• Join BVetMed DZooMed MRCVS Molly Varga for three 2-hour online sessions
• Comprehensive notes to download
• Self-assessment quizzes to ‘release’ your 8 hours CPD certification (don’t worry, you can take them more than once if you don’t quite hit the mark first time)
• A whole year’s access to recorded sessions for reviewing key points
• Superb value for money – learn without travelling
• Watch the recordings on any device

Programme

Pre-operative assessment and stabilisation

This session will cover how a patient is assessed and stabilised prior to anaesthesia. Applicable both to elective and emergent patients, clinical parameters, baseline measurements and pre-GA blood work will be considered in detail. Following on from this, methods of stabilisation such as fluid therapy, supported nutrition and analgesia will be covered.

What you’ll learn:

• How to gather accurate baseline clinical data
• How to provide fluid therapy and calculations for volumes to be administered.
• How to provide supported nutrition and how to calculate calorie requirements
• Recognise the signs of pain in rabbits

Anaesthesia- drugs and monitoring

This session will cover the drugs commonly used to anaesthetise rabbits. We will also look at methods of securing the airway as well as anaesthetic monitoring. The pros and cons of various electronic monitoring methods will be considered.

What you’ll learn:

• Drugs commonly used in rabbit anaesthetics
• Changes to clinical parameters caused by common anaesthetic drugs
• Limitations of the monitoring equipment
• When intervention is required during an anaesthetic when clinical parameters vary from what is expected

Critical Care- repeat evaluations, trends and nursing care plans

This session will cover care of critically ill in-patients. It will include repeat monitoring, and trends expected during recovery or deterioration. The application of some of the diagnostic and monitoring methods already discussed to long term patients will be addressed. The application of nursing care plans to our rabbit patients will be considered.

What you’ll learn:

• How familiar methods of gaining clinical data and monitoring can be applied to your long term patients
• How to evaluate whether a rabbit patient is improving or deteriorating in terms of various functions.
• Be confident in constructing appropriate nursing care plans for a variety of rabbit patients.

The price includes all 3 sessions, notes and quiz – 8 hours of CPD

*No traffic jams, accommodation hassles, pet or childcare, rota clashes, locum fees ……….. just great CPD and a valuable ongoing resource.

Course Feedback:

“This is the second online Mini Series I have done, and I have found both so convenient and flexible as they allow me to work around my small children.”

“I enjoyed it and enjoyed being able to do at my own pace. It’s much easier to do the webinars when I have quiet time at home or in practice.”