Course content
This course is designed to give the enthusiastic practitioner the hands on teaching, confidence and experience to handle all the commonly presented ‘exotic animal’ orthopaedic surgical cases. Case and patient consideration, diagnostics, prognostics (with respect to patient life style), preparation, surgery and post operative support will be covered. Case presentations ranging from hast flying atheletes, thos who carry their house on their backs, to fast running, jumping and thumping small mammals will be considered and taught. The management of such patient species varies greatly.
Who should attend
Certificate candidates, any enthusiastic exotic vets with a hunger to deal with the more challenging orthopaedic cases, at a level to maximize prognostic outcomes.
What the course will help the attendees to do
To understand the husbandry and management causes of fracture cases
To assess the prognostics in relation to quality of life and free living survival
To surgically correct all such fractures in all patients groups
Post operative management, recuperation and rehabilitation
Learning objectives
By the end of this course delegates should have a thorough understanding of:
Cause
Diagnosis
Management
Treatment
Post operative care of all common exotic patient orthopaedic cases |