This webinar will help to obtain a broad knowledge about the anatomy and functional anatomy of the upper and lower respiratory tract in order to better understand the complex physiology of ventilation. What does the animal breathe, why does it breathe, how much does it have to breathe, what happens if it stops breathing?
These and more questions will be discussed within the webinar, with focus on common lung pathologies and possible airway-related emergencies. The importance of a high ventilation – perfusion (mis-) match becomes obvious, when parts of the lungs collapse and venous blood flows back into the left heart without being oxygenated across the alveoli („venous admixture“ or „venous shunting“), as well as in case of decreased perfusion of certain lung areas, when the airways miss out on their chance to eliminate CO2 from the body (intrapulmonary dead space). Different monitoring devices used in veterinary emergency and critical care as well as for anaesthetic case management will put the gained theoretical expertise into relation with our daily clinical life.
Recording from 29.03.2018
Speaker:
Muriel Sacks
DVM, MSc
