Emergency and Critical Care
Emergency & Critical Care I
held
Bern / Switzerland
12.02.2024 – 16.02.2024
EURO 2.740.-*
EURO 2.640.-*(early registration deadline: 1.10.2023)
* eLibrary access is included in the course fee
Total hours: 40
ATF hours (Austria, Germany, Luxembourg, Switzerland): TBA
ECTS credits (Master & Certificate): 5
Principal Course Masters:
Dr. Katja-Nicole Adamik, DACVECC, DECVECC (CH)
Dr. Nadja Sigrist, DACVECC, DECVECC (CH)
Instructors:
Dr. Arianna Maiolini, DECVN (CH); Dr. Alan Kovacevic, DECVIM-CA (CH);
Dr. Christina Precht, DECVDI (CH); Dr. Marta Kantyka, DACVAA (CH);
Dr. Ariane Schweighauser, DACVIM-SAIM, DECVIM (CH);
Dr. Thierry Francey, DACVIM-SAIM, DECVIM (CH); Dr. Claire Guillet, Res. ECVECC (CH)
Course Overview
This veterinary course in emergency and critical care is organized with the following emphasis: veterinarians that are actively integrated in an emergency service need continuous education and training. This course should give the candidates an introduction into the state of the art of emergency medicine and at the same time it is the first basic part followed by an advanced course for veterinarians involved in ESAVS continuing education.
At the end of the course the student should be able to:
– Recognize a life threatening problem and prioritize actions
– Recognize different forms of shock and know how to treat it
– Assess the needs of fluid therapy and know how to give it
– Recognize and treat the most common medical and surgical emergencies
– Have a basic knowledge on cardiopulmonary resuscitation
– Use narcotics and analgesics in critically ill patients
The course is divided in classical lectures, interactive case discussions in small groups, practical labs and surgical exercises.
Topics
– Triage/ Emergency Facility
– Respiratory Assessment and stabilization of the patient with respiratory distress
– Diagnostic Imaging Thorax
– Chest Trauma
– Fluid therapy
– Shock
– Analgesia and Anesthesia of the Critically Ill
– Status epilepticus
– DKA/Hyperglycemia
– Addisonian crisis
– IMHA and ITP
– Paraplegia and Paralysis
– Head Trauma
– Aproach to the acute Abdomen
– Diagnostic Imaging Abdomen
– GDV
– Hemoabdomen
– Cardiac Emergencies
– Treatment of arrhythmias
– FLUTD
– Acute renal failure
– Emergency blood work
– Heat stroke
– Dystocia and neonatal resuscitation
– CPR
Case Discussions
– Respiratory Distress
– Fluid Therapy
Practical Labs
– IV Access
– Airway Access
– Abdominal emergency surgery
– CPR
Course Program (subject to change)
Monday, 12 February 2024
08:45 – 09:50 Emergency Facility and Triage
09:50 – 10:15 Coffee Break
10:15 – 12:00 Localization and specific stabilization of the dyspneic patient
12:00 – 12:15 Q&A
12:15 – 13:15 Lunch Break / Welcome Drinks
13:15 – 14:15 Diagnostic imaging chest
14:15 – 15:10 Diagnostic imaging abdomen
15:10 – 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 – 17:15 Shock and fluid therapy
Tuesday, 13 February 2024
08:50 – 09:40 FAST – Basics
09:40 – 10:00 Coffee Break
10:00 – 11:00 Management of GDV
11:00 – 12:00 Management hemoperitoneum
12:00 – 12:15 Q&A
12:15 – 13:15 Lunch Break
13:15 – 14:15 DKA
14:15 – 14:45 Coffee Break
14:45 – 17:30 Fluid tx cases discussion
Wednesday, 14 February 2024
09:50 – 10:15 Coffee Break
10:15 – 11:00 Congestive heart failure
11:00 – 12:00 Pericardial effusion
12:00 – 12:15 Q&A
12:15 – 13:15 Lunch Break
13:15 – 14:15 AKI
14:15 – 15:10 Obstructive FLUTD
15:10 – 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 – 16.25 Intoxication and lipid tx
16:25 – 17:15 Heart stroke
18:15 Social Dinner
Thursday, 15 February 2024
09:50 – 10:15 Coffee Break
10:15 – 12:00 Anemia, IMHA and ITP
12:00 – 12:15 Q&A
12:15 – 13:15 Lunch Break
13:15 – 14:15 Video session: Emergency abdominal procedures
14:15 – 17:15 Lab: Emergency procedures
Friday, 16 February 2024
09:50 – 10:15 Coffee Break
10:15 – 11:00 Head trauma
11:00 – 12:00 The seizuring patient (case based)
12:00 – 12:15 Q&A
12:15 – 13:15 Lunch Break
13:15 – 15:10 CPCR Theory
15:10 – 16:25 CPR Lab / video cases respiration
Final discussion