Congress 2024- Saturday

The second part of a session in the Exhibition Theatre where Rachel James will explain the basics of ECGs

Panel discussion covering:

• Clinical evaluation, diagnostics and decision making and treatment of patients with prostatitis and pyelonephritis
• When to consider surgical intervention for urinary tract infections e.g. castration, prostatic abscess management, pyonephrosis and indications for peri-operative antibiotic therapy for urinary tract surgery and/or cystoscopy
• Microbiological considerations for management of pyelonephritis, prostatitis e.g. urine versus serum breakpoints and antimicrobial drug choice

How and why to launch an OA Clinic

• Understand why an OA clinic approach is feasible and beneficial: clinically and commercially, in general practice
• Understand the benefits of clinic approach: to patients and for staff
• Understand the key steps in planning and operating an OA clinic ‘in practice’

HThe RVN role in multimodal management of OA

• Understand the importance of ‘team-management’ of OA patients and nurses role within that
• Gain insight into the skills required to meaningfully review, assess and advise the team delivering OA care to patients
• Understand how the tiered format can be used when progressively manging OA patients over the long term

Understanding our minds: pausing to prevent hijack

• Consider how out human minds work
• Understand thinking traps
• Develop ways to prevent hijack

EI (Goleman model) -Wisdom 101

• Understand what emotional intelligence is
• Consider how we can become emotionally intelligent
• Encourage our teams to develop EI

The obstructed male cat: part I

• Indicate the clinical presentation, differential aetiolgies and prevalence of male cat urinary obstructive disease
• Outline the key clinical concerns relating to initial presentation of an obstructed cat
• Explore recent evidence base relating to catheterisation and use of spasmolytic drugs

The obstructed male cat: part II

• Describe the indications for surgical management in male cats with recurrent obstructive disease
• Evaluate potential risks and complications associated with perineal urethrostomy in the cat
• Understand the likely outcome and prognosis after perineal urethrostomy

Environmental management of FIC

• Understand the management of cats with FIC including MEMO and FEE
• Engaging clients for positive outcomes in the management of FIC
• Considerations for the use of anxiolytic therapies in FIC

Medical and nutritional management of FIC

• Evaluate the evidence base for nutritional modification in FIC
• Identify whether evidence base supports the use of urinary neutraceuticals
• Explore the use of analgesics in the management of FIC

Cats are not small dogs

• Understand major differences between canine and feline radiographic anatomy of the thorax
• Be able to identify cardiomegaly in the cat and recognize limitations of radiographic evaluation of the cardiac silhouette in cats
• Become familiar with differences in appearance between feline and canine heart failure

Case discussion: feline thorax

• Be comfortable with the radiographic appearance of common intrathoracic diseases in cats

Leadership: it starts with you

• Learn how to become a leader
• Understand what self leadership is
• Consider how to overcome adversity/imposterism

Top tips for successful leadership

• Consider an individual’s leadership journey
• Understand how to harness your team’s potential
• Evaluate how to learn from others

If a blood smear could talk…

• Review how to make a good blood smear
• Recognise the most common erythrocytes abnormalities and understand their significance
• Recognise the most common leukocyte and platelet morphologic abnormalities and understand their significance

When is it worth asking an expert?

• Understand the limitations of in-house haematology testing
• Recognize when to perform confirmatory/ secondary testing
• Understand what an expert can bring to the table

Point-of-Care: the need for speed - racing through rapid tests

• Recognise and understand the different methodologies used in rapid POC test
• Discuss most common applications of rapid POC tests
• Identify the limitations of rapid POC tests

Point-of-Care: the need for speed - they are quick, but are we done and dusted?

• Review basic concepts of specificity and sensitivity and how this impacts interpretation of POC tests
• Examine what confirmatory tests are available
• Evaluate what the most appropriate next step may be