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

This session in the Exhibition Theatre with Georgia Woods-Lee covers how to communicate with pet owners concerning obesity care

Joy in work

• Discover why we should strive to find joy in work
• Consider how to overcome pebbles in your shoe
• Learn how to lead your team to joy

Join our panel of speakers as they discuss "leading with integrity":

• Discuss the importance of integrity in leadership and in teamwork
• Consider the importance of integrity in recruitment; ensuring consistent value alignment, culture and team fit
• Explore what success in this area looks like.

The art and science of managing chronic pain

• Increased knowledge of the mechanisms that lead to development of chronic pain
• Increased awareness of the ongoing and longer-term physiological impact of chronic pain
• Expand knowledge of rehabilitation techniques and pharmaceuticals that can target, or prevent, chronic pain

Bodyweight: obesity and OA

• Understand why obesity is not benign, but should be considered ‘biologically active’
• Understand the pathophysiology of obesity, specifically in reference to OA
• Increased awareness of the evidence for pro-active nutritional management of obesity as a preventative and therapeutic strategy for OA

Multimodal management is progressive OA management

• Understand importance of multimodal management of OA
• Increased knowledge of the elements that define multimodal OA management
• Understand the tiered format that can often be of use when manging OA patients

How do rehab techniques enhance Multimodal management of OA

• Understand how rehabilitation can play a key role in OA management
• Increased awareness of the timing and relevance of various types of rehabilitation of use in OA patients
• Understand some of the main practical considerations for performing rehabilitation in clinic

Preventative healthcare

• Nutrition, weight, management, parasite tx, vaccines etc, Ageing

Puppy consults

• What would you include within a new puppy nurse consult?
• How often would you see a puppy?
• Training tips & owner education for the new puppy

Kitten consults

• What would you include within a new kitten nurse consult?
• How often would you see a new kitten for a nurse clinic?
• Owner education on how to settle a new kitten in to a household

Systematic thoracic radiograph interpretation

• Know (and utilize) a systematic, “outside-in” approach to thoracic radiograph interpretation
• Understand a systematic approach to interpreting extrathoracic structure and pleural space pathology
• Be able to differentiate pleural space pathology from normal anatomy (e.g. differentiating pneumothorax from peripheral pulmonary parenchyma and pleural effusion from pulmonary vasculature)

Case discussion: extrathoracic structures and pleural space

• Know normal extra-thoracic and pleural space anatomy and radiographic appearance
• Apply anatomic knowledge and systematic approach to the extra-thoracic structures and pleural space in selected case examples

The bouquet of spinal neurological emergencies: when one has to refer

• To appreciate the importance of clearly defining the problem to differentiate myelopathic versus non-myelopathic diseases
• To appreciate that ‘thinking pathophysiologically’ is essential in order to rank your differential list and to define/refine your problem
• To develop a diagnostic approach to the patient with spinal disease

Rehabilitation and nursing considerations

• To understand when physiotherapy is warranted and when not
• To understand what to consider when to nurse for the recumbent patient
• To comprehend how to avoid complications in the non-ambulatory patient

Spinal trauma

• To appreciate the importance of a different approach to the neurological trauma patient
• To appreciate that ‘thinking pathophysiologically’ is essential in order to diagnose and treat the trauma patient
• To develop a diagnostic approach to the spinal trauma case

Head trauma

• To develop a diagnostic approach to the head trauma case
• To understand the importance of diagnostics and their limitations in the trauma patient
• To understand that sometimes doing less is more

Top Tips for the neurological examination

• To be able to perform a neurological examination in a cat and in a dog
• To understand the different parts of the neurological examination and what they are
• To develop a basic understanding of the function and role of the different parts of the nervous and muscular system

Clinical reasoning in neurology

• To comprehend that “thinking pathophysiologically” is essential for neurological problem solving
• To be able to prioritise a neurological problem list using the five fingers rule
• To understand how to prioritise a diagnostic plan

Lower urinary tract infections: part I

• Understand the definition of sporadic bacterial cystitis versus subclinical bacteriuria, recurrence and relevance to treatment
• Review current recommendations for the clinical management of sporadic bacterial cystitis
• Indicate important clinical considerations for the patient with recurrent bacterial cystitis

Lower urinary tract infections: part II

• Review important steps in urine microbiology; from sample collection to shipment and results
• Explore how your susceptibility profile is generated
• Interpret your minimum inhibitory concentration for bacterial cystitis
• 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