Recorded Tutorials
We run Zoom CPD tutorials fortnightly at 8am Fridays AEST.
These are casual, case-based and well suited to people with an interest in small animal internal medicine. Please join the CPD Tutorial Group by subscribing here.
Interventional Medicine (Radiology / Endoscopy)
Interventional medicine might seem a bit unapproachable for most patients / cases / clinics… In this tutorial, we run through all the contrast studies and interventional techniques that are approachable in your clinics. How do we diagnose an obstructed Ureter? How can we pick up ectopic ureters? This is a practical guide to what you can do with a bottle of iodine and an X-ray machine!
ECG and Echocardiography
Basics of echocardiography - focusing on 4 views, the right long axis, right 5 chamber, right short axis apical, and right short axis LA/Ao view. We apply this to different disease processes and what you'd expect to see. Anyone looking for an extension on this tutorial should follow up with this internal echo tutorial we did for our sonographers. We touch on ECG in the last 10 mins too!
https://youtu.be/kUuo--fMy_0?si=FPUyUDJ9KafXFtqy
Centesis and Biopsy Techniques = How Not to Annoy Your Pathologists!
Actually more of an extension of the POCUS exam discussion from last tutorial. Today we run through what to expect and what questions you can answer with thoracic ultrasonography. We just spend 10 minutes discussing different sample preparation techniques to maximise the pathologists chance of getting an answer.
Point of Care Ultrasound Tutorial
There's a lot of buttons on the ultrasound machine, which ones do I need? which ones will mess everything up? We run through the three settings that will help you in an emergency, and the views that can help you find free fluid, renal pelvic dilation, ileus, and bladder pathology, pneumothorax and more.
Analysing all the Fluids... Joint, Urine, Effusions & CSF
Case based discussion around different presentations of abdominal and thoracic effusions, as well as some tips and tricks for what to look for on your in house urinalysis.
Lytes and Calcium... Interested? Na, K, Na...
We run through those pesky blood abnormalities, looking at changes in sodium potassium and calcium. We talk about a system for reviewing whether these changes are significant, or whether we can ignore them!
Liver, Lipid and Lipase Biochem Changes
Starting from the top... How is fat digested, absorbed, and utilised? What forms does it take? Why don't dogs have strokes and heart attacks associated with their high cholesterol? Why is hyperlipidaemia a problem then?
Protein, Glucose and Renal Value Biochem Changes
Where does protein come from? Where does it go? What processes might cause alterations in serum and plasma proteins? We run through some biochem examples and use them as a basis to discuss protein physiology and pathology. We also touch on derangements in glucose, and in particular the guidelines on diagnosing diabetes https://www.esve.org/alive/search.aspx. Last but not least... detecting early renal injury!
The CBC and All its Variations
Weird CBC results? When to ignore, when to look further, and when to get really, really worried...
Second Membership Practice Exam
Today's practice exam is a little less formal than the last. We run through some exam technique tips thanks to seasoned examiner Dr Geoff Gibbons. We do some radiographic interpretation, ECG discussion with arts and crafts on Zoom whiteboard, and bit of genitourinary case discussion.
Membership Exam Practice
Today is preparation for the membership oral exam. We run through 3.5 (we ran out of time!) practice questions, giving everyone a chance to have a go at answering. Please thank everyone who participated and consented to be recorded, its not easy putting yourself on the spot in front of YouTube!
PU/PD, Pollakiuria and Incontinence, Haematuria
Today's tutorial is designed to test you... We run through practice questions regarding PU/PD and disorders of micturition to keep our attendees on their toes! We also cover a fair bit of renal physiology, because we're medicine vets and we can't help it!
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