Masterclass: Neonatal Care
1-week course on critical patient treatment essentials.
- Vet Nurse/Tech
- Starts November 6, 2023
- 1 Week
- RACE-approved for 6 CPD Points
This course includes:
- Live Online Weekly Tutorials
- Access to Tutorial Recordings
- 6 CPD Points (RACE-approved)
- Protocols For Your Practice
- Graded Course Assessment
- Discussion Forums
- Comprehensive Learning Resources
- Extra Course Resources
Course Outline:
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!
Tutorial 1: The Normal Neonate
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.
- Tuesday, 7 November 2023
- 19:30 AEDT
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Tutorial 2: The Approach to the Sick Neonate
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.
- Wednesday, 8 November 2023
- 19:30 AEDT
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Tutorial 3: Specific Neonatal Disorders
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!
- Thursday, 9 November 2023
- 19:30 AEDT
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Learning Objectives:
At the conclusion of this course, the participant will have a sound knowledge of:
- The physiology of the normal neonate, including the cardiovascular response to hypovolaemia, the rate of liver and kidney maturation, normal blood values of commonly measured serum biochemistry and haematology samples
- The impact of neonatal physiology on dosage requirements for commonly used medications, including analgesics, sedatives, antibiotics and fluid therapy
- The approach to the sick neonate, including aspects of the physical examination, fluid therapy, nutritional support, and patient monitoring
- The use of the APGAR scoring system to assist determination of neonatal viability
- Key aspects of toxic milk syndrome, neonatal septicaemia, neonatal isoerythrolysis, hypovolaemia/shock, and inherited cardiac diseases.
When is it?
Time: 19:30 AEDT [Sydney] | 21:30 NZDT [Auckland]
Time: 03:30 EST
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