Fluid Therapy in Small Animal Practice
- Vet Nurse/Tech
- May 30, 2022
- RACE-approved for 20 CE credits
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What you'll learn
This course will help you solve your fluid therapy problems! You’ll review all of the essentials of fluid therapy – from fluid types, administration rates and how to effectively monitor your patient – so that your fluid therapy is as effective in practice as it can be. We will cover fluid dynamics, creating a fluid plan for your patient, shock, transfusion therapy, and fluid therapy in different disease states – such as diarrhea, renal failure, heart disease, cesarean and more!
Week 1: Introduction to Fluid Therapy
Our patients are approximately 70% water! Cleverly though, not all of the water is in the one place – we have fluid compartments, such as blood, interstitial fluid, and intracellular fluid compartments. This week, you’ll learn the characteristics of these fluid compartments, and how our fluid therapy interacts with them - both in health and disease. You’ll also get an overview of the controversy of colloid fluid therapy in critical illness, as well as an insight into the dangers of fluid overload - as well as excessive fluid restriction!
Week 2: Shock
This week we’ll look at how to accurately diagnose and manage different types of shock - including hypovolaemic, anaphylactic, cardiogenic and septic shock - using what we have learnt about body fluid compartments and fluid types! What’s more, we’ll also look at what to do in the scenario that occurs when our patient doesn’t respond to our treatment with intravenous fluids!
Week 3: The Fluid Therapy Plan
Administering intravenous fluids is like prescribing a course of medication for our patients. If we don’t have a plan for our fluids, we could end up giving our patient a fluid that is the wrong type, at the wrong rate, or even make our sick patient even more sick. This week we will look at how we can develop a simple and effective fluid plan for every patient we see in hospital!
Week 4: Fluid Therapy in Disease States
This week is all about the application of what we’ve learnt in the course to real-life cases. You’ll develop fluid therapy plans for patients with pancreatitis, parvovirus, urethral obstruction and more. We’ll talk about electrolyte abnormalities and blood lactate as well, and how knowledge of these parameters can help with fluid choices, and other management strategies.
Bonus Topic: Transfusion Medicine
Transfusion therapy is a critical part of fluid therapy in many patients. In this special topic, you will learn the essentials of transfusion medicine, from blood typing and crossmatching to transfusion delivery and monitoring. Know when patients need a transfusion, know how to calculate transfusion blood volumes, how to collect blood from dogs and cats safely, and what to do when a transfusion reaction occurs!
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 350
Live Weekly Tutorials
The 4-week course starts on May 30, 2022 with live tutorials by Dr Philip Judge on Mondays at 19:30 AEST.
Join us from anywhere
You can join us from almost anywhere you have an internet connection!
20 CE Credits
This course is ideal for Veterinary Nurses/Technicians and is RACE-approved for 20 CE credits!
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