Surgery
This course aims to refresh and enhance your foundational knowledge and skills in companion animal surgery, which is a vital component of veterinary care. It covers essential topics, including surgery basics, suture materials, patterns, bandaging, wounds, abscesses, prophylactic antibiotic use, abdominal surgery, cystotomy, management of pyometra, and upper airway surgery.
Why should you do a surgery course?
- Updated techniques
- Enhanced skill set
- Increased confidence
- Improved patient outcomes
- Staying competitive
- Legal and ethical responsibility
Topics
- The basics of surgery
- Suture materials
- Bandaging
- Wounds
- Abscesses
- Prophylactic antibiotic use
- Emergency abdomen
- Cystotomy
- Exploratory laparatomy
- Gastric dilatation and volvulus
- Ovariohysterectomy: haemorrhage
- Pyometra
- Timing of desexing
- Upper airway disease - obstructive
Learning objectives
- Understand the foundational technical skills and how to practice them
- Initiate and practise surgical safety with checklists
- Make suture choices for any surgery
- Use bandaging for wound debridement, assisting wound healing and support for orthopaedic injuries/conditions
- Understand wound closure – when and how
- Have confidence in assessing abscesses and the degree of intervention required
Contributors
- Kat Crosse MA VetMB MANZCVS DipECVS