Congress 2024- Thursday

Adverse food reactions

• Appreciate how common adverse food reactions in dogs and cats are and understand how they can exist as single entities or co-exist with AD
• What are the clinical signs of adverse food reactions in dogs and cats?
• How can we diagnose food reactions and what are the options? Why food serology is not always helpful.

Tips for a sucessful elimination diet trial

• How to select novel proteins or hydrolysed foods
• Understand the duration of food trials, foods to avoid, and potential pitfalls. Understand when a shortened food trial maybe useful
• Tips to increase owner compliance and successful food trials
• this recording will be available until end of October 2024

RCVS will be running a session in the Exhibition Theatre where Hayley Stinchon will explain (EMS) policy and guidance

Case-based approach to bacterial infections in dogs

• Understand the different types of bacterial skin infections of dogs - surface, superficial and deep
• Using clinical cases and images, be able to recognise and understand the visual appearance of these lesions
• To understand when to use topicals versus systemic treatment based on the type of infection (depth)

Skin and ear culture: why and when should I do it?

• Understand the circumstances when you should collect an ear and skin culture swab
• Assessment of the culture results: a case baesd approach. What do the results tell you and how should ythey be applied to the case?
• Acknowledge and understand the importance of antimicrobial stewardship and how this can be applied to dermatology cases - what can we do to avoid using systemic antibiotics
• this recording will be available until end of October 2024

Update on the prevention and treatment of arterial thromboembolism in cats

• Identify the main medications available for prevention of ATE in cats
• Identify risk factors associated with poor prognosis in cats with ATE
• Understand the treatment goals of ATE in cats

Diet-induced dilated cardiomyopathy

• Identify the breeds most commonly affected by taurine deficiency
• Understand the current knowledge and association between grain-free, legume rich diets (non-traditional diets) and DCM
• Understand the diagnosis and treatment strategies of diet induced DCM

Approach to challenging cats

• Understand the reasons for aggressive behaviour in cats
• Understand the appropriate response when experiencing feline aggression in the clinic
• Understand key principles of preventing feline aggression in the clinic

Approach to challenging dogs

• Understand the reasons for aggressive behaviour in dogs
• Understand the appropriate response when experiencing dog aggression in the clinic
• Understand key principles of preventing feline aggression in the clinic

Point-of-care ultrasound in emergency cases: is it cardio?

• Understand the main goals in POCUS
• Demonstrate a common POCUS protocol and identify useful echocardiographic views in POCUS
• Identify echo findings suggestive of heart failure in POCUS

Diuretic therapy in heart failure: what are the options?

• Identify common diuretics used in congestive heart failure
• Understand diuretic treatment strategies in acute and chronic heart failure (stage C)
• Discuss the rationale between using torasemide versus furosemide as first line diuretic treatment and in refractrory heart failure

Acromegaly

• Appreciate the importance of acromegaly in feline diabetes
• Know how to diagnose the condition, and specifically understand the importance of not relying on facial changes to identify the condition
• Be able to guide clients through the various treatment options

Hyperadrenocorticism

• Appreciate the importance of hyperadrenocorticism in canine and feline diabetes
• Know how to diagnose the condition
• Be able to treat canine and feline cases

Approach to environmental allergy testing

• Understand when and why to recommend allergy testing in dogs and cats, and appreciate it is not used for a diagnosis
• Understand the options available for allergy testing: IDT and serology and when to use one over the other
• How to interpret the allergy results: how does this help us and what to do next.

Immunotherapy options

• Discuss the options available for delivery of immunotherapy
• Understand how and why immunotherapy works and the success rate of using this therapy
• Understand when to assess the response to immunotherapy and how this might be done
• this recording will be available until end of October 2024

Flat faced breeds and skin/ear disease

• Common skin issues of brachycephalic dogs
• Appreciate that skin disease in brachy dogs appears to be more severe and requires early intervention
• What are the challenges we have with treating these patients? Treatment limitations and behavioural changes
• Understand the common ear diseases of brachycephalic dogs including: AD, narrow ears, PSOM
• Learn how to recognise PSOM as a differential and how to fully investigate
• How to treat PSOM, the current options and preventative options