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 European & RCVS Veterinary Specialist in Small Animal Internal Medicine