This webinar covers biological and therapeutic effects of laser therapy using Multiwave Locked System (MLS®).

Mechanical ventilation is becoming a common therapeutic tool in veterinary medicine. Mechanical ventilation is often necessary in cases of hypoxic or hypercapnic respiratory failure, shock, coma, or cardiac arrest. In this seminar, we will discuss the mechanics of ventilation, the different ventilatory modes (pressure and volume controlled), their strengths, limitations, similarities and differences, we will also discuss their indications, and we will learn how to set up and adjust the setting for our patients. This seminar is centred around the concept of lung-protection and the open-lung theory. Finally, we will use a couple of ventilator models as example for the configuration setting up. This is a dynamic seminar with great and practical videos that will help you understand what is happening in the lungs when we program certain parameters in the ventilator. Finally, we will discuss about the patient weaning from the ventilator and the best strategies to achieve a positive outcome in these patients.

This lecture will look at the maintanance requirements of commonly (and some less commonly) placed tubes, catheters and drains in veterinary practice. We will look at aspects such as the importance of aseptic technique, cleaning technique and patency checks. What to do if things go wrong will also be covered. Devices to be covered include: Feeding tubes (nasogastric, oesophagostomy, gastrostomy), Nasal oxygen catheters, Tracheostomy tubes, Chest drains (including trochar and seldinger drains), Abdominal drains, e.g. Jackson Pratt drains, Venous catheters including peripheral and central catheters, Arterial catheters.