Spinal Disease 101 2021
Central CPD
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Date: Friday 12th March, 2021 - Friday 12th March, 2021
Start time: 10:00 AM - 5:30 PM
Duration: 1 hour(s)
Cost: £295
This one day course will start with a focus on the diagnosis and management of diseases associated with intervertebral disc degeneration including feline intervertebral disc disease. It will also cover the diagnosis, surgical and non-surgical treatment of important differential diagnosis of intervertebral disc disease including degenerative myelopathies, spinal arachnoid diverticula and constrictive myelopathy of screw tail breeds.Spinal disease is often accompanied by a neurogenic bladder, the resolution or management of which can be the deciding factor on whether treatment of the spinal disease continues, so can bear great importance in the management of these cases. The course will cover management strategies for this common feature of spinal disease.Topics to be covered include:Intervertebral disc disease chondrodystrophic disc extrusions, chronic disc protrusion, acute non-compressive disc extrusion, fibrocartilaginous embolism and feline intervertebral disc herniation.Caudal cervical spondyomyelopathy (wobblers syndrome)Degenerative lumbosacral stenosisScrew tail breed myelopathies arachnoid diverticulae, caudal articular facet hypoplasia and hemivertebraeNeurogenic bladder bladder neuroanatomy and management strategiesDegenerative myelopathy (previously known as CDRM- chronic degenerative radiculomyelopathy)
Who is it for?
Veterinary surgeon
The Venue
The clinical skills labSE17 3BN
Number of CPD hours this event can be recorded as
7 hours
Registration and Booking
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