ContinuEd Veterinary Ski Symposium
Topics
| Wound Management in Small Animals - Dr. Bonnie Campbell | |
| Getting to Granulation: Effective Management of the Challenging Open Wound | |
| As a clinician, your objectives when you're faced with a wound are like those of the white blood cell: to rid the wound of contamination and necrotic tissue and to provide an environment that promotes granulation. We’ll discuss how to best get there with accurate assessment of tissue viability and appropriate techniques for wound lavage and debridement. You'll learn how to use moist wound healing techniques to the patient’s best advantage, including proper selection and application of moisture retentive dressings (such as calcium alginate, hydrophilic foam, hydrocolloid, hydrogel, and polyurethane film), and application of negative pressure wound therapy. | |
| Reconstructive Surgery for the Small Animal Patient | |
| Once there's a healthy wound bed, there are variety of options to close a wound. Using a series of case examples, we’ll discuss proper selection and application of a variety of surgical techniques that will improve your chances of succcess. We'll look at when and how to close a variety of wounds, understanding how reconstructive techniques work, maintaining or establishing blood supply, skin stretching, and effective peri-operative management to maximize success. | |
| The Amazing Omentum: Healing Properties and Surgical Applications | |
| Omentalization is the process of surgically placing the omentum in a specific site to take advantage of its ability to promote hemostasis, fluid drainage, vessel and nerve regrowth, wound healing, and resolution of infection. Omentalization is not limited to the abdominal cavity; the omentum can be effectively lengthened and then tunneled subcutaneously to wounds on the torso, neck, or limbs; it can also be passed through the diaphragm to omentalize the chest. We will discuss clinical applications of the omentum, such as reinforcement of gastrointestinal surgery sites, draining of non-resectable cysts or abscesses, stimulating healing in stalled wounds, and treatment of chylothorax. | |
| Bites, Bullets, & Branches: Successful Management of Penetrating Injuries | |
| Penetrating wounds are deceiving! An innocuous-looking skin puncture can hide deep damage caused by vascular injury, strong forces (e.g. crushing, tearing, shearing), creation of dead space, and/or inoculation of bacteria or foreign material. Local inflammation can progress to systemic inflammatory response syndrome or sepsis. We’ll discuss effective management of penetrating wounds, including proper imaging, aggressive surgical debridement and drainage, and appropriate antibiotic use. | |
| Small Animal Dermatology - Dr. James Noxon | |
| The Dermatology Data Base: The KEYS to Managing Dermatology Cases | |
| Misdiagnosis is one of the most common causes of treatment failure, and it's been said that it happens most often when you fail to look at things that are right in front of you. The basic tests in dermatology are, without a doubt, the most important diagnostic procedures. And sure... we were probably taught many or most of those tests in school. But if you're not making wise choices of which tests to do when, you'll miss the diagnosis. As they say..."Garbage in, garbage out". In this session, we will review the indications, techniques, and tips to make these test crucial to your practice of dermatology. Armed with the right information, you'll increase your chances of successfully managing that next challenging dermatology case. | |
| Dermatology Vignettes - Case-Based Discussions | |
| Hang on to your seats! In this session, we are going to touch on a wide variety of related and unrelated dermatology topics that will provide timely information and insight into the diagnosis and management of dermatology cases. Chances are, you may have seen some of these problems and not known what they were. Everything from food allergy to funky diseases will be touched on in this free-for-all dermatology rumble! Through case examples, we'll tackle many of the most common skin problems you see. | |
| Six Things About Otitis I Wish I'd Known in Practice | |
| What makes managing patients with otitis so hard? The answer lies in understanding the structure and function of the ear, along with the pathophysiology, pharmacology and treatment options for otitis. In this session, we will expand your thought process about otitis to allow you to be more successful in managing otitis cases... and learn to enjoy seeing those patients walk through the door! | |