Patient Safety is Not Optional

Thursday 25 March - Live Stream 1 | On-Demand Stream

Module Summary

How safe are your patients, and how do you measure, monitor and manage such a vital area of clinical practice? This is your opportunity to audit yourself, and develop a systematic, team based approach to a safer practice,

Live Programme Sessions

10:00 - 10:50 Clinical audit: an important part of patient safety?

Patient safety: where do we start? - Catherine Oxtoby  

Clinical audit: where do we start and why? - Pam Mosedale

11:20 - 12:10 What are SEA's and M&M's?

SEA's: Introduction and overview - Pam Mosedale 

M&M's: Introduction and overview -  Helen Silver

12:20 - 13:10 Are safety checklists your new best friend?

Practice and vet perspective

Nurse perspective - Helen Silver

On-Demand Sessions

Webinar Best practice for infection control: COVID-19 and beyond - Tim Nuttall

Webinar Tackling post-op complications, including checklists and auditing - Helen Silver

Anaesthesia

Thursday 25 March - Live Stream 1 | On-Demand Stream

Module Summary

How to improve the anaesthesia in your practice and provide the best patient care throughout the anaesthetic. This stream will cover easy to do local anaesthetic techniques, how to manage some common anaesthetic complications and a discussion on the best sedation protocols. There are pre-recorded webinars to look at anaesthesia in more depth and CPR protocols.

Key Learning Objectives

• Be able to use your monitoring to identify common anaesthetic complications.
• Learn how to approach and treat common anaesthetic complications.
• Understand how to safely sedate a patient.

Live Programme Sessions

14:30 - 15:20 Nerve blacks made easy

Caudal epidurals for blocked cats - Andrew Bell

Dental nerve blocks

15:30 - 16:20 Identifying anaesthetic problems

How capnography can help you identify problems with your patient - Andrew Bell

What options you have in managing hypotension under anaesthesia if fluids don’t work

16:50 - 17:40 Common anaesthetic complications

Is it cold in here? Hypothermia under anaesthesia - Vicky Ford-Fennah

Get the suction! Regurgitation under anaesthesia - Carl Bradbrook

17:50 - 18:40 Sedation wars!

Here we will discuss how to sedate a patient safely and effectively and whether sedation or anaesthesia is the best option for your patients - Carl Bradbrook

Monitoring for sedation - Vicky Ford-Fennah

On-Demand Sessions

Webinar CPR under anaesthesia: bets practice for CPR techniques for patients under anaesthesia

Webinar Local techniques for celiotomy: new local anaesthetic techniques for celiotomy    

Webinar Neutering: provide the best anaesthesia every time. How to provide the best care to patients  - Ian Self

Webinar Cats hurt too: feline analgesia. Peri-operative analgesic techniques for cats - Claire Woolford

Dermatology

Thursday 25 March - Live Stream 2 | On-Demand Stream

Module Summary

This module will provide live discussions between experts on areas that cause primary care practice headaches – the alopecic small furry, the atopic dog and psychogenic alopecia. Each session will feature a live discussion forum between 2 experts, hosted by Sue Paterson. Alongside the live presentations will be pre-recorded content and resource for your practice to use to improve case management. Inflammatory skin disease in cats, alopecia in rabbits and what to do with non-pruritic alopecia when then endocrine skin tests come back normal.

Live Programme Sessions

10:00 - 10:50    Treatment of canine atopic dermatitis in 2021: what options, in what order?

Options - Tim Nuttall

Strategy

Sponsored by

11:20 - 12:10    Has Covid caused stress related alopecias?

The dermatologists view - Ariane Neuber-Watts

The behaviourists view - Sarah Heath

12:20 - 13:10    How should I deal with alopecia in small furries in practice?

The dermatologists view - Ariane Neuber-Watts

Alopecia in small furries…in Practice - John Chitty

On-Demand Sessions

Webinar    Approach to feline inflammatory skin disease

Webinar    Alopecia what to do when the endocrine skin tests are normal? - Tim Nuttall

Webinar    Alopecia in rabbits - Ariane Neuber-Watts

Liver Disease

Thursday 25 March - Live Stream 2 | On-Demand Stream

Module Summary

Explore the current thinking in hot topics in liver disease, like mucocoeles, triaditis and liver biopsies, with world class specialists in this area discussing their approach to these cases. To round off the session there is an interactive session on dealing with apparently healthy dogs that have high liver enzymes.

Pre-recorded resources available will include a practical approach to jaundice in the cat and options for porto-systemic shunts.

Live Programme Sessions

14:30 - 15:20    Why and how should we do more liver biopsies in practice? 

Why should we do more - Mike Willard 

How should we do more - Penny Watson

15:30 - 16:20    What should we advise owners about mucocoeles: surgery, medicine or ignore?

What are the medical options for mucocoeles - Mike Willard 

When and how should we intervene surgically with mucocoeles - Chris Shales

16:50 - 17:40    Interactive cases with increased liver enzymes - Mike Willard

17:50 - 18:40    What Is the current thinking on feline triaditis: does it even exist? - Penny Watson

On-Demand Sessions

Webinar    The value of a good hepatic biopsy

Webinar    What do we think we know - and what do we really know - about mucocoeles? - Mike Willard

Webinar    Medical and surgical options for portosystemic shunts - Gerard Mclauchlan & Chris Shales

Webinar    A practical approach to jaundice in cats - Penny Watson

Diagnostic Imaging

Thursday 25 March - Live Stream 3 | On-Demand Stream

Module Summary

This module is focused on delivering interactive imaging experiences in respiratory and cardiac radiology and a case based approach to abdominal imaging with discussions between imagers and the clinicians that are using their reports.

It is underpinned by webinars directed at delegates who are already confident in the basics and wish to expand their experiences and skill sets to include imaging of adrenals, thoracic viscera (pleural and mediastinal) and the pancreas.

It is recommended that delegates view the content for this module via a laptop or desktop computer.

Live Programme Sessions

10:00 - 10:50    Interactive lower respiratory radiography

11:20 - 12:10    Interactive cardiac radiography - Kieran Borgeat

12:20 - 13:10    Interactive abdominal imaging - Kenny Simpson

On-Demand Sessions

Webinar    Thoracic radiology: it's not all about the lungs

Webinar    Imaging of the canine and feline adrenals

Webinar    Imaging of the canine and feline pancreas

Cardiology

Thursday 25 March - Live Stream 3 | On-Demand Stream

Module Summary

In the past 30 years there have been huge strides in Veterinary Cardiology with the continuous development of new drugs and studies looking at best therapy. Alongside this are the key issues of how we manage asymptomatic patients with murmurs and the ethics of managing heart disease in pets as we develop new and advanced techniques for catheter and surgical intervention.

Live Programme Sessions

14:30 - 15:20 The top 10 innovations in cardiology: a personal perspective

15:30 - 16:20 The asymptomatic patient

I am hearing a heart murmur for the first time in an adult dog: what should I do? - Adrian Boswood

I am hearing a heart murmur for the first time in an adult cat: what should I do? - Jose Novo Matos

16:50 - 17:40 Catheter intervention or surgery?

Cardiac interventions: when and how? - Tobi Wagner

Cardiac surgery: when and how? - Poppy Bristow

17:50 - 18:40 The ethics of managing heart disease in pets

Panel discussion & live Q&A - James Yeates, Tobi Wagner & Poppy Bristow

On-Demand Sessions

Webinar Nursing the cardiac patient

Webinar For the whole team: we have an echo machine - what can we do with it? 

Webinar How do I take my basic heart scan further?

Feline Medicine and Nursing

Thursday 25 March - Live Stream 4 | On-Demand Stream

Module Summary

A diverse group of well-known UK veterinary and nursing speakers will lead discussions on how we can make our practices more cat friendly and then consider how we can practically deal with anaemia, chronic diarrhoea and recurrent cystitis in practice.

Pre-recorded resources available will include talks on feline IMHA, the causes of chronic diarrhoea and the investigation of behavioural factors underlying recurrent cystitis in cats.

Live Programme Sessions

10:00 - 10:50    How can we make our practices more cat friendly? - Nicki Reed & Sarah Heath

Sponsored by

11:20 - 12:10    How should we deal with anaemic cats in our practice? - Nicki Reed & Elle Haskey

12:20 - 13:10    How should we deal with cats with chronic diarrhoea in our practice? - Nicki Reed & Fergus Allerton

Sponsored by

On-Demand Sessions

Webinar    Causes of chronic diarrhoea in cats and their investigation - Fergus Allerton

Webinar    Investigation and management of behavioural factors in recurrent feline cystitis - Sarah Heath

Webinar    Feline IMHA  - Nicki Reed

The Surgical Team: Practice and Principles

Thursday 25 March - Live Stream 4 | On-Demand Stream

Module Summary

This module is all about improving surgical outcomes. It starts with a refresher of the principles of surgery, and then goes on to investigate how scrubbed assistants can help; which leads into schedule 3 amendments.

Removal of small skin tumours - lumpectomies - are often performed sub optimally in practice: correct staging and planning of the surgery will be covered. For those lumpectomies that become wider resections, skin reconstruction techniques and tips are discussed. Then consideration is given to prevention of wound infections and best ways to improve sepsis in practice.

The last session of the module gives an introduction to joint surgery and arthroscopy - a must for anyone wanting to start out in this field!

Leaders in the field of soft tissue surgery will present pre recorded content on tissue handling skills and axial pedicle flaps. An additional pre recorded webinar will help nurses (and veterinary employers) to better utilise their expanding skills under the new Schedule 3 amendments.

Live Programme Sessions

14:30 - 15:20    Getting the bets out of the surgical team

How can Halsted’s Principles help me improve my surgical skills - Dick White

Maximising the use of a scrubbed assistant in surgery - Alison Young

15:30 - 16:20    Improving outcomes from lumpectomies

Lumpectomies made interesting - Jolle Kirpenstein

Skin reconstruction techniques

16:50 - 17:40    Latrogenic wound infections

Surgical preps and autoclaves - Georgie Hollis

Asepsis has failed. Where do we start tracking down the culprit? - Alison Young

17:50 - 18:40    Joint surgery and arthroscopy: the basics

Preparing equipment and team for joint surgery - Alison Young

How to begin in arthroscopy and common pitfalls?

On-Demand Sessions

Webinar    Axial pedicle flaps

Webinar    How to improve tissue handling skills

Webinar    Getting confident with Schedule 3 - Liz Mullineaux