Scientific Program


Online Course Schedule

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Limited Enrollment Course Descriptions

Highlights

  • Over 35 CE credits
  • 125 professions top speakers
  • Specialist level CE in surgery, emergency medicine, internal medicine, anesthesia
  • Basic through specialist level
  • Over 40 labs and workshops available
  • Unsurpassed Technician Program
  • Proceedings Book or CD with registration
  • Complimentary breaks & receptions

Core Lecture Modules

  • Clinical Pharmacology
  • Clinical Monitoring
  • Cardiology
  • Shock/Trauma
  • Surgery
  • Respiratory Medicine & Ventilation
  • Fluid Therapy
  • Nutrition
  • Feline Medicine
  • Analgesia/Anesthesia

Special Sessions

  • Robert P. Knowles Memorial Lecture
  • Jack Mara Memorial Team Training Series
  • Fundamentals of Emergency Medicine
  • Abstracts & Case Reports
  • State of the Art
  • Practice Management - 2 full days
  • Exotic Animal Emergencies

Technician Program

  • 3 continuous tracks of tech sessions
  • Anesthetic problem cases
  • Bleeding disorders & Transfusion medicine
  • Nursing care protocols
  • Shock
  • Pain management
  • Critical care monitoring
  • Meeting of the Academy of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care Technicians (AVECCT)
  • Academy of Veterinary Technician Anesthetists (AVTA) Meeting, and more...

Large Animal Program

  • Equine and camelid sessions
  • Focus on pharmacotherapy for critical equine patients
  • Unique equine program developed by equine critical care specialists for the equine practitioner
  • 1/2 day of abstracts
  • Unique drug use challenges
  • Antibiotics for life - threatening equine cases
  • Panels on large animal clinical pharmacology, and more...

Wet Labs & Dry Labs

  • Critical care techniques wet lab
  • CPCR Course
  • Surgical skills wet lab
  • Ultrasound wet lab
  • Ventilation management labs
  • Avian emergency skills
  • Advanced Analgesia Techniques
  • Hematology/Cytology, and more...