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Congress on Demand 2021: Top Ten
What did our delegates enjoy most at the 2021 BSAVA virtual Congress? For the busy practitioner we have created a collection of top ten highlights from congress; these lectures were our most popular during the live event. This collection can be purchased as a standalone item, with a discount for BSAVA members. Visit our Congress on Demand information page for information about how to access the rest of our 2021 congress lectures.
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Identifying anaesthetic problems
BSAVA Congress Proceedings 2021Authors: Andrew Bell and Daniel PangHow capnography can help you identify problems with your patient: Capnography is arguably the most reliable and least error prone anaesthetic monitoring modality available, and it can contribute significantly to patient safety. Capnography relies on the measurement of inspired and expired carbon dioxide and primarily gives information about respiratory adequacy. Distinctive capnograph trace patterns can also alert the user to breathing system faults, endotracheal tube problems and acute lung pathology. Additionally, capnography is recommended to prognosticate and judge the effectiveness of chest compressions during CPR. This session discusses an approach to using and interpreting the capnograph to diagnose problems under anaesthesia.
What options you have in managing hypotension under anaesthesia if fluids don’t work: This session presents an update on recent advances and controversies in managing hypotension during general anaesthesia. Hypotension is one of the most common adverse effects of general anaesthesia. Options for managing anaesthetic-induced hypotension include: 1. reducing the inhaled anaesthetic requirement: this can be achieved directly or indirectly (e.g. by providing analgesia). 2. fluid administration: the efficacy and duration of crystalloid fluid boluses are limited but a number of tools are available to identify patients that will benefit from a fluid bolus (e.g. pulse pressure variation) 3. vasoactive agents (e.g. dexmedetomidine, dopamine, ephedrine): there are pros and cons to the different agents available. These options and practical approaches are discussed.
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Interactive cardiac radiography
BSAVA Congress Proceedings 2021Author Kieran BourgeatDo you worry that echocardiography has become the only method of imaging to evaluate cardiac patients? Unless you have managed to develop your echo skills, it would be easy to feel left behind. Even for vets with a particular imaging interest, echocardiography can be difficult to learn, even after undertaking practical CPD. Even the best echocardiographers cannot get as much information about the lungs and pulmonary vasculature as we can gain from reviewing a good chest radiograph. In this session, we will review how to get the most information about the heart that we can from thoracic radiographs in dogs and cats, and feature some top tips on how to differentiate cardiac from respiratory disease.
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Interactive cases with increased liver enzymes
BSAVA Congress Proceedings 2021Author Mike WillardA case-analysis of several cases ranging from mild disease to severe disease to things that look like liver disease but aren’t and things that look like other disease but are liver disease.
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Interactive lower respiratory radiography
BSAVA Congress Proceedings 2021Author Gawain HammondRadiology is the most widely-available imaging modality used to assess the lower respiratory tract in veterinary practice, although CT (if available) will generally give the optimal visualisation of the pulmonary structures. Interpretation of pulmonary disease on radiographs can be challenging, and obtaining images of good diagnostic quality is critical (some apparent pulmonary pathology can easily be mimicked by underexposed radiographs) – a complete radiographic examination is also important as unilateral lesions can be missed if only one radiograph is obtained. When assessing pulmonary pathology, important factors to consider are the lung pattern(s) present and their distribution – these will significantly affect the priority given to the potential differential diagnoses. The most common lung changes seen are bronchial, alveolar and nodular patterns – genuine unstructured interstitial and abnormal vascular patterns are less frequently identified. For a bronchial pattern, the most common causes are incidental age-related mineralisation and chronic bronchitis. Alveolar change (classically seen as air bronchograms) can be due to pulmonary collapse or consolidation – when consolidation is distributed ventrally (and often asymmetrically), this is more suggestive of aspiration pneumonia or haemorrhage, while bilaterally symmetric peri-hilar and caudodorsal change would be more typical of pulmonary oedema. In the UK, nodular lesions are most commonly seen with neoplastic disease.
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