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ON-DEMAND VET NURSE COURSE

Nutrition of the Critical Patient

Clinical nutrition’s impact on disease is expanding rapidly.

  • Vet Nurse/Tech
  • RACE Non-Interactive CE
  • 3 Months Access
  • 6 Structured CPD Points

This course includes

  • 3-month access
  • Course ebook
  • Extra resources
  • Lecture Recordings
  • Quiz assessment
  • CPD certificate

What you'll learn

This exciting course has been written specifically for veterinary technicians and nurses – and will cover the fundamentals of how to effectively provide nutritional support to the dog or cat with emergency illness. We’ll also present many of the recent advances in our understanding of optimal nutritional support in critically ill patients – all presented in a user-friendly, unbiased format, so that you get the information you need to know about in order to provide the best care and advice for small animals in your practice!

Course Outline

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.
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.
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.

Course Tutor

Dr Philip Judge

BVSc MVS PG Cert Vet Stud MACVSc (Vet. Emergency and Critical Care; Medicine of Dogs)

This course is supported by our free webinar

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Masterclass Nutrition for the Emergency Patient

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Dr Philip Judge

BVSc MVS PG Cert Vet Clin Stud MACVSc (Vet. Emergency and Critical Care; Medicine of Dogs)

Philip graduated from Massey University in New Zealand in 1992, and spent 7 years in small animal practice before undertaking a 3-year residency in veterinary emergency and critical care at the University of Melbourne in 1998.

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.

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