AD153 Advance25 Feline Medicine (Instalments)

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.

This program has been RACE approved for 12 credits of continuing education credit in jurisdictions that recognize RACE approval.

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.

Session B: 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 this Course?

‘Every thing was useful – All! Forum, lectures, notes with supplementing literatures.’

‘Every single webinar had some new and interesting topics. The best for me was the sacroccocygeal block for urethral obstruction.’

‘Good course and very good speaker. Re-affirming that most of what I was doing was correct. Was also useful to find out about some of the newer medications/information available.’

‘Useful Updates e.g. FIP treatment, revision/helpful confirmation I’m not out of date with other things, and useful links to give clients.’

‘Good all-round refresher course.’

‘Helping to make clinical decision on individual cases. Updated information about FIP, approach to LUTD.’

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

This program has been RACE approved for 12 credits of continuing education credit in jurisdictions that recognize RACE approval.