Peak Performance in Anaesthesia

Course Synopsis – Advancing Your Anaesthesia Skills

Veterinary nurses play an integral role in patient peri-anaesthetic care and possess a wide range of skills that can be utilised throughout the anaesthetic period.

This interactive day will equip you with advanced anaesthesia skills such as ECG interpretation, invasive blood pressure placement and management, mechanical ventilation, CRI calculations, and some easy-to-use local anaesthetic techniques.

Lecture One: Understanding ECGs

Do you know your V-Fib from your V-Tach? When should you worry about a second degree AV block? Is lidocaine the answer to everything? If you want the answer to these questions and more, this is the session you’re looking for.

This lecture leaves all the big words at the door to help you really understand what is happening when we look at an ECG waveform. From cardiac anatomy to the electrical pathway, and what we are looking at when we see unusual complexes,…