Companion animal medical-surgical nursing
Companion animal medical-surgical nursing
The extraordinary development of Veterinary Medicine over the last decades has created the need for a growing stratification and multidisciplinary of teams and the specialization of its technicians. Thus, the need for requalification and specialization of veterinary nurses is urgent, particularly in the medical-surgical area of pet animals. The course covers the following topics:
• The patient in Emergency and Intensive Care
• The Intensive Care Unit
• Basic and Advanced Life Support: Nursing and Medicine the Team that saves
• Private Management of Critical Patients
• Continuing care: Physical rehabilitation
• Continuing care: Inpatient service
• Continuing Care: Oncology and palliative care
• Clinical analysis: from collection to analysis
• Diagnosis: radiology
• Exotic animal clinic
• Technical work in the surgical ward
• Surgical instrumentation
• Preparation of the surgical patient
• Anesthesia and pain management
• Anesthetic monitoring and equipment maintenance
• Patient recovery in the operating room
• Bandages and wound healing