Essentials of Veterinary Anaesthesia
Learn how to effectively and safely manage anaesthesia in your small animal patients with this online and interactive course for Vet Nurses/Technicians.
- Vet Nurse/Tech
- Starts February 20, 2023
- 4 Weeks
- RACE-approval pending (20 Hours)
This course includes:
- Live Online Weekly Tutorials
- Access to Tutorial Recordings
- 20 CPD Points (RACE-approval pending)
- Protocols For Your Practice
- Graded Course Assessment
- Discussion Forums
- Comprehensive Learning Resources
- Extra Course Resources
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!
Week 1: Preparing for the Anaesthetic
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 out patient if things go wrong! Click here to view the live tutorial date and time in your local time zone.
Week 2: Preparing your Patient for Anaesthesia
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. Click here to view the live tutorial date and time in your local time zone.
Week 3: Anaesthetic and Sedative Drugs
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. Click here to view the live tutorial date and time in your local time zone.
Week 4: The Anaesthetic
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! Click here to view the live tutorial date and time in your local time zone.
Course Tutor
BVSc MVS PG Cert Vet Stud MACVSc (Vet. Emergency and Critical Care; Medicine of Dogs)
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