Anaesthesia and Analgesia in the Emergency and Critical Patient
- Veterinarians
- April 18, 2022
- RACE-approved for 20 CE credits
Get the latest updates in managing anaesthesia and analgesia in the emergency and critical patient with this interactive and tutor guided course for Veterinarians.
What you'll learn
Providing safe and effective analgesia or anaesthesia to your critically unwell patients involves consideration of drug pharmacology, as well as patient physiology. Loaded with practical advice, literature reviews and user-friendly protocols, this four (4) week course will explore these aspects to help provide a sound platform for providing safe and effective analgesia and anaesthesia to both emergency patients, and those with critical illness.
Week 1: Pharmacology of the Critical Patient
This week we will look at critical aspects of drug pharmacology in patients with emergency or critical illness. Far from an abstract look at how drugs are metabolized, we’ll look at how patients’ physiology in real illnesses causes your patients to respond to drug administration differently – and how to avoid potential problems in drug administration. We will also take a look at the common anaesthetic and analgesic drugs, and how they work, so we can begin to piece together our analgesic and anaesthetic plan!
Week 2: Analgesia
This week is all about analgesia provision in the critical patient, including a guide on what drugs to use, what drugs to avoid, the use of local and regional anaesthesia/analgesia and the concept of multi-modal analgesia, and continuous drug infusions – and how to make them simple, and how to manipulate your drug selection to minimise side effects, and optimise analgesia. This is all prefaced by a look at how pain is generated and perceived in patients, and how to use pain management scales to identify when your critically ill patients are painful – and what happens if you ignore pain signals in your patients!
Week 3: Anaesthesia
Anaesthesia in critically unwell patients can be challenging. Add to this that there is sometimes confusion about what constitutes a “safe” anaesthetic drug or protocol, and the challenge can become a significant one – with your patient’s life in your hands. This week we’ll decode the mysteries of the most commonly used anaesthetic drugs, how they work, give you essential information on what they actually do to your patients – and how to optimise their use. We’ll also develop a shortlist of anaesthetic protocols for patients with diseases ranging from caesarean, cardiac disease, chronic renal failure, heart disease, acute respiratory distress and much more!
Week 4: Nightmare Anaesthetics!
You plan your anaesthetic carefully, prepare the patient as well as possible – but thing’s just don’t go right… the patient wakes up, or goes too deep, blood pressure falls, monitors won’t work, the patient won’t breathe – or breathes too much! All of this while you are trying to do surgery, or something else with the patient! This week, we will dissect these nightmares, find out the causes, and offer useful suggestions on dealing with them!
Course Tutor
BVSc MVS PG Cert Vet Stud MACVSc (Vet. Emergency and Critical Care; Medicine of Dogs)
Course Features:
- RACE-approved for 20 CE credits
- Graded Course Assessment
- Discussion Forums
- Live Online Weekly Tutorials
- Comprehensive Learning Resources
- Extra Course Resources
- Protocols For Your Practice
Course Fee:
AUD 550
Get an exclusive printed and bound course book at an additional fee of AUD 40. Grab the print book now!
Live Weekly Tutorials
The 4-week course starts on April 18, 2022 with live tutorials by Dr Philip Judge on Mondays at 19:30 AEST.
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20 CE Credits
This course is ideal for Veterinarians and is RACE-approved for 20 CE credits!
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Improving Anaesthetic Safety for the Small Animal Patient with Kidney Disease
Kidney disease is relatively common in small animals – and frequently, patients with kidney dysfunction require anaesthesia for procedures including dental therapy, removal of neoplastic lesions, and emergency surgery following trauma.
Because anaesthesia carries with it the risk of hypotension, it can potentially add significant risk to a patient with pre-existing kidney compromise.
This free ebook provides a description of the major considerations in patients with kidney disease facing anaesthesia – and how to approach the anaesthetic safely and effectively.
Course Reviews
Get the latest updates on how to best treat Anaesthesia and Analgesia in the Emergency and Critical Patient!
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