Unseen perils: Navigating toxicology in small animal patients
Dealing with animals that have ingested toxins can be one of the most stressful and challenging situations for us, when working in small animal practice. With this new tutored, interactive course, we hope to take some of that stress away. We will explore some of the most common toxins and look in detail at what we really know about the underlying pathophysiology. Apart from some of the common decontamination strategies, we will take a more focused approach to the various treatments and antidotes. You will come away from this course with the tools to treat these stressful cases with confidence.
The course is run by Kerry Doolin who is a Specialist in Emergency and Critical Care.
This course runs over a seven-week period and is the equivalent of 7 hours of CPD. It is delivered via video webinars and supplemented with discussion forums with the course tutors, giving you the opportunity to ask questions or discuss cases you may be facing in your practice.
Access to this course is for 12 months from the start of the course going live on our website. The discussion forum will be monitored for the course duration only.
Course Content
- Discuss why chocolate is a problem and how much you should be worried about.
- Learn about the most logical diagnostic approach in these patients.
- Treatment… what is needed and when?
- Review the most up to date information regarding the pathogenesis of this complex toxicity.
- One raisin or twenty mince pies, when should you intervene?
- Learn how to manage the acute renal failure when it happens.
- Discuss how much of this toxin is a problem and why.
- What are the most appropriate actions in an emergency.
- Learn about the most up to date treatment options; glucose, hepatopathy and coagulation.
- Review what we know about the pathophysiology of this toxicity.
- Discuss the stages of disease and what interventions will work and when.
- Are there any treatment options that really work… reaching for the vodka.
- Why is this one such a problem for cats?
- How do we approach decontamination in these cases.
- Is dialysis ever a reasonable consideration?
- Review how NSAIDs work and why this is the problem when they go wrong.
- Learn about the best treatment option… more than gastroprotection?
- Which patients should we be avoiding these drugs in… even at normal doses.
- Paracetamol can be such a useful drug… when does it become a problem?
- What are the most appropriate actions in an emergency.
- When is paracetamol not the problem?
Meet the speakers
Kerry Doolin
ECC Specialist