AD142 – Advance25 – Feline Medicine

Learn in your own time with this fully flexible Advance25TM Course. 

Enjoy unlimited access to your course materials for a full 12 months. Get the help you need to deal effectively with your feline patients and get better outcomes.

Complete the course and get your CPD / CE Certificate for 25 Hours of learning.

Use your new knowledge and skills straight away in your practice.
Revisit your course materials at any time during your 12 months’ access to refresh your knowledge whenever you have a relevant patient.

Session 1: Infectious disease

Session A: FIP – a new age

What have we learnt and what does the future hold?
This session will cover the novel therapies for treatment of FIP available around the world and look to the future of treatment of this once fatal disease.

FIV and FeLV: are these diseases still around?

In general, the prevalence of retroviral infections has reduced, but it is still diagnosed and causes significant clinical disease. This session will look at diagnostic pitfalls and interpreting those in house test results.

Session 2: Haematology

Session A: Anaemia: practical approach

Anaemia is not an uncommon problem but can be costly and involved to fully diagnose. Let’s look at a pragmatic approach.

Session B: Blood transfusion in cats

Some countries have blood banks, others need to find a suitable donor. This session covers blood typing, transfusion medicine and management of complications.

Session 3: Respiratory

Session A: Dyspnoeic cats: don’t panic

Dyspnoea is a scary presentation! Learn initial management and POCUS skills to help you feel comfortable with these cases.

Session B: Coughing in cats: always asthma?

Coughing has a number of causes, including lower airway disease and it can be challenging to treat, but also satisfying. This session covers use of inhalers as well as other ways of managing coughing.

Session 4: Endocrinology

Session A: Has insulin had its day? Latest treatments for diabetes mellitus

Recent exciting developments have seen oral treatments available for feline diabetes. Let’s discuss how the novel medications work and what insulin to use if they don’t.

Session B: Hyperthyroidism and comorbidities: how to juggle different diagnoses

Many cats with hyperthyroidism, also have chronic kidney disease, osteoarthritis and other comorbidities. Learn how to balance management.

Session 5: Gastroenterology 

Session A: Chronic vomiting: is it just hairballs?

Some people accept vomiting occasionally as normal, but is it? Review causes of vomiting in cats.

Session B: Chronic diarrhoea: squitty kitties and how to treat them

IBD, PLE, chronic enteropathy, what is in a name? Let’s discuss causes of chronic diarrhoea in cats

Session 6: Urology

Session A: FLUTD: have we made progress with this frustrating disease?

Idiopathic cystitis is frustrating to treat, but are we missing some cats with urolithiasis as a cause? This session will review what we know about FIC and other causes of lower urinary tract disease.

Session B: Urinary tract infections: when to treat and when to wait

Reducing prescription of antibiotics is important, and cats rarely get UTIs don’t they? Let’s discuss.

What do Vets Say About Advance25 Courses?

‘Excellent from start to finish’

‘Very good online format experience, great topics’

‘The forum was brilliant, the speakers were all very engaged and put a lot of effort into answering our questions.’

‘Feline diabetes, thyroid and hypothyroid diseases lectures were great!’

‘Really helpful, thorough and up to date information – it’s had a direct positive impact on my clinical practice – thanks!’

‘Very informative and well presented, really helpful. I feel more informed to treat many types of medical case. I mainly read others questions in the forum and found this really interesting and helpful’

Tutor

Samantha Taylor BVetMed(Hons), CertSAM, DipECVIM-CA, MANZCVS, FRCVS
RCVS Recognised Specialist in Feline Medicine

Any Questions? Call us now on 0151 328 0444