Critical Care: The Team Approach

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Do you love the smell of ketones in the morning? Do you buy energy drinks by the case? If you live for the adrenaline rush that is emergency medicine, then this course is for you.

This innovative course helps the veterinary critical care team develop protocols and treatments for emergency patients, practice diagnostic and imaging protocols and develop management strategies via interactive case studies.

This course is perfect for veterinarians and advanced veterinary technicians looking for a team approach to critical care medicine. The participants form groups that work together during the week to manage various critical care cases. The lecture component delivers information on the particular critical care case and the laboratory sessions allow interactive discussion with the instructor team.  The groups will generate strategies for assessment, management, possible complications and outcomes. 

A very unique aspect of this course will be instruction and discussion on how to implement emergency medicine teams in the hospital and increase client awareness and marketing for emergency programs.

Is your hospital team ready to make those life and death decisions in emergency situations?

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Veterinarians and veterinary technicians who complete this course will be able to:   

• equip their practice for emergency service and recoup the investment with effective marketing and client communications.
• work together in a team approach to achieve stabilization and management of critical patients.
• identify and successfully manage the different types of shock and sepsis.
• acquire a minimal clinical database and perform and evaluate advanced diagnostic imaging tests.

COURSE LEADER

Andrew J. Rosenfeld, DVM, DABVP

FACULTY

Elizabeth Dunphy, DVM, AVECC
Dennis Keith, DVM, DACVR