Veterinary Anaesthesia: Rocking the Routine and the Unexpected

Sedation, anaesthesia and pain management present daily challenges in clinical practice. This one-day theory course will provide an in-depth review of the most common challenges and give you a toolkit of practical tips to optimise patient experience and outcomes. It’ll also equip you with the knowledge to best prepare for potential complications and help prevent them, ultimately reducing the stress of managing anesthesia and analgesia of your patients.

Topics covered include:

• Optimising pre-visit medications
• Improving approaches to intramuscular and subcutaneous premedication
• Practical strategies for handling patients and improving the patient experience
• Minimising risk when sedating comorbid patients
• Ways to approach common issues encountered during routine sedation and anaesthesia
• Recognising breed-specific considerations and how to manage them 
• Stabilisation, anaesthesia and post-op management of some common surgical emergencies (case-based discussions)