Unit SMALL ANIMAL EMERGENCY AND CRITICAL CARE
- Course
- Veterinary medicine
- Study-unit Code
- A000570
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Maria Beatrice Conti
- Teachers
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- Maria Beatrice Conti
- Hours
- 16 ore - Maria Beatrice Conti
- CFU
- 1
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2013
- Offered
- 2017/18
- Learning activities
- A scelta dello studente
- Area
- A scelta dello studente
- Academic discipline
- VET/08
- Type of study-unit
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- how to approach a critically ill patient in emergency setting and in intensive care
- Reference texts
- DiBartola "Fluid therapy in small animal practice" W.B. Saunders Co.
Mathews K. "Veterinary emergency and criical are manual" Lifelearn Inc. - Educational objectives
- knowledge: the student must be able to physically evaluate an animal that is presented in emergency setting and to decide the diagnostic and therapeutic procedures necessary for its stabilization.
applying knoledge: the student will become familiar with the main procedures for the stabilization in the critically ill patient. it will also be able to perform triage on the animal and to support the teaching and medical staff of the VTH during emergency - Teaching methods
- practical training in Veterinary Teaching hospital - VTH. simulation of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)
- Learning verification modality
- check of the frequency
- Extended program
- - introduction
- the stabilization of critically ill patient: how to set up fluid and oxygen therapy; the pharmacological containment, the nutritional support (4 hours)
- the politraumatized patient (2 hours)
- How to approach animals with urinary tract obstruction (2 hours)
- The neurological emergencies (2 hours)
- How to handle patients with acute gastrointestinal signs (1 hours)
- SIRS and MODS (1 hours)
- Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (2 hours)