Victoria
Date: Friday, May 24, 2024
Available for: Veterinarians
Address: 8/37 Keilor Park Drive Keilor Park, Victoria 3042 Australia
Cost: $2,100
Expected Value: 16 points
One-Day wet lab and workshop For Veterinarians
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.
Please note that we also offer an Abdominal Surgery II workshop to complement this session.
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 Mielke
BVSc (Hons), MRCVS