COURSE DESCRIPTION

This course is a continuation in a series of highly successful general surgery courses and will focus on surgery of the oral cavity, abdomen and perineal region. On Monday we will devote a large portion of the day to oncologic surgery including oral cancers, biopsy and ablative techniques. We will focus on common feline surgical problems on Tuesday. Wednesday’s lab will focus on common intra-abdominal techniques including a Covidien Ltd. sponsored stapling laboratory. Thursday’s laboratory will focus on herniorrhaphy and urethrostomy techniques.
Knowledgeable and entertaining experts in the areas of oral neoplasia, canine and feline gastrointestinal surgery and herniorrhaphy provide laboratory instruction in a fun and relaxed environment. Evening sessions will stress problem cases and will be fully interactive and highly entertaining.
The in-depth hands-on surgical laboratories use dog and cat cadavers and viscera. The oral surgery laboratory includes procedures on salivary gland removal, cleft palate repair, mandibulectomy, and maxillectomy. Surgical procedures planned for the feline lab include colopexy, subtotal colectomy, feeding tube insertion and perineal urethrostomy. The abdominal laboratory procedures include intestinal and liver stapling, gastropexy for GDV, splenectomy and liver biopsy techniques. The final laboratory session includes diaphragmatic hernia repair, gall bladder removal, scrotal urethrostomy and perineal hernia repair in dogs.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Successful participants in this course will be able to:

• master basic biopsy techniques for oral tumors, splenic masses and liver masses.
• place esophagostomy, percutaneous gastrostomy and enterostomy tubes in dogs and cats.
• perform a mandibulectomy, a maxillectomy and salivary mucocele and cleft palate surgery.
• perform the basic techniques of diaphragmatic and perineal hernia repair and
  urethrostomy techniques in dogs and cats.
• understand advanced stapling systems and how to implement them in practice.

COURSE TEXTBOOK

Small Animal Surgery Textbook. Fossum TW. 3rd ed. Mosby; 2007.

COURSE LEADER

• Gary Ellison, DVM, MS, MRCVS, DACVS

FACULTY

• Nicholas J. Bacon, VetMB, MA, DECVS, MRCVS
• Stephen Birchard, DVM, MS, DACVS
• Ronald M. Bright, DVM, DACVS
• James P. Farese, DVM, DACVS
• John C. Huhn, DVM, MS

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