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Goals of the lecture will be able to appropriately treat hyponatremia and hypernatremia, with both acute and chronic changes. We will review the sodium and water balance physiology, discussing triggers and ...

Time management is a key aspect of veterinary nursing, especially when the clinic gets busy. Being efficient and able to prioritise patients and procedures should be a primary skill of the veterinary worker...

ECG’s can be daunting, it is an area of veterinary nursing that is not taught in great detail and one that is sometimes avoided because it is poorly understood. This webinar will go back to basics; where better to start than at the beginning? 

Over the past few decades, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has put increased focus on hand hygiene campaigns under the slogan “Clean Hands – Save Lives” following the global recognition of hand hygiene being a key factor in reducing surgical site…

Surgical site infections (SSI) are the burden of surgery. They lead to increased health care cost due to additional treatment, antibiotics, hospital stay and excess death. Further, these complications create emotional and financial distress for…

Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome is defined as an acute, diffuse, inflammatory lung condition leading to significant changes in a patient’s lung tissues, ability to oxygenate and ability to breath. It is the most severe form of Acute Lung Injury…

Total intravenous anaesthesia (TIVA) involves the maintenance of general anaesthesia using only injectable anaesthetic drugs, rather than the more traditional practice of using inhalant agents. In some situations, such as work in remote areas, this…

Ever wished you knew what you were looking at on a blood smear, and what it meant? This webinar will help you to uncover important clues on blood smears that identify diseases processes and then integrate those findings with clinical and haematology…

The team approach is stressed. Orders are outlined and some highlighted for discussion. Vital signs and further testing, quick assessment tests (QATs),  fluid therapy, ongoing fluid losses from head to toe, nutritional support, assessing for systemic…

We give blood products on an increasingly frequency in veterinary medicine, but how much do we really know about the product we are giving, the indications for each product and possible sequelae to this administration of foreign products? Blood and…