Neonatal patients are different! They lack physiological reserve to cope with disease and stress, have high demand for fluid and glucose, and a limited number of clinical signs they are able to show when they are unwell.
This 1-week intensive short course is packed with essential information that will help you understand these critical patients better, and to be able to treat them more effectively when they are in your clinic. With 3 live tutorials, we’ll cover the normal neonate, the approach to the sick neonate, fluid therapy, and management of specific neonatal conditions, including sepsis, toxic milk syndrome, neonatal isoerythrolysis and much more!
This tutorial will cover the normal neonate - including basic physiology, blood profile characteristics (blood lactate, packed cell volume, coagulation etc.), as well as the influence of neonatal physiology on pharmacology and drug dosing.
This tutorial will cover the general approach to the sick neonate, including patient evaluation, diagnostic tests (and their interpretation); and the provision of general supportive care, including nutritional support, fluid therapy, and glucose and electrolyte disorders, among others. We’ll conclude the tutorial with a look at how to determine neonatal survivability using scoring systems such as the APGAR system.
This tutorial will look at specific diseases of the neonate, including respiratory disease, cardiac diseases, toxic milk syndrome, neonatal isoerythrolysis, septicaemia, umbilical infections and many more!
At the conclusion of this course, the participant will have a sound knowledge of:
BVSc MVS PG Cert Vet Stud MACVSc (Vet. Emergency and Critical Care; Medicine of Dogs)
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Following his residency, Philip worked for nearly 6 years at the Animal Emergency Centre in Melbourne, becoming the Senior Veterinarian at the centre in 2004. In 2006, Philip undertook a 1-year surgical externship before moving to Townsville to take up the position of Senior Lecturer in Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care at JCU. Philip is also co-founder, and director of Vet Education Pty Ltd (www.veteducation.com) – one of Australia’s leading providers of online continuing education for veterinarians and veterinary nurses.
Philip has published numerous manuals and guides concerning emergency medicine, including a CRI manual, haematology and biochemistry interpretation guide, emergency anaesthesia guide, and a ventilation therapy manual for small animals, in addition to being published in peer reviewed literature.
Philip’s key interests in veterinary science include respiratory emergencies, ventilation therapy, envenomations and toxicology.
