Small Animal - Updates in Small Animal Emergency and Critical Care

We are delighted to introduce the line-up for this year's online mini modules in small animal Emergency and Critical Care. Ideal for all general practitioners seeing ECC cases, and designed to allow ECC Advanced Practitioners to top-up their designation-specific CPD with cutting-edge teaching.

This 100% online CPD mini-module has been developed and aimed towards the more experienced veterinary surgeon. The module content has been developed by veterinary specialists at the forefront of current veterinary research.

The module will provide you with 25 hours of designation specific CPD. Over four weeks we will cover a different weekly topic in an area in which there may have been changes, advances or controversy in recent years. Each week contains lectures, group meetings hosted by referral vets in the subject area, as well as readings and multiple-choice questions. 

 

Week 1: 3rd November 2025 - 'Managing the trauma patient' with Ludivine Boiron

  1. Crucial first steps: stabilisation of the polytrauma patient
  2. Thoracic trauma: diagnosis and treatment
  3. Traumatic brain injury: from patient presentation to emergency stabilisation
  4. Urinary trauma: diagnosis, emergency interventions, urinary diversion and definitive treatment

Week 2: 10th November 2025 - 'Dyspnoeic emergencies' with James McMurrough

  1. Saving their life – the critical period between admission and stabilisation
  2. Is it the heart? A comprehensive review of the diagnosis and treatment of congestive heart failure, arrythmias and thromboembolic disease
  3. Is it the lungs? Diagnosing and treating emergencies of the pulmonary parenchyma and pulmonary space.
  4. How this looks in the clinic. Using real cases to turn theory into practice.

Week 3: 17th November - Break Week

Week 4: 24th November 2025 - 'Neurological emergencies' with Sinziana Radulescu

  1. Confidently managing the status epilepticus patient
  2. Traumatic brain injury – diagnostic imaging and in-patient care
  3. Recognising and managing Hepatic Encephalopathy (HE)
  4. The Vestibular Patient: When (not) to worry

Week 5: 1st December 2025 - 'Emergency soft tissue surgery' with Dylan Payne

Gall bladders and bile ducts

  1. Diagnosing and stabilising the biliary emergency
  2. Surgical management of the biliary emergency patient

Feline perineal urethrostomy

  1. Indications, patient stabilisation and preparation
  2. How to perform feline perineal urethrostomy

Start date: 3rd November 2025

Cost: £435