? Are you looking for more Tuesday 9th June Are you sure we can block that? How do you do it?!
advanced updates in this exciting field?
Learn order out of chaos, learn how to run cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Are you keen to use or start using point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) in This course aims to teach participants how to implement local
The RVC’s ECC team, the biggest ECC team in Europe, has combined anaesthesia techniques on a day-to-day basis in veterinary practice. The
How do we best treat animals in cardiopulmonary arrest? Evidence-based their knowledge to offer you an opportunity to learn about specific ECC managing your emergency patients? Do you use POCUS but lack course is designed to cover information relevant for both vets and nurses
veterinary CPR guidelines, published by the RECOVER Initiative, aimed topics in greater depth including transfusion medicine, CPR, acute kidney confidence in your practical skills? and will consist of pre-recorded online lectures and an onsite practical day.
at maximizing patient survival after cardiopulmonary arrest, led to the injury, sepsis, blood gas analysis and nutrition. Each topic has been This course will include online lectures and a 4-hour hands-on practical
official veterinary CPR certification process approved by the American chosen as it is a particular interest for the specialist and in an area that developed and delivered by leaders in the field of veterinary POCUS. The online material should be viewed prior to attending the practical day.
College of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care. During this course is relevant to both emergency and general practice. The course is aimed Through practical, supervised hands-on training using live dogs, everyone We encourage vets and nurses from the same practice to attend the
participants will be taught the concepts and techniques of RECOVER at vets who have either attained Advanced Practitioner status in ECC, will have the opportunity to learn and practice all of the common veterinary course so that a coordinated approach to analgesia in their practice can
Basic Life Support (BLS) and Advanced Life Support (ALS). The course anaesthesia or internal medicine, who are studying for the CertAVP ECC POCUS techniques currently used to assess the abdomen, pleural space, be developed. Relevant legislation will be covered.
will conclude with a practical assessment in both areas resulting in C modules or those working predominantly in emergency and/or critical lung, and heart. Phantoms training models will be used to demonstrate Course details
certification as a RECOVER Certified Rescuer upon passing. This course care practice. and practice ultrasound guided vascular access.
is suitable for vets and veterinary nurses. Course type: Webinars and onsite CPD hours: 12
You can also purchase individual webinars from this course to attend live. Course details
Prerequisite: Completion of the online RECOVER BLS and ALS at Please note that buying webinars separately does not grant access to the Course length: 1 day onsite and 4 Course fee: Vet and nurse team:
recoverinitiative.org is required to attend this workshop. full course materials. Course type: Webinars and onsite CPD hours: 9 hours online £1,248; Vet only: £849;
Further dates may become available depending on demand. Course length: 4 hours onsite and 5 Course fee: £649 Nurse only: £499
Course details hours online Relevant to CertAVP module(s): C-VA.1
Course details Course type: Webinar Plus Course fee: Webinar Plus: £649; Tutors
Course type: Onsite CPD hours: 8 Course length: 6 weeks Webinars only: £75 per webinar or Soren Boysen DVM DipACVECC, Professor of Veterinary Emergency Tutors
Course length: 1 day Course fee: £599 CPD hours: Up to 24 £425 for all 6 and Critical Care, University of Calgary Lisa Angell VTS (Anaesthesia/Analgesia) PGCertVetEd RVN,
Head Anaesthesia Nurse, RVC
Tutors Relevant to CertAVP module(s): C-ECC.1, 2 and 3, C-VA.1 and 3, C-SAM.9 Laura Cole BA VetMB PGCertVetEd CertAVP(ECC) DipACVECC Sandra Sanchis Mora Lda Vet MVetMed PhD DipECVAA PGCertVetEd
DipECVECC MRCVS, Lecturer in Emergency and Critical Care, RVC
Dominic Barfield BSc BVSc MVetMed DipACVECC DipECVECC FHEA Tutors Simon Cook BVSc MVetMed DipACVECC DipECVECC FHEA MRCVS, FHEA MRCVS, Anaesthesia Specialist, Blaise Referrals
MRCVS, Associate Professor in Emergency and Critical Care, RVC Dominic Barfield BSc BVSc MVetMed DipACVECC DipECVECC FHEA Senior Lecturer in Emergency and Critical Care, RVC Proudly supported by IMV and Vygon Vet
Dave Beeston BVetMed MVetMed PGDipVCP DipACVECC MRCVS, Associate Professor in Emergency and Critical Care, RVC Erica Tinson BSc BVSc MVS DipACVECC FHEA MRCVS,
DipECVECC MRCVS, Emergency and Critical Care Clinician, Willows Lecturer in Emergency and Critical Care, RVC
Veterinary Centre and Referral Service Dan Chan DVM DipACVECC DipECVECC DipACVN FHEA MRCVS,
Professor of Emergency and Critical Care and Clinical Nutrition, RVC
Webinar Plus: Pain management in Stefano Cortellini DVM MVetMed DipACVECC DipECVECC MRCVS, Emergency patient online The trauma patient – a global approach
Senior Lecturer in Emergency and Critical Care, RVC
small animals Tom Greensmith BVetMed MVetMed DipACVECC MRCVS, Monday 7th September to case management
Senior Lecturer in Small Animal Emergency and Critical Care, RVC to Sunday 18th October Tuesday 1st December
Monday 27th April to Sunday 24th May
Karen Humm MA VetMB MSc CertVA DipACVECC DipECVECC FHEA Emergencies are common in all practices, not just after hours!
Many of the patients you see every day in practice will be in pain. Are you MRCVS, Professor in Transfusion Medicine and Emergency and Critical Emergency cases can be some of the most fun and rewarding patients Does the trauma patient quicken your pulse? Is your management of
doing the best for them? Would you like to improve your ability to assess Care, RVC seen in veterinary practice. However, they can also be some of the more orthopaedic injury disjointed? Want to learn how to POCUS your efforts
and treat pain? Erica Tinson BSc BVSc MVS MVSc DipACVECC MRCVS, challenging and stressful patients to treat. most effectively?
This course aims to equip participants with a thorough knowledge of Lecturer in Emergency and Critical Care, RVC During this course you will learn diagnostic and therapeutic approaches Trauma patients are frequently encountered in general practice, with the
complex and often multifaceted nature of injury presenting challenges.
small animal pain, its deleterious effects on patients and approaches to its to common emergency and trauma cases to increase your confidence and The ‘golden hour’ of trauma management is key – this course will help you
assessment. The course will then explore the treatment options available reduce your stress levels. to seize the opportunity to maximise patient outcomes.
for both practice and home use together with their advantages and Enhance your patient assessment, diagnostic techniques and clinical
disadvantages. Real case examples will be used to reinforce the practical Course details
nature of pain medicine. Course type: e-CPD CPD hours: Up to 42 interventions with guidance from clinicians in emergency and critical
care, diagnostic imaging, orthopaedic and soft tissue surgery. This
Course details Course length: 6 weeks Course fee: £729 collaborative course of online lectures followed by an all-day practical will
Course type: Webinar Plus CPD hours: Up to 16 Relevant to CertAVP module(s): C-ECC.1, 2 and 3, C-VA.3 allow you to apply a holistic approach to the trauma patient.
Course length: 4 weeks Course fee: £429 Tutors Course details
Relevant to CertAVP module(s): C-VA.3 Dominic Barfield BSc BVSc MVetMed DipACVECC DipECVECC FHEA Course type: Webinars and onsite CPD hours: 16
MRCVS, Associate Professor in Emergency and Critical Care, RVC Course length: 1 day onsite and Course fee: £1,099
Tutors Dan Chan DVM DipACVECC DipECVECC DipACVN FHEA MRCVS, 8 hours online
Aoife Ryan BVetMed DipECVAA MRCVS, Lecturer in Veterinary Professor of Emergency and Critical Care and Clinical Nutrition, RVC Tutors
Anaesthesia and Analgesia, RVC Laura Cole BA VetMB PGCertVetEd CertAVP(ECC) DipACVECC
Johanna Kaartinen Msc PhD DipECVAA FHEA MRCVS, Lecturer in DipECVECC MRCVS, Lecturer in Emergency and Critical Care, RVC Laura Cole BA VetMB PGCertVetEd CertAVP(ECC) DipACVECC
Veterinary Anaesthesia and Analgesia, RVC Simon Cook BVSc MVetMed DipACVECC DipECVECC FHEA MRCVS, DipECVECC MRCVS, Lecturer in Emergency and Critical Care, RVC
Carolina Palacios Jimenez DVM CertVA PGCertVetEd PhD DipECVAA Senior Lecturer in Emergency and Critical Care, RVC Anna Frykfors von Hekkel BVetMed PGDipVCP MVetMed DipECVS
MRCVS, Senior Lecturer in Veterinary Anaesthesia and Analgesia, RVC Stefano Cortellini DVM MVetMed DipACVECC DipECVECC MRCVS, MRCVS, Lecturer in Small Animal Surgery, RVC
Iris Veen DVM DipECVAA MRCVS, Lecturer in Veterinary Anaesthesia Dotty, Tortoiseshell Senior Lecturer in Emergency and Critical Care, RVC Thom Watton BSc BVetMed MVetMed MRCVS, RCVS and EBVS®
and Analgesia, RVC European Specialist in Veterinary Diagnostic Imaging, Consultant
Karen Humm MA VetMB MSc CertVA DipACVECC DipECVECC FHEA Radiologist
MRCVS, Professor in Transfusion Medicine and ECC, RVC
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