Sep. 20-Oct. 31, 2010
This online CPD course runs for 6 weeks and is designed to assist participants in developing a logical approach to clinical reasoning in key areas of farm animal health and production.
Key areas:
• Surgical decision making:
• Identification and the pre-operative management of surgical disease in the farm animal.
• General and regional anaesthesia, analgesia
• Surgical techniques using commonly encountered adult (e.g. RDA, LDA) and calf (umbilical masses) abdominal disease.
• Medical diagnostics:
• Select, perform and interpret haematology, biochemistry, tissue fluid analyses and other diagnostics to identify disease, manage and refine therapies and estimate prognosis at both an individual and population level.
• Therapeutics:
• Develop a greater understanding of the process of rational selection and the appropriate administration of:
• Antimicrobial therapy
• Practical use of fluid therapy for calves and adult cows
• Anti-inflammatories and analgesics
• Gastrointestinal disease in ruminants:
• Application of diagnostics and therapeutics to an outbreak of calf diarrhoea
• On farm investigations of gastrointestinal disease in growing stock and adult animals
• Respiratory disease in ruminants:
• The rationale application of diagnostics such as bronchoalveolar lavage and therapeutics such as vaccination to an outbreak of calf pneumonia
• Prophylactic and metaphylactic use of antimicrobials.
• Enhanced understanding of quantifying potential risk factors for infectious respiratory disease
• Constructing farm-specific causality webs during disease outbreak investigations
Course fee £509 (RVC CPD courses are VAT exempt in 2010)
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