Emergency patients need nutritional support… but what should we feed them, how much should we feed them, and what if they are unable to eat? This 1-week intensive course will answer all of these questions and more! We’ll cover care of feeding tubes, how to select the right diet, how to feed the diet, and how to manage complications in patients with a wide variety of emergency conditions – from trauma to metabolic disease and organ failure.
With 3 live tutorials, extensive course notes, lots of tutor interaction, and an engaging course assessment task, this course will help take your nursing care to the next level.
Live: Tuesday, August 22, 2023 | 19:30 AEST
We begin with a discussion of what happens to a healthy patient that is fasting - and then look at what happens to an animal that is fasting when they are sick and unwell, to determine just how urgent early nutritional support is in these patients. We’ll also take a look at specific nutritional requirements of emergency and critically ill patients - and why they are different from healthy patients.
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Live: Wednesday, August 23, 2023 | 19:30 AEST
This tutorial will focus on feeding the patient - from feeding tube placement, care and complications, to how to provide nutritional support to your patient. We’ll also introduce the concept of micro-enteral nutrition, and how it can improve tolerance of critical care nutrition, when feeding begins, and will conclude with details on how to introduce complex nutrition to your emergency patient.
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Live: Thursday, August 24, 2023 | 19:30 AEST
This tutorial will focus on the specifics of providing nutritional support to the emergency patient with specific disease - including kidney disease, trauma, gastrointestinal dysfunction, diabetes among others. We’ll conclude with a section specifically dealing with the complications of nutritional support- including re-feeding syndrome, gastrointestinal upset, anaemia and more.
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At the conclusion of this course, the participant will have a sound understanding 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.
