The Vet’s North

Nutritional Management of Endocrine and Metabolic Diseases, Including Hyperlipidaemia

This session is mostly practice oral exam - discussion is case-based and focused on elements that haven't yet been examined on. We touch on nutrition, but only briefly!

Nutritional Management of Hepatobiliary, GIT and Pancreatic Disease

Membership prep! We're getting serious now. This session is all quiz based, with questions around pathogenesis and nutritional management of liver, GIT and pancreatic disease, with a few curly off topic ones thrown in.

Nutrition Principles and Obesity, Cachexia and Sarcopenia

Getting close to memberships time! We talk about obesity, its causes and effects, as well as cachexia. Today's session has some pop quiz questions on unrelated topics for our incredibly clever membership candidates to practice with too.

Pharmacology of Anti-inflammatory and Immunosuppressive Drugs

Today we work through the mechanism of action of common anti-inflammatories and immunomodulatory drugs, and the intersection of inflammatory and immune-mediated disease. Membership exams approaching fast, some pop quiz questions in here!

Antimicrobial Drug Therapy

An informal chat about antibiotic therapy, including when it’s practical and important to perform culture and susceptibility testing, MICs and whether we should ask for them, the concept of tissue penetration of antibiotics and thoughts on dosing regimes, all discussed while keeping antimicrobial stewardship in mind.

Specific Toxicoses - Case Based

Toxicity is a great way to review organ physiology. Today we discuss the mechanisms and management of toxicities including Paracetemol, NSAIDs, Tremorgenic toxins, and acute nephrotoxicity (including some controversial chat around the role of diuresis before there is evidence of renal injury).

Toxicology 101

How are toxins processed? What happens when we exceed the normal detoxification pathways and toxicity develops? What decontamination strategies do we have to limit risk of toxicity developing? We unlock the secrets of cytochrome P450, P glycoprotein efflux pumps and glucuronidation in this tutorial... well, not really, but we talk a lot about how confusing it is!

CPR

In this tutorial, we run through changes to the CPR guidelines, using the phenomenal resource https://recoverinitiative.org/2024-guidelines/. It is so reassuring to be seeing some evidence-based consensus in this field!

Sonography Tutorial

Internal Training with The Vet’s North Team.

Case Discussion: Gall bladder pathology A review of wall changes and different treatment recommendations.

Sepsis / SIRS, Anaphylaxis, and Hyperthermia

We get deep into the clinical presentation and management of sepsis and SIRS - most common causes, pathogenesis of the inflammatory response, and organs / systems effected. We also cover the different presentations and management of Anaphylaxis.

Neurologic, Lower Urinary Crises and Acute Abdomen

Today we discuss the different types of bleeding and neurological disorders we can see in emergency presentations (where my smart colleagues teach me stuff about transfusion medicine!). The last section of the tutorial is how to differentiate a surgical from a non-surgical acute abdomen, some cool tricks in this bit!

Circulatory Shock, Bleeding and Respiratory Emergencies

Today, we cover the definitions of the different forms of shock, tests to identify failure of oxygen delivery meeting oxygen requirements, and emergency management for the different forms.