Advanced Abdominal Surgery
Tracking # 20-809612
$139.00
Course overview
In this course you will learn about advanced abdominal surgical procedures from engaging and relevant recorded lectures that include detailed discussion of diagnostics, tools for prognostication, preoperative patient stabilization, surgical anatomy and surgical techniques. In addition to the didactic lectures, you will have access to a combination of intraoperative video clips and detailed, narrated cadaveric demonstrations of gastrectomy using a stapler, splenectomy (demo of traditional ligatures AND use of a vessel sealant device) and cholecystojejuno-duodenostomy. Management of acute abdomen including septic peritonitis, hemoabdomen and diseases of the pancreas are comprehensively discussed.
Subject areas
This course counts toward the state boards and subject areas below.
American Association of Veterinary State Boards
Veterinarian
Ordre des Medecins Veterinaires du Quebec
Veterinarian
Disclosure statements
· Manage various causes of acute abdomen, including septic peritonitis, hemoabdomen, and uroabdomen
· Familiarize yourself with the management of gastric dilatation volvulus
· Determine the prognosis of gastric dilatation volvulus through lactate levels
· Learn the different types of gastropexy that are available to prevent a recurrence of volvulus
· Learn how to perform a gastrectomy with stapling equipment
· Utilize a vessel sealant device to complete a safe and fast splenectomy in dogs with a hemoabdomen
· Understand the different conditions requiring surgery of the liver, the gall bladder, and the pancreas