GP Refresh - Anaesthesia

About this Online Mini Series:

• Restore, revitalise and refresh your small animal anaesthesia skills
• Drugs used in anaesthesia and which protocol to choose 
• Anaesthetic monitoring. What is normal and what requires intervention?
• How to deal with anaesthetic complications and emergencies
• You have a whole year’s access to recorded sessions and study notes for reviewing key points 

Session 1: Drugs used in anaesthesia and what protocol to choose

• What drugs are available to anaesthetise our small animal patients?
• What to expect when you use these drugs, what are their modes of action and their side effects?
• Practical information on how to choose an anaesthetic protocol and tailor it to the patient
• Intra-operative analgesia and MAC sparing techniques 

Session 2: Anaesthetic monitoring. What is normal and what requires intervention

• Brief outline on direct patient monitoring and special circumstances - when the patient does not read the book
• Monitoring – what does each curve and number mean? What is normal and what is not?
• How to put the data together to really understand what is happening

Session 3: How to deal with anaesthetic complications and emergencies

• Hypoventilation, hypotension, hypothermia are just a few of the most common anaesthetic complications. These will be discussed in depth, together with their consequences, treatments and how to adapt the anaesthetic protocol in these situations. 
• Other less common anaesthetic complications will be discussed
• Finally the most feared of situations will be addressed - how to recognise early cardiovascular arrest and how to perform CPR in an anaesthetised patient

Presenter: Alessandra Mathis

• DVM, CertVA, DipECVAA, MRCVS
• European Specialist in Veterinary Anaesthesia and Analgesia
• RCVS Specialist in Veterinary Anaesthesia
• Head of Anaesthesia at Willows Veterinary Referrals