Who should attend

The course will be of help to everyone from first opinion clinicians and technical staff through to clinicians from more specialised exotic practices as well as anyone providing out of hours emergency cover for rabbits and other small mammals

What the course will help the attendees to do

• Perform effective cardiopulmonary resuscitation in rabbits and small mammals
• Know what drugs to give and when to administer them to emergency crashing rabbits and small mammals
• Know what diagnostic tests are of use in critically ill rabbits and small mammals and how to interpret them
• Understand how to continue stabilisation and care of the critically ill rabbit or small mammal after initial resuscitation

Learning objectives 

• How to perform effective cardiopulmonary resuscitation in rabbits and small mammals
• How to perform tracheostomy and intubation of rabbits
• How to interpret clinical pathology and diagnostic imaging results from critical care rabbit and small mammal cases
• Understand what drugs should form part of the typical crash trolley for rabbits and small mammals and when to use them
• Calculate fluid and nutritional supplement rates of administration for rabbits and small mammals