1920 – Practical Emergency Medicine (November 2023)

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This course will give you the knowledge and practical skills that you need to confidently manage more common medical emergencies in your practice. You’ll develop your decision-making skills as you work through clinical case examples. The ‘hands-on’ practical component in this session will enable you to practise essential techniques in a relaxed learning environment. What you’ll learn:

• Optimal management of patients with diabetic ketoacidosis
• How to identify and manage dogs with hypoadrenocorticism
• Blood transfusion therapy – how it should be done
• Enteral nutrition – why, when and how?
• How to perform pericardiocentesis safely and effectively
• Thoracic cavity disease – sampling and draining
• How to place oesophagostomy tubes, naso-oesophageal tubes, central venous catheters and thoracic drains.

Course Tutor: Nick Bexfield BVetMed PhD DSAM DipECVIM-CA AFHEA MRCVS

Course Feedback:

“I enjoyed the course content especially the opportunity to practise skills I have never used before. It has given me the confidence to use these skills”

“Presentation and course notes good quality – right amount of detail given. Good number of cadavers available for practical work which hasn’t been the case with some other courses I’ve attended. Good resources provided by the speaker. Good number of cadavers available for practical work.”

“Excellent practical sessions with tutors who were actively checking on progress and were very helpful. Good content – topics and amount. Day was well structured and went really fast! Great practical’s which are very useful.”

If you would prefer to reserve your place for 7 days whilst you arrange payment or check your commitments then click here