Pain Management in Small Animal Practice
- Vet Nurses
- August 31, 2020
- RACE-approved for 15 CE credits
Continuous infusion analgesia made easy with this 3-week interactive and tutor guided course.
What you'll learn
Our knowledge and understanding of pain, and its adverse effects on patient health has expanded rapidly over many years. As clinicians and nurses, an understanding of pain perception, recognition of pain, and how to manage pain is crucial to our patients’ welfare and wellbeing.
This course will journey through the physiology of pain perception, how different analgesics work, how to accurately monitor patients on analgesic therapy. What’s more, we will also review specific analgesic techniques in various diseases and procedures, including emergency analgesia of the critically ill patient.
- Topic 1: Physiology and Recognition of Pain: This topic will look at how the sensation of pain arises, and how animals respond to pain. In addition, we will learn how to recognize pain, and how to more accurately assess pain using pain scoring systems.
- Topic 2: Analgesic Medications and Techniques: This week we will look at how the different analgesics work, and the best way to use them, monitor the use of analgesics, legal requirements, and, importantly, how to manage toxicity due to analgesics. We will cover intravenous analgesic infusions, epidurals, local anaesthetic blocks, and management of chronic pain as well!
- Topic 3: Analgesia in Disease States: This topic will covers analgesia in specific disease states, including pregnancy, emergency patients, acute abdominal discomfort, caesarean section, geriatric and paediatric patients and more!
BVSc MVS PG Cert Vet Stud MACVSc (Vet. Emergency and Critical Care; Medicine of Dogs)
Course Features:
- RACE-approved for 15 CE credits
- Printed and Bound Course Book
- Graded Course Assessment
- Discussion Forums
- Live and Online Weekly Tutorials
- Comprehensive Learning Resources
- Extra Course Resources
- Protocols For Your Practice
Course Fee:
AUD 350
Exclusive Offer:
Get a free eBook Featuring selected chapters from the most up-to-date references on pain management in small animals, from the CRC Press catalogue.
Live Weekly Tutorials
The 3-week course starts on August 31st, 2020 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! Click Here to check the course tutorial times where you are!
15 CE Credits
This course is ideal for Veterinary Nurses and is RACE-approved for 15 CE credits!
