Endocrine emergencies

Date: Wednesday 5th December, 2012 - Wednesday 5th December, 2012
Start time: 9:00 AM
Duration: 6 hour(s)
Cost: £350

Provider: Royal Veterinary College

This one day lecture-based course will focus on the management of several endocrine disorders as they present in an emergency setting. The lectures will provide practical information, enabling participants to feel more confident managing these challenging but rewarding cases. There will be a focus on making a rapid diagnosis, emergency stabilisation and initial management with the information being delivered in lecture format with the use of real life case examples.

This course would be useful CPD for veterinarians preparing for RCVS CertAVP C modules in small animal medicine, feline medicine and emergency and critical care. It would also be useful to practitioners seeing emergency patients in general practice or dedicated emergency practice, in addition to those with an interest in endocrine diseases of small animals.

Key areas:
• Management of an Addisonian crisis
• Emergency management of diabetic ketoacidosis
• Approach to the hypoglycaemic patient
• Hypercalcaemia – when is it a really emergency?
• Causes and emergency management of hypertension

To book: Contact the CPD Unit on Tel: 01707 666865, or email cpd@rvc.ac.uk. Further details available at www.rvc.ac.uk/cpd

Who is it for?

Veterinary Surgeons

The Speakers

David Church, BVSc(Hons), PhD, MACVSc, FHEA, MRCVS
Professor of Small Animal Medicine
The Royal Veterinary College

Lindsay Kellett-Gregory, BSc(Hons) BVetMed(Hons) DACVECC MRCVS
Lecturer in Emergency and Critical Care Medicine
The Royal Veterinary College

Stijn Niessen, DVM DipECVIM-CA PhD MRCVS
Lecturer in Internal Medicine
The Royal Veterinary College

Number of CPD hours this event can be recorded as

6 hours

Registration and Booking

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