Howard B. Seim III, DVM, Diplomate ACVS, is a Professor of Small Animal Surgery, Colorado State University. He is a graduate of Washington State University. He did his internship at Saskatoon, Canada, residency at the Animal Medical Center in New York City and has been teaching small animal surgery at Colorado State University for 30 years. He was Chief of the Small Animal Surgery section at Colorado State University from 1992 to 2002.

Who should attend

This course is designed for veterinarians interested in providing a higher level of surgical treatment for their patients suffering from urinary tract disorders that can be managed surgically. Techniques have been chosen that represent many of the common urinary tract disorders of dogs and cats that are seen everyday in your practice. If you have been thinking of incorporating more urinary surgery into your practice, this course is a must.

What the course will help the attendees to do

• Successfully retropulse even the toughest urethral calculus
• Guarantee you will never leave a stone behind after cystotomy of calculi
• Understand the techniques for basic canine and feline urethrostomy
• Successfully manage patients with traumatic uroabdomen

Learning objectives

• Identify important anatomic structures associated with each procedure
• The recent developments and new techniques in urinary tract surgery
• The tutors philosophical and technical views on urinary tract surgery procedures
• How to perform each surgical technique through extensive use of clinical case examples presented via video