equine HOW TO programme

The full Equine How To programme will be available soon.

Tuesday 23 June 2026

7amRegistration opens
Level 3
8amWelcome | Rob Mills (NZVA President)
Theatre 1 
Level 5
8.10amPlenary: Learning through times of disruption: navigating AI | Sir Ashley Bloomfield
Theatre 1 
Level 5
9amMorning tea
Exhibition Hall 
Level 3
12pmLunchExhibition Hall 
Level 3
1pmHow to scan flexor tendons | Katie Seabaugh
This brief presentation will focus on important techniques for successful injection of the distal hock joints
Room 501 
Level 5
1.15pmHow to successfully inject the distal hock joints | Katie Seabaugh
This brief presentation will describe the use of a single stick technique for blocking all three pouches of the stifle joint. 
Room 501 
Level 5
1.30pmHow to inject the stifle using the single stick technique | Katie Seabaugh
Room 501 
Level 5
1.45pmHow to assess solar penetration for synovial involvement | Shelly Hann
Room 501 
Level 5
2pmHow the heck do I take these incisor rads? | Liz Thompson
Equine incisor radiographs are essential in diagnosis of many dental conditions. But just how to get good views? How many do I need? And how the heck do I get them without destroying the clinic’s new sensor plate? Come along for some ideas and encouragement!
Room 501 
Level 5
2.15pmSimple oral nerve blocks for diastema therapy and wolf tooth extraction | Liz Thompson
So, you keep being told to evacuate and flush diastemata and extract wolf teeth, but the horse just won’t play ball. It keeps overpowering your sedation, and you aren’t happy with your perineural anaesthesia at all! Come learn some tips and tricks and see some interesting instruments to simplify the lives of both you and your patients.
Room 501 
Level 5
2.30pmHow to approach colitis in practice: causes and assessment | Michelle Logan
This how-to session addresses the practical management of equine colitis, supported by current evidence. Methods for field assessment are discussed then key aetiologies will be briefly reviewed with emphasis on situations where identifying the underlying cause influences treatment. Strategies for fluid therapy planning and administration, along with referral advice, are provided to enable practitioners to implement evidence-based approaches in practice.
Room 501 
Level 5
2.45pmHow to approach colitis in practice: fluid therapy | Michelle Logan
This how-to session addresses the practical management of equine colitis, supported by current evidence. Methods for field assessment are discussed then key aetiologies will be briefly reviewed with emphasis on situations where identifying the underlying cause influences treatment. Strategies for fluid therapy planning and administration, along with referral advice, are provided to enable practitioners to implement evidence-based approaches in practice.
Room 501 
Level 5
3pmAfternoon teaExhibition Hall 
Level 3
5.30pmHappy hourExhibition Hall 
Level 3
7pmNZVA Special Interest Branch Dinners and NZVNA Dinner


Wednesday 24 June 2026

7amRegistration opens
Level 3
8amPlenary: Thriving and striving at work - the ultimate win win | Charlotte Cantley
Theatre 1 
Level 5
8.45amNZVA AGMTheatre 1 
Level 5
9.30amMorning tea
Exhibition Hall 
Level 3
10amHow to place an over-the-wire catheter | Jenny Sonis
Room 501 
Level 5
10.15amHow to perform an abdominocentesis | Jenny Sonis
Room 501 
Level 5
10.30amHow to do field castrations with a ligature | Shelly Hann
Room 501 
Level 5
10.45amHow to diagnose synovial penetration from a wound | Shelly Hann
Room 501 
Level 5
11amHow to use SGLT2 inhibitors safely and effectively | David Rendle
Room 501 
Level 5
11.15amHow to use trazodone in horses to improve your safety and their welfare | David Rendle
Room 501 
Level 5
11.30amHow to manage wounds: tips and tricks | Laurinda Oliver
Room 501 
Level 5
11.45amHow to place a bandage cast on a hindlimb | Laurinda Oliver
Room 501
Level 5
12pmHow to perform a thorough ophthalmic exam | Allison Stewart
Commencing with assessment of vision, then a description of sedation and ocular nerve blocks will be described. Using black curtain material to obtain a dark environment, assessment of globe position, eyelids, cornea, pupil (PLR- direct and consensual) will be described. Pros and cons of use of equipment such as a transilluminator (or torch), slit lamp (to assess anterior chamber aqueous humour) and ophthalmoscope or light sores and lens to assess the optic nerve and retina will be discussed. Tips for photography of lesions will be described.
Room 501 
Level 5
12.15pmHow to differentiate: uvetits, keratitis, or corneal stomach abscess | Allison Stewart
Assessment of the cornea, pupil and anterior chamber to differentiate common ocular pathology will be discussed.
Diagnosis of uveitis involves identification of ocular pain (blepharospasm), miosis, turbidity of anterior chamber aqueous humour and corpra nigra atrophy and retinal depigmentation in chronic cases. Although uveitis can be a primary immune mediated condition, it is usually secondary to keratitis.
Keratitis is usually traumatic in origin with secondary bacterial and or fungal infection resulting in an corneal ulcer. Occasionally keratitis is immune mediated.
If the corneal epithelium heals trapping microorganisms within the corneal stroma, a corneal stroma abscess can occur.		Room 501 
Level 5
12.30pmLunchExhibition Hall 
Level 3
3.30pmAfternoon teaExhibition Hall 
Level 3
5.45pmNZVA AwardsTheatre 1
 Level 5
6.30pmNetworking dinnerExhibition Hall 
Level 3

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This programme was correct at the time of publication. Speakers and titles are subject to change.