A Practical Approach To The Cost-challenged Case
British Veterinary Association
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Date: Tuesday 20th June, 2017 - Tuesday 20th June, 2017
Start time: 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Duration: 6 hour(s)
Cost: £195
The ‘white heat’ of modern veterinary science comes with a price that some owners are unable to contemplate. This course focuses on these owners, using common clinical problems as practical illustrations of how managing disease does not have to be hugely expensive to clients, but can still be very worthwhile in terms of patient welfare and practice economics.
Sometimes making the diagnosis is more cost-efficient than trial therapy (e.g. anaemia, polydipsia); sometimes trial therapy is more cost-efficient than making the specific diagnosis (e.g. acute fever without localising signs) and sometimes symptomatic relief is best of all (e.g. acute vomiting not associated with systemic signs).
Some chronic conditions require relatively cheap therapies but a lot of monitoring (e.g. renal disease), whereas others (like hyperadrenocorticism) use relatively expensive drugs but can be monitored quite cheaply. This course will use these examples to show how to achieve a good result even in a cost-challenged case.
The five key things delegates will learn from this course are:
- The general strategic approach to the cost-challenged case, and how to do better with less
- Understanding the importance of knowing what is gold standard before cutting costs
- The importance of repeated, thorough clinical examinations
- The importance of weighing up evidence of efficacy of tests and medications
- Reducing a learned dependence on numbers and making clients do more of the monitoring
Who is it for?
All practising veterinary surgeons with an interest in doing the best for their clients within the limits of their circumstances.
The Speakers
Professor Ian Ramsey BVSc PhD DSAM DipECVIM-CA FHEA MRCVS, Professor of Small Animal Medicine, University of Glasgow
The Venue
British Veterinary Association
7 Mansfield Street
London
W1G 9NQ
Number of CPD hours this event can be recorded as
6 hours
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