• Join Hayley Chidlow BVSc DipACVIM MRCVS Specialist in Equine Medicine for three 2-hour sessions!
• Essential practical tips from our expert tutor
• 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 traffic jams or rota hassles
• Watch the live sessions or recordings on your iPad!

Programme

This session will cover the common infectious diseases of the equine respiratory tract, including viral respiratory disease, Strangles, and bacterial pneumonia and pleuropneumonia. The common clinical signs of these diseases and how they vary depending on the type of infection will be discussed. Diagnostic techniques including infectious disease testing and diagnostic imaging will be covered. Treatment of the common infectious respiratory diseases will be reviewed, including a focus on biosecurity and outbreak control of contagious diseases.

• Clinical signs of infectious respiratory diseases including viral respiratory disease, Strangles, bacterial pneumonia including Rhodococcus equi in foals, and pleuropneumonia
• Diagnostic approach in cases where infectious respiratory disease is suspected, including which samples to obtain and the laboratory techniques available for pathogen testing
• The use of diagnostic imaging modalities in diagnosis and treatment monitoring
  How to implement biosecurity measures in cases of suspected or confirmed contagious respiratory disease
• ASA scale
• Treatment options for infectious respiratory diseases, including discussion of the rational approach to antimicrobial usage

Non-Infectious Lower Respiratory Tract Disease

This session will cover the approach to non-infectious diseases of the lower respiratory tract, with a particular focus on Equine Asthma, the most common respiratory disease affecting adult horses. The current understanding of Equine Asthma, encompassing the previous definitions of Inflammatory Airway Disease and Recurrent Airway Obstruction, will be reviewed, along with diagnostic techniques available for confirmation of disease. The approach to treatment including environmental and management changes and pharmaceutical interventions will be discussed. The session will also cover Exercise-Induced Pulmonary Haemorrhage and the approach to diagnosis and treatment of this condition.

• The current understanding of equine asthma, including how the previous definitions of Inflammatory Airway Disease and Recurrent Airway Obstruction have progressed to current definitions of mild-moderate and severe equine asthma
• Approach to the diagnosis of equine asthma cases in practice, including making a provisional diagnosis using history and clinical signs, when to perform additional diagnostics, and what diagnostic techniques are available
• How to develop a treatment plan for equine asthma including environmental and management changes, as well as pharmaceutical options that are available
• How to approach diagnosis of exercise-induced pulmonary haemorrhage, including identification of EIPH in horses without epistaxis
• Discuss the effect of EIPH on athletic performance and associated welfare considerations
• Discuss whether pharmaceutical or other interventions are effective in reducing the incidence of EIPH

Upper Respiratory Tract Disease

This session will review conditions of the upper respiratory tract, including diseases of the nasal passages, paranasal sinuses, pharynx, larynx, soft and hard palate, and guttural pouches. The presenting clinical signs and how they differ from diseases of the lower respiratory tract will be discussed, along with the approach to diagnosis. An overview of treatment options available for these conditions will also be reviewed.

• The common problems affecting the upper respiratory tract including both congenital and acquired disease
• The clinical signs associated with these conditions, including where relevant the effect on athletic performance and survival
• How to approach diagnosis of upper respiratory tract disease, including indications for dynamic endoscopy
• Treatment options available for upper respiratory tract disease and potential complications of both treated and untreated disease

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.

*overseas customers will not be charged VAT