FECAVA Certificate in Small Animal Anaesthesia and Analgesia

Course overview

The FECAVA Certificate in Small Animal Anaesthesia and Analgesia lectures apply clinical and current knowledge of anaesthesia, pain management and fluid therapy. This course provides a foundation for clinical rotations in later parts of the programme. We want to provide a dynamic experience using bite-sized webinars that practitioners can work through at their convenience provided by the world's best clinical anaesthesiologists. The certificate consists of four modules: Module I: Introduction (fundamentals, behaviour, patient safety, ethics, pharmacology); Module II: Acute Pain Management (assessment, analgesia, case discussions); Module III: Foundations of Anaesthesia (drugs, monitoring, complications); Module IV: Special Patients: case discussions. Small animal anaesthesia/analgesia is covered using a sequential approach to performing an anaesthetic procedure, with a focus on drug protocols and choices, safety, monitoring and ultimately patient welfare. Clinical reasoning skills are developed as "special patient" case discussions are presented during the last module of the certification. Acute pain management is approached from a clinical viewpoint to ensure the practicioners will be equipped with skills to recognise and treat acute pain appropriately in a range of situations. The basics of local anaesthetic techniques are discussed to ensure best-practices and evidence-based approach to multimodal analgesia. This Certification also provides an overview of fluid therapy, acid-base balance and the impact of electrolytes disturbances on anaesthesia. Fluid therapy education is presented in a practical way with case discussions. Each lecture includes short multiple-choice quizzes (5 questions). Participants must achieve at least 80% correct answers (4 out of 5) to proceed to the next lecture.The Certificate is available in English for the moment.