Beyond the gas: Advanced anaesthesia techniques in small animals
This Veterinary Thought Exchange online tutored course takes a deep dive into advanced concepts in anaesthesia that will help you to refine your techniques and take your skills to a new level; having a big impact on your everyday practice.
How can I maintain anaesthesia with intravenous infusions? How should I approach anaesthesia in complex cases like caesarean sections and thoracic surgery? How should I interpret different electrocardiogram and capnogram waveforms? How do I set my ventilator to achieve effective ventilation? How does chronic pain develop and how can we treat it?
The course is run by Felipe Grados (ECVAA Specialist in Anaesthesia). The course runs over a seven-week period and takes around 9 hours to complete. The course is delivered via video webinars and supplemented with discussion forums with the course tutor, 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. The discussion forum will be monitored by Felipe for the duration of the course.
Course Content
- Difference between inhalant and total intravenous anaesthesia (TIVA).
- When to I use TIVA.
- Administration and titration of TIVA.
- The concept of partial intravenous anaesthesia (PIVA).
- Use of different agents for PIVA.
- Interpreting the basic waveform.
- Diagnosis of arrythmias.
- Conduction abnormalities.
- Appropriate treatment of the above.
- Interpreting the basic waveform.
- Interpreting different capnograms.
- Appropriate correction of problems.
- The concept of IPPV.
- Different types of mechanical ventilators.
- How to set up the variables to achieve effective and safe ventilation.
- Types of procedure and their effect on the anaesthesia management.
- Intraoperative ventilation management (including recruitment manœuvre).
- Intraoperative analgesia management.
- Simple locoregional techniques.
- Post-operative complications and their management.
- Physiology of pregnancy.
- Anaesthetising the pre-term pregnant patient for a non obstetric procedure.
- Anaesthetising the term pregnant patient for caesarean section.
- Neonate resuscitation.
- Chronic pain concept.
- Peripheral and central sensitisation.
- Wind-up as a contributing process to central sensitisation.
- Pain pathway and treatment options.
Meet the speakers
Felipe Grados
Anaesthesia Specialist