Date 16th - 17th December 2008
Venue University of Cambridge
Tutors
Frances Henson MA VetMB PhD CertES(Orth) CertEM(Int Med) MRCVS
RCVS Specialist in Equine Surgery (Orthopaedics)
University of Cambridge
Jessica Kidd DVM BA CertES(Orth) DipECVS MRCVS
University of Cambridge
Graham Munroe BVSs PhD CertEO DESM DiplECVS FRCVS
Flanders Veterinary Services, Berwickshire
Course outline
This course will help you to develop a structured and repeatable approach to each of your lame horse patients. Practical sessions under the guidance of the expert and approachable tutors will allow you to practise essential techniques that you need to be competent at, in order to localise the lameness. You will perform static and dynamic examinations of a lame horse, practise nerve and joint blocks in wetlab sessions and use ultrasonography to assist in reaching a diagnosis. You will develop your practical radiographic interpretation skills in film-reading sessions and get an update on more advanced imaging modalities and their place in the diagnosis of lameness. Information on medical and surgical management options for your patients will be put into practice with clinical case examples.
Specific areas to be covered include:
• Carrying out a clinical examination of a lame horse in practice
• Localising the lameness: effective perineural and intra-articular analgesia
• Radiography of the forelimb and hindlimb- what does it tell you?
• How to use ultrasound in the lame horse
• Indications for nuclear scintigraphy and MRI in the diagnosis of lameness
• Medical and surgical options for management of lameness
Course fee
£650.00 + VAT (£763.75)
Includes two days tuition, course
notes, refreshments and lunches