• Join Zoë Halfacree MA VetMB CertVDI CertSAS FHEA DipECVS MRCVS and Nicola Kulendra BVetMed (Hons) MVetMed CertVDI DipECVS MRCVS for three 2-hour online sessions
• Comprehensive notes to downloaded
• 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 your iPad!
• This Mini Series was originally broadcast in August 2017.

Programme

Managing a GDV in Practice

This session will discuss ways to optimize outcome for your GDV cases including stabilization tips, surgical technique and post-operative management. Prognostic factors and merits of prophylactic gastropexy are discussed.

What you’ll learn:

• Understand fluid resuscitation techniques
• Discuss advantages and disadvantages of orogastric intubation and gastric trocharisation
• Critically evaluate radiographs to differentiate gastric dilatation from GDV
• Discuss surgical principles and tips to optimize outcome
• Discuss the merits of prophylactic gastropexy

Intestinal Surgery – tips and tricks

This session will allow you to optimise your surgical decision making, techniques and management for acute surgical diseases of the small and large intestine.

What you’ll learn:

• Improve your interpretation of radiographs and ultrasonography for obstructive lesions of the small and large intestine and gastrointestinal perforation
• Intraoperative decision making for management of simple and linear foreign bodies, duodenal ulceration, intussusception and intestinal torsion
• Pros and cons of enteroplication will be discussed
• Optimise your post-operative care of patients following gastrointestinal surgery

How to manage a Haemoabdomen

This session will discuss diagnosis and management of haemoabdomen. Considerations about prognosis in a dog with a ruptured splenic mass will be addressed in addition to tips for optimizing splenectomy technique. Other causes of haemoabdomen and methods of surgical management will be addressed.

What you’ll learn:

• Optimise patient stabilization prior to surgery for management of haemoabdomen
• A rational approach to staging investigations and prognostic assessment prior to surgery will be discussed
• Tips and tricks for improving splenectomy technique will be covered, in addition to management of haemorrhage from other sites