Vets course

GPCert in Emergency Medicine and Surgery

ISVPS General Practitioner Certificate (GPCert).

Current interest in small animal accident and emergency medicine and surgery is greater now than ever before. This exciting modular course is dedicated to providing high quality, relevant, clinically useful information for the small animal practitioner. Information that is practically relevant is presented using an approach based around the major organ systems. The modules will assist delegates in consolidating their knowledge of medical and surgical emergency situations and help them develop a structured clinical approach to the emergency patient.

Datum

19. mars 2025 - 26. augusti 2026

Tidspunkt

23:00 - 22:00

Plats

Vetnordic kursuscenter, Korskildeeng 4, 2670 Greve, Denmark

Instruktör

A variety of professional veterinary speakers

Målgrupp

Vets

Språk

English

Antal moduler

97.000,00 kr

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Interactive discussions and clinical case material will be used to highlight important elements in successful patient management. This course will be of immense value to all veterinary surgeons and particularly those who see emergency cases as part of their regular workload. The Small Animal Emergency Medicine and Surgery programme is provided by Improve International in collaboration with the International School of Veterinary Postgraduate Studies (ISVPS).

Complete the program (all modules) and achieve the General Practitioner Certificate (GPCert) by passing the required assessments with the International School of Veterinary Postgraduate Studies (ISVPS).

Pricing

Early: From 87.300DKK Up to 90 days before course starts

Regular: From 97.000DKK Less than 90 days before course starts

All prices are exclusive of VAT.

Module 1 - The Initial Approach to the Emergency Patient Date: March 20th 2025 Speaker: Poppy Gant, BVSc MVETMED DiplACVECC MRCVS Learning objectives:

Describe triage systems and detail a suitable initial patient assessment
Describe emergency vascular access techniques including jugular and intra-osseous routes
Discuss the principles of pain management, stabilisation and monitoring
Identify health and safety concerns and precautions, including managing situations involving potential zoonoses and nosocomial infections in the intensive care unit
Discuss infectious diseases and preventative healthcare
Identify when transfusion should be considered, and recognise that there are no ‘magic’ numbers (originally this module was on Laboratory Diagnosis, Clinical Pathology and Transfusion Medicine module, but the speaker from that module advised to move this to the 1st module as the decision on whether or not to transfuse comes largely from the patient assessment of cardiovascular stability)
Compare techniques for venous access: sites, catheter placement, preparations and complications including advanced and intraosseous techniques
Module 2 - Support of the Recumbent Patient, Monitoring and Pharmacology Date: March 21st 2025 Speaker: Poppy Gant, BVSc MVETMED DiplACVECC MRCVS Speaker: Arangan Nagendran BVSc Dip E CVN AFH E A MRCVS Leaning objectives:
Recognise, assess and treat shock
Appreciate the indications for the different types of fluid therapy with their advantages and disadvantages, and explain the need for electrolyte supplementation
Outline acid-base balance and the approach to disturbances
Explain the need to monitor for complications during treatment and the importance of recording central venous pressure
Recognise and assess acute malnutrition
Discuss how to provide enteral, total parenteral and partial parenteral nutrition

Module 3 - Laboratory Diagnosis, Clinical Pathology and Transfusion Medicine Date: May 7th 2025 Speaker: Cassia Hare, VetMB MA DipACVP MRCVS Learning objectives:

Describe sampling techniques, sample processing, sample storage and data recording
Interpret microscopic features when examining blood smears, urinary sediment and basic cytology, and be able to diagnose common acute and chronic conditions seen in general practice
Assess haemostasis
Interpret clinical laboratory medicine information including haematology, biochemistry, electrolytes, and arterial and blood gas analyses
Select appropriate blood products and protocols to minimise adverse outcomes
Manage common conditions leading to haematological abnormalities that require transfusion

Module 4 - Anaesthesia, Analgesia and Sedation Techniques Date: May 8th 2025 Speaker: Maria Ángeles Jiménez Lozano, DVM MRCVS CVA Learning objectives:
Detail the approach to patient stabilisation prior to anaesthesia
Select appropriate parenteral and inhalational anaesthetic regimes and recognise their relative advantages and disadvantages
Differentiate sedation and anaesthesia
Identify anaesthetic equipment and monitoring techniques, highlighting their advantages and disadvantages
Justify the selection of NSAIDs, opioids, local anaesthetic and topical treatment options for the emergency patient
Explain the pharmacokinetics, potential interactions and adverse effects of commonly used therapeutic agents, including anti-microbials and antiparasiticides in addition to anaesthetics and anti-inflammatories, in the emergency patient
Decide about the use of other drugs including neuromuscular blocking agents and sedatives in the emergency patient

Module 5 - Neurological Emergencies Date: August 25th 2025 Speaker: Arangan Nagendran, BVSc Dip E CVN AFH E A MRCVS Learning objectives:
Describe how to perform a neurological examination
Select appropriate diagnostic tests, including radiography and CSF analysis, and apply them to individual cases
Manage common neurological emergencies including head trauma, traumatic brain injury, meningoencephaltis of unknown origin (MUO) and seizures
Module 6 - Toxicologic Emergencies Date: August 26th 2025 Speaker: Daria Starybrat, DVM PGCertVMS MVetMed DACVECC DECVECC MRCVS Learning objectives:
Triage poisoned patients, recalling the general principles of intoxication
List common toxicities, including insecticides, molluscicides, rodenticides, herbicides, household preparations and plants, and recognise their clinical signs
Diagnose, manage and assess the prognosis of patients presenting with common poisonings

Module 7 - Renal, Urinary Tract, Reproductive and Paediatric Emergencies Date: November 12th 2025 Speaker: Emma Donnelly, BSc. (Hons), BVMS, DipECVECC, MRCVS Learning objectives:

Apply diagnostic techniques including laboratory investigations and imaging to these cases
Investigate and manage common renal and urinary tract emergencies, namely urethral obstruction, ureteral obstruction and management of nonsurgical acute kidney injury
Recognise the principles of renal, ureteral, bladder and urethral surgery
Recall the steps to correctly perform a cystocentesis
Identify the limitations, principles of placement and maintenance of urinary catheters
Recall the normal reproductive physiology
Identify the physiological aspects involved in the conversion from foetal to neonatal circulation
Diagnose and establish a management plan for common reproductive and paediatric emergencies, namely C section, mastitis, pyometra and prostatitis
Diagnose and establish a management plan for common paediatric emergencies, including hypothermia, hypoglycaemia, failure in passive immunity and malnutrition

Module 8 - Cardiovascular Emergencies and CPCR Date: November 13th 2025 Speaker: Chris Linney, BVSc MSc GPCertSAP CertAVP(VC) DipECVIM-CA (Cardiology) MRCVS Learning objectives:
Understand the cardiovascular assessment and management of patients presented with cardiovascular emergencies
Utilise and interpret a range of diagnostic techniques including ECGs, radiographs, echocardiographs and laboratory data
Diagnose and manage acute canine congestive heart failure, feline cardiomyopathy and aortic thromboembolism
Recognise and manage pericardial disease and understand how to perform pericardiocentesis
Identify and manage cardiac arrhythmias
Consider the predisposing factors likely to result in cardiac arrest, how this changes the approach to CPCR and determining prognosis following CPCR
Understand the various components of CPCR (DABC) and their various importance

Module 9 - Endocrine and Metabolic Emergencies Date: January 12th 2026 Speaker: Emma Donnelly, BSc. (Hons), BVMS, DipECVECC, MRCVS Learning objectives:

Detail the common metabolic conditions requiring urgent or emergency therapy
Be familiar with the impact of metabolic disturbances on the patient’s major body systems
Devise an approach to the diagnosis and management of common diseases including hypoadrenocorticism, DKA, thyroid storm and metabolic diseases related to hypoglycaemia
Understand key diagnostic tests and their application
Appreciate the complications encountered during therapy, their prevention and management

Module 10 - Respiratory Tract Emergencies Date: January 13th 2026 Speaker: Emma Donnelly, BSc. (Hons), BVMS, DipECVECC, MRCVS Learning objectives:

Understand the general approach to dyspnoea
Triage and create a management plan for patients in respiratory distress
Utilise and interpret a range of diagnostic techniques for respiratory patients including auscultation, radiography, endoscopy and arterial blood gas analysis to localise the underlying cause
Appreciate the methods of oxygen delivery and be able to monitor the efficacy of treatment
Review the problems associated with oxygen delivery
Explain the techniques available for drainage of the pleural cavity

Module 11 - The Principles of Surgery and the Approach to Trauma and Wound Management Date: March 9th 2026 Speaker: Silke Stein, DVM, Dr. med. vet., CertSAS, Dipl ECVS, MRCVS Learning objectives:

Stabilise a patient prior to surgery, plan surgery and manage complications
Appreciate the indications for immediate surgical intervention
Understand surgical asepsis, theatre protocol and the rational use of anti-microbials in surgical patients
Approach the acute management of haemostasis, abdominal and respiratory trauma
Approach external soft tissue wounds, myocardial injury and musculoskeletal trauma
Define damage-controlled resuscitation and identify the cases where it applies

Module 12 - Gastrointestinal Emergencies Date: March 10th 2026 Speaker: Silke Stein, DVM, Dr. med. vet., CertSAS, Dipl ECVS, MRCVS Learning objectives:

Describe the approach to the ‘acute abdomen’
Recognise common emergency conditions affecting the oesophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine, liver and pancreas
Formulate a diagnostic plan, including the use of imaging modalities, and describe effective monitoring strategies for common emergency conditions affecting the oesophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine, liver and pancreas
Select appropriate surgical interventions for gastrointestinal emergencies
Assess acute malnutrition
Recognise the procedures to provide enteral, total parenteral and partial parenteral nutrition
Create a diagnostic and management plan to approach the refeeding syndrome

Module 13 – Emergencies in Rabbits, Rodents and Cage Birds Date: May 11th 2026 Speaker: Adam Naylor, BVetMed MScWAH CertAVP(ZM) DipACZM DipECZM MRCVS Learning objectives:

Interpret the practical findings of a physical examination
Formulate a diagnostic approach to common presentations of emergency conditions
Manage common emergency conditions
Approach the anaesthesia and analgesia of these species in emergency situations

Module 14 – Ophthalmological Emergencies Date: May 12th 2026 Speaker: Pedro Malho, DipECVO CES OphtVét DVM MRCVS Learning objectives:

Describe how to perform a systematic ophthalmological examination, recognising its importance to properly access an emergency patient
Recognise normal features and variants when performing an ophthalmological examination, considering possible ophthalmological emergencies
Formulate a diagnostic approach to common presentations including red eye, ocular pain, ocular discharge, blindness, proptosis and retinal detachment
Describe medical and surgical management of common ocular conditions including corneal ulceration, uveitis and glaucoma
Recognise ocular manifestations of systemic disease
Select ocular medications and compare therapeutic agents

Module 15 - Emergency Surgery I - Practical Session Date: August 24th 2026 Speaker: Silke Stein, DVM, Dr. med. vet., CertSAS, Dipl ECVS, MRCVS Learning objectives:

Thoracocentesis and chest drain placement
Central venous catheter placement
Esophageal feeding tube
Urinary obstruction and urethrotomy/ urethrostomy

Module 16 - Emergency Surgery II - Practical Session Date: August 25th 2026 Speaker: Silke Stein, DVM, Dr. med. vet., CertSAS, Dipl ECVS, MRCVS

Approach to the acute abdomen and peritonitis
GDV and Gastropexy
Gastric feeding tube
Enterotomy / enterectomy/ splenectomy

Module 17 - Emergency Procedures- Practical Session Date: August 26th 2026 Speaker: Silke Stein, DVM, Dr. med. vet., CertSAS, Dipl ECVS, MRCVS

CPCR
Tracheotomy/ tracheostomy
Arterial blood collection
Nasal cannula placement
Venous cut down

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