Anaesthesia in our veterinary patients is undertaken multiple times on a daily basis in our clinics, and in healthy patients for elective procedures is often treated as routine. However – what happens when things don’t go to plan, or you have a patient with significant disease that requires anaesthesia? The confidential inquiry into perioperative small animal fatalities (Brodbelt et al, 2008) revealed that health status of the patient significantly effects the risk of complications, with the risk of anaesthetic related death in healthy vs sick dogs being 0.05% vs 1.33% respectively. This webinar will give an overview of common complications encountered in anaesthetised patients – and how to prepare for, identify and treat them, using interactive case examples. It will include the use of the ASA classification system, case preparation and pro-active monitoring. We will also summarise the most frequently used emergency drugs, when to use them – and what to do if the worst happens, including CPCR.

This webinar with focus on improving pain management in small animal patients. It will focus firstly on the importance of pain assessment in dogs and cats and how you can improve this in your practice.

This talk will focus on the general principles involved in the stabilisation, decontamination and treatment of the intoxicated small animal patient. Emerging therapy with intravenous lipid emulsions (IVLE) and how this may be applied in specific situations will also be discussed.