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Continuing Education
Tips to improve your confidence and results when performing common surgical procedures.
Summary
This course is targeted for the private practitioner who desires to take his/her surgical experience to the next level by performing more advanced surgical techniques. In a combination of classroom and laboratory sessions, we will couple data and background information with hands-on experience to increase your proficiency and confidence.
Please bring scrubs for both days of this course.
Registration
Online registration — Save time and effort — register online today!
Registration fee: $425.00
Course fee includes continental breakfasts, refreshment breaks, lunches, instructional materials, and wet lab.
This course will provide 14.0 CE hours of credit. Full attendance is required to receive total CE credits.
Please bring scrubs for both days of this course.
Course Cancellation Policy
Full refunds are available for cancellations made by 5 p.m. ET, September 30, 2011. No refunds will be issued thereafter. If a course is cancelled for any reason, the College of Veterinary Medicine will not be responsible for any charges related to travel.
Location
All sessions are held at the College of Veterinary Medicine. Please use the ramp entrance to the main Vet Med building. Follow the directions here or contact Melissa Kilpatrick at melissak@uga.edu.
Accommodations
Hotel Indigo
The block code for special rate is UGA
**Release date is September 14, 2011
Rate — $109.00
706.546.0430
www.athensdowntownhotel.com
Holiday Inn
The block code for special rate is VMS
**Release date is September 23, 2011
Rate — $94.00
706.549.4433
Holiday Inn Express
The block code for special rate is VMS
**Release date is September 23, 2011
Rate — $89.00
706.546.8122
Click here for a list of other area hotels, including the hotel within the Georgia Center for Continuing Education.
Instructors
Karen Cornell, DVM, PhD, DACVS
Associate Professor, Small Animal Surgery
MaryAnn Radlinsky, DVM, DACVS
Associate Professor, Small Animal Surgery
Chad Schmiedt, DVM, DACVS
Assistant Professor, Small Animal Surgery
Tentative Agenda
Note: Please bring scrubs for both days of this course.
| Saturday, October 15, 2011 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Time | ||
| 8–8:20 | Registration & Continental Breakfast | |
| 8:20-8:30 | Welcome | |
| 8:30-9:15 | Esophagostomy tubes: Placing the lowest-risk, highest-volume tube | |
| 9:15-10:00 | Gastropexy – it’s not just after GDV. When and how to perform prophylacticgastropexy. | |
| 10:00–10:15 | Break | |
| 10:15-10:45 | Small intestinal surgery: Tips on how to maximize luminal diameter after enterotomy. | |
| 10:45-11:30 | Important aspects of urinary tract anatomy and surgery | |
| 11:30-12:00 | Tube cystostomy: Tips on which tube to use and how to place and maintain them. | |
| 12:00-1:00 | Lunch | |
| 1:00-1:30 | Cystotomy: ventral vs dorsal; single vs double layer closure. What is the evidence? What do we do? | |
| 1:30-2:00 | Episoplasty made simple: Correction of the chronic, recurrent UTI. | |
| 2:00-2:15 | Laboratory Orientation | |
| 2:15-5:00 | Laboratory • Esophagostomy tube placement • Gastropexy • Tube cystostomy • Episoplasty |
|
| Sunday, October 16, 2011 | ||
| 8:00–8:30 | Continental Breakfast | |
| 8:30–9:30 | Perineal urethrostomy –When, why, and how? Tips on preventing the most common complications. | |
| 9:30-10:15 | The incontinent dog: Why? What can we do? | |
| 10:15-10:45 | Ovariectomy or ovariohysterectomy? What is the evidence? | |
| 10:45-11:00 | Break | |
| 11:00-11:45 | Open wound management: What is the latest in topical wound care? | |
| 11:45-12:30 | Closing the large wound: Tips on simple techniques to achieve closure. | |
| 12:30-1:15 | Lunch | |
| 1:15-2:00 | The principles of oncologic surgery: Tips for achieving complete resection | |
| 2:00-2:15 | Laboratory orientation | |
| 2:15-4:00 | Laboratory: • Perineal urethrostomy • Tumor resection • Skin reconstruction |
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Additional Information
Please review our calendar page for travel and parking information, as well as details about our conference policies.
Contacts
For further information about this and other continuing education opportunities, contact Melissa Kilpatrick, Continuing Education: 706.542.1451 or melissak@uga.edu
This page was last updated on July 22, 2011.
