The Veterinary Nurse Essential Anaesthesia Collection
Central CPD
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Duration: 11 hour(s)
Cost: £100
A tailored learning series containing thirteen videos with expert lecturers, combining two comprehensive nurse-focused anaesthesia learning series. This collection is designed to build a strong foundational knowledge and confidence in key anaesthesia principles, as outlined below:
Anaesthesia Refresher Series:
Understanding the fundamentals of anaesthesia monitoring will not only boost your confidence but will also lay the groundwork for future skills and concepts to be built on. Monitoring your patients' physiological parameters is similar to assembling puzzle pieces; it is critical to understand how they all fit together to form a larger picture so that any abnormalities can be identified and troubleshooted. Because many diseases, anaesthetic drugs, and surgical procedures affect our patients differently, no two anaesthetics will be the same. This learning series with Courtney Scales provides you with a thorough understanding of how to monitor your patient throughout their entire anaesthesia experience, whether you are newly qualified, returning to work, or simply looking to improve your knowledge.
The Four Phases of Veterinary Anaesthesia Series:
The anaesthesia period has four different phases: pre anaesthesia, induction, maintenance, and recovery, with the veterinary nurse monitoring the patient throughout. Each monitoring parameter can be thought of as a piece of a puzzle. This learning series with Niamh Clancy will help you to understand the information each one is giving you so you can fit all the information together to obtain the bigger picture. Not only is every patient different, but different drugs also produce different effects, and these can also vary depending on numerous other contributing factors - so no two cases will ever be the same.
Topics covered include:
The P wave in ECGs is not for Panic: Understanding ECGs
Deep breath: Capnography made easy
Squeeze! Blood pressure monitoring under anaesthesia
Breathe easy - an overview of airway management, breathing systems and manual ventilation
Anaesthetic drugs: What to expect when they’re on board
Wake me up before you go-go: Anaesthesia recovery
Pre anaesthesia patient assessment - the importance of the pre anaesthesia ‘TPR’ and ‘pre-op bloods’
Premedication drug selection and pharmacology - a multimodal approach to pain and sedation
Anaesthesia induction and maintenance - injectable and volatile agents pharmacology
Airway management - discussion of different airway devices, how to place them and how to prepare for a difficult airway
Cardiovascular monitoring - ECG interpretation and blood pressure monitoring
Respiratory monitoring - Capnography and pulse oximetry monitoring
Treating common anaesthetic-related complications: hypothermia, bradycardia, tachycardia, hypotension, hypertension, hypoxia
How to prepare to recover, when to extubate and what to monitor
Who is it for?
Vet nurses
Number of CPD hours this event can be recorded as
11 hours
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