Exotics Weekend
Excel CPD - Vet Nurse CPD
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Date: Saturday 3rd March, 2012 - Sunday 4th March, 2012
Start time: 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Duration: 14 hour(s)
Cost: £600
This weekend course is aimed at vets who wish to gain and expand their knowledge of exotic practice and will cover reptiles, mammals and avian species. The day will be split into smaller sessions covering many different aspects of veterinary medicine, including diagnosis, treatment and management of disease, husbandry considerations, soft tissue and orthopaedic surgery, behavioural issues and emergency and critical care treatment. There will be plenty of case studies throughout for discussion. REPTILES Session 1 2: Update on Reptile MedicineReptile medicine is a challenging and exciting area of veterinary medicine. With the greater range of species being kept and bred in captivity reptile medicine is becoming even more challenging. This course will present a practical disease orientated clinical examination, highlighting significant differences between the commonly seen species. Capture and restraint will be demonstrated as will common mistakes in the enclosurevivarium set up and diet. Additionally, emergency and critical care will be covered. Integration of the basic information presented in the course will provide course participants with the requisite knowledge and skills necessary for the successful evaluation, diagnosis and management of reptilian diseases. SMALL MAMMALS Session 3: FerretsThis session will provide an update on emerging diseases, and review our current knowledge on adrenal disease, vaccination, and common presentations. Tips on handling, diagnostic sampling and generation of differential diagnosis algorithms will be covered in order for general practitioners to confidently handle their mustelid patients.Session 4: Guinea PigsThis session will cover common presentations and review emerging diseases (for example thyroid disease), and cardiac disease. With the increase in interest keeping guinea pigs and the concurrent surge in information available every general practitioner should be able to go further than just prescribing Baytril or diagnosing mites!Session 5: Small Mammal Therapeutics Going beyond Baytril!This lecture will outline a logical plan with reference to the cascade to expand the treatment of small mammal patients. The focus will be on logical drug use looking at use of drugs for the same indication in other speciescountries and uses of allometric scaling. AVIAN Session 6: Introduction to Avian Medicine (Anaesthesia and Diagnostics)Avian medicine is the broadest of all specialities, with 9000 species to deal with and every discipline that the patient may require. The challenges are compounded by the fact that birds are prey species and hide the signs for as long as possible. As a bird has a higher metabolic rate than a mammal, once it is sick, it becomes sicker and dies quicker than other pets. For these reasons, the rapid recognition of ill health, the immediate achievement of a specific diagnosis and the effective administration of appropriate medication is essential. Diagnosis is based on history, visual and physical examination, clinical pathology tests (haematology, biochemistry, serology, cytology), radiography, and were necessary ultrasonography or endoscopy. All these elements will be discussed.Session 7: Soft Tissue and Orthopaedic Surgery of BirdsAvian surgeons do not regularly have to undertake complex surgeries, but when called upon, the patients are often in a critical state, the degree of surgical dexterity and skill required is high, and the margin for error is very slight. Appropriate instrumentation, magnification and illumination, together with appropriate training are mandatory if acceptable success rates are to be achieved. The following procedures will be discussed: ingluviotomy, cloaco-pexi, cloaco-plasty and cloacotomy, coeliotomy leading to proventriculotomy, enterotomy and enterectomy, salpingohysterectomy, and orchidectomy. Liver biopsy, lung biopsy, tracheotomy and trachectomy.Avian orthopaedic surgery presents specific challenges, both in terms of the degree of perfection that is required to regain normal flight, and the difficulties arising due to brittle bones, with wide medulla and thin cortices, surrounded by minimal soft tissue and wafer thin skin. Triage prior to surgery is essential, and surgical techniques (alternative options, pros and cons) will be discussed in detail.Session 8:a) Nutritional Disease of BirdsWith 9000 species of birds as potential patients, eating such varied diets as insects, nectar, meat, fish, vegetables, fruit, grain, it is no small surprise that many birds maintained in captivity, as well as some in the wild, suffer from both nutritional deficiencies and toxicities. The principles of nutrition will be discussed, together with the presenting signs and treatments for the more common nutritional deficiencies and excesses.b) Treating the Traumatised Avian Wildlife CaseIn practice we are regularly presented with wildlife trauma cases. Whilst many practitioners attempt valiantly to save all these cases, few will be aware that even in the very best hands only 30 of cases with simple closed fractures are released and just 15 of birds with open fractures. The triage decision factors will be discussed and explained. The aim being to provide practitioners with scientific based information to assist with triage decision making and suitable explanations to the public rescuer. Appropriate care methods, captive management, rehabilitation and release methods will be discussed.c) Approach to the Feather Plucking ParrotParrots who pluck in captivity, are derived from highly intelligent species, who live in multi bird colonies, of complex social structure. In essence, plucking is an indication of the birds' failure to cope with some aspect of captivity. The fact that there are over 30 recognised potential causes, is an indication in itself, that either it is truly a very complex problem, or that very few people really know much about it. There is no doubt that cases are highly complex, clinical assessment is challenging and some if not many cases will not respond to simple solutions. This session will be a whistle stop, but illuminating tour through many of the underlying causes, diagnostic protocols and treatment options. USE CODE 'VetClick' to receive 10 discount when booking.
Who is it for?
Veterinary surgeons
The Speakers
Neil Forbes BVetMed DipECZM (Avian) FRCVS RCVS and European Specialist Zoo and Wildlife (Avian)Great Western Referrals Aidan Raftery MVB CertZooMed MRCVSAvian and Exotics Animal Clinic, Manchester Molly Varga BVetMed DZooMed (Mammalian) MRCVSCheshire Pet Medical Centre, Manchester
The Venue
Menzies Mickleover Court Hotel, Derby
Number of CPD hours this event can be recorded as
14 hours
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