On-demand Course
Anaesthesia I: Essentials of Veterinary Anaesthesia
This 4-week online course is designed to provide you with the knowledge you need to help effectively and safely manage anaesthesia in your patients.
- 20 Structured CPD Points
- RACE Non-Interactive CE
- Ideal for Veterinarians
- 4 Weeks Access

COURSE FEE
AUD 327
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This course includes:
- 4-week access to your course! Sign up now, and get 14 days to complete your course!
- Course ebook: your course notes are provided in a convenient pdf ebook that you can download to your device - meaning your notes will be wherever you are!
- Extra resources: your course notes are just the beginning. We have provided extra reading materials, journal articles, and other information to enhance your learning experience.
- Tutorial Recordings: we have made available, recordings from live tutorials held during the 2024 synchronous version of this course. Simply click on the link to either view or download the MP4 recording to your computer or device!
- Quiz assessment: To help enhance your learning experience, there is a timed quiz for you to take. You can take the quiz at any time over the 6 weeks you have course access.
- CPD certificate: On successful completion of your course quiz, you can download your RACE-approved CPD certificate - so you get the CPD credit you deserve.
What you'll learn
This 4-week online course is designed to provide you with the knowledge you need to help effectively and safely manage anaesthesia in your patients. We’ll cover setting up your anaesthetic machine and circuits, selecting appropriate anaesthetic machine settings for your patient, and the pharmacology of common anaesthetic and sedative medications. What’s more, we’ll also talk about how to reduce anaesthetic risk in your patients, and will complete the course with a discussion on anaesthetic monitoring, and the management of common anaesthetic problems, such as hypotension, hypothermia, arousal during anaesthesia and much more!
This week is all about being prepared – preparing our anaesthetic drugs, our anaesthetic machine, and the equipment we need for intubation. It’s also about being prepared for unexpected complications – including apnoea, hypotension, and cardio-pulmonary arrest – focusing on equipment, medications and support techniques that will help your patient if things go wrong!
This week covers important aspects of patient assessment, identification of potential anaesthetic risk factors, and adjusting our anaesthetic protocol to minimise risk to the patient. We’ll review how to identify and correct important patient risk factors too – so your patients have the best chance of surviving their anaesthetic.
This week is all about the medications we commonly use to both induce and maintain anaesthesia, with a view to being able to more effectively monitor, predict patient response, and intervene if necessary, to help maintain safe anaesthesia.
This week covers the essentials of patient monitoring – from simple anaesthetic depth monitoring, to blood pressure, capnography, body temperature and cardiac rhythm – as well as what to do when you encounter an abnormality!
Learning Outcomes
At the conclusion of this course, the participant will have:
- A thorough knowledge of pre-anaesthetic checks, including
- Anaesthetic machine talk-testing
- Anaesthetic circuit leak-testing
- Anaesthetic fresh gas flow rates
- PIVA and TIVA anaesthetic protocols, and their influence on anaesthesia
- Pre-anaesthetic patient assessment and problem identification
- Pre-anaesthetic patient risk reduction strategies
- The assessment of anaesthetic depth
- The assessment and correction of commonly encountered anaesthetic complications, including hypotension, hypothermia, hypoventilation, and excessive anaesthetic depth
- A sound knowledge of the following
- The pharmacology of commonly used anaesthetic and analgesic medications
- The breadth of anaesthetic monitoring tools, and how to implement their use, and interpret the information they generate, including capnography, ECG (EKG), blood pressure, pulse oximetry and clinical observation of the patient.
Course Tutor
Course Reviews
"Hello Phil and thank you so much for another wonderful course! I really enjoy learning from you - your teaching technique is fabulous and the resources and notes you provide are just so informative!"
"Thanks so much for all your advice and teaching. With so much information around these days, your evidence-based clarification goes a long way! You and your work are very valued at this practice."
"Thank you for your wonderful resources and course. It is fantastic to be able to access it in such a flexible manner. I got a lot out of your notes, presentations and extras that I will refer to often in my work."
"I want to acknowledge and thank you for the tremendous amount of quality information you have imparted to us during this course."
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COURSE FEE
AUD 327
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