Emergency and Critical Care
Emergency & Critical Care I
live
Bern / Switzerland
20.01.2025 – 24.01.2025
EURO 2.750.-*
EURO 2.650.-*(early registration deadline: 01.09.2024)
* 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. 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)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, 20 January 2025
08:30 – 08:45 Welcome Sigrist / Adamik
08:45 – 09:50 Emergency facility and triage Sigrist
09:50 – 10:15 Coffee Break
10:15 – 12:00 Localization and specific stabilization of the dyspneic patient Sigrist
12:00 – 12:15 Q&A
12:15 – 13:15 Lunch Break
13:15 – 14:15 Diagnostic imaging chest Precht
14:25 – 15:10 Shock and fluid therapy Sigrist
15:10 – 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 – 16:25 Shock and fluid therapy Sigrist
16:30 – 17:30 Fluid therapy case in groups
17:30 – 18:30 Welcome Drinks
Tuesday, 21 January 2025
08:00 – 08:50 Diagnostic approach to the acute abdomen Adamik
08:50 – 09:40 FAST – Basics Adamik
09:40 – 10:00 Coffee Break
10:00 – 11:00 Diagnostic imaging abdomen Precht
11:10 – 12:15 Management of GDV Sigrist
12:15 – 13:15 Lunch Break
13:15 – 14:15 Management hemoperitoneum Sigrist
14:25 – 14:45 Coffee Break
14:45 – 17:30 Fluid tx cases discussion Sigrist
Wednesday, 22 January 2025
08:00 – 08:50 Intoxication and lipid tx Adamik
08:50 – 09:50 Heart stroke Adamik
09:50 – 10:15 Coffee Break
10:15 – 11:00 Addison crisis Adamik
11:10 – 12:00 Pericardial effusion Adamik
12:00 – 12:15 Q&A
12:15 – 13:15 Lunch Break
13:15 – 14:15 AKI Francey
14:25 – 15:10 Obstructive FLUTD Schweighauser
15:10 – 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 – 17:30 Analgesia and anaesthesia Kantyka
18:30 Social Dinner
Thursday, 23 January 2025
08:30 – 09:50 Congestive heart failure Sigrist
09:50 – 10:15 Coffee Break
10:15 – 12:00 Anemia, IMHA and ITP Sigrist
12:00 – 12:15 Q&A
12:15 – 13:15 Lunch Break
13:15 – 14:15 Video session: Emergency procedures Sigrist
14:25 – 17:15 Lab: Emergency procedures Sigrist / Adamik
Friday, 24 January 2025
09:50 – 10:15 Coffee Break
10:15 – 11:00 Head trauma Adamik
11:10 – 12:00 The seizuring patient (case based) Sigrist
12:00 – 13:15 Lunch Break
13:15 – 14:30 CPCR Theory Sigrist
14:30 – 14:45 Coffee Break
14:45 – 16:25 CPR Lab / video cases respiration Sigrist / Adamik / Guillet
16:30 – 17:30 Casus Case / final discussion