Queensland
Date: Thursday, November 9, 2023
Available for: Veterinarians
Address: Unit 1, 28 Burnside Road Ormeau, Queensland 4208 Australia
Cost: $Free
One-Day Workshop For Vets
Gain more confidence, create new enthusiasm and enhance your surgical skills and capabilities to provide a better service and experience to your patients and clients.
Our Abdominal Surgery workshops is designed to be a hands-on practical workshop to enhance your skills in various aspects of abdominal surgery. This workshop is ideal for Veterinarians wanting to spend time practicing surgical techniques on cadavers, with close supervision by our experienced tutors.
16 points, NZVA CVE Points: 8 points
Key Learning Areas:
- Preparing a patient for exploratory laparotomy, drug choices – analgesia, antibiotics
- Avoiding peek and shriek (standard approach and evaluation of the abdomen)
- Tips for Gastrointestinal surgery – identifying issues, suture type/pattern choice, use of suction and cautery
- Assessing GI tissue viability
- Organ biopsy methods: liver, pancreas, lymph node, intestinal
- Simple enterotomy, gastropexy (prophylactic), gastrotomy, serosal patching, omentalisation
- Oesophagostomy tube placement
- Post op care
Other Available Dates
Educators
Dr Ben Kaye
BVSc, Dip. ECVS, European Specialist in Small Animal Surgery, MANZCVS (ECC), MVetMed, Registered Specialist in Small Animal Surgery
Dr Charles Kuntz
Fellow of Surgical Oncology, MACVSc College of Veterinary Surgeons, MS, Registered Specialist in Small Animal Surgery, Specialist Surgeon DVM