This year’s annual ECC UK Congress will be delivered 100% virtually. Unlike anything you may have seen before, our event promises so much more than just webinars!
We’re partnering with vFairs, the leading provider of global virtual events to create a fully interactive online learning and networking experience for veterinary professionals. Our virtual Congress will offer delegates:
Aimed at ECC veterinary surgeons and advanced veterinary nurses
Suitable for veterinary nurses and those starting out in the profession
Relevant for advanced practitioners who are in possession of their certificate, or those studying towards it as well as experienced ECC veterinary surgeons
Remember that you are important, too! Offering advice on how to look after ourselves and our colleagues
Taking presenters back to the first time they dealt with a certain situation - we all started somewhere!
Appropriate for leaders looking to get the very best from their teams
Daniel Lewis
VetMB MA CertVA DACVECC DECVECC MRCVS
VetMB MA CertVA DACVECC DECVECC MRCVS
Vets Now
Following graduation in 1995 from The University of Cambridge, Dan worked in mixed practice for five years, where he gained the RCVS Certificate in Veterinary Anaesthesia. In 2000, he moved to Petmedics, a large hospital-based emergency clinic in Manchester, where he remained for eight years.
In 2008 Dan embarked upon a residency at The Royal Veterinary College, obtaining his Diploma in Emergency & Critical Care in 2011. Following this, Dan spent a period in charge of the ICU at Bristol vet school before returning to Petmedics. Dan joined the Vets Now 24/7 Emergency and Specialty Hospital, Glasgow in January 2015 as part of our existing ECC team and has since been promoted to National ECC Lead.
Dan is interested in all aspects of critical care, but particularly in septic patients and poorly cats.
Miles Hilton-Barber
Blind adventurer and international motivational speaker
Blind adventurer and international motivational speaker
Since the age of 50, Hilton-Barber has set numerous world records undertaking extreme events across all seven continents of our world in the fields of mountaineering, desert and polar ultra-marathons, power-boat racing, scuba-diving, motor-racing and long distance, aerobatic and supersonic flying amongst other achievements. He has spoken at over 1,500 corporate events in 74 countries to date, sharing his life philosophy that “The only limits in your life are those you accept yourself”!
Hilton-Barber’s personal “Pandemic” experience was unexpectedly going blind in his early 20’s, having to face the daunting prospect of living the rest of his life in total darkness. His quality of life and level of success was radically transformed at the age of 50, not through sight restoration, but through changing his attitude to his circumstances. “Quality of life, and our ability to be happy, fulfilled and successful is not dependant on our circumstances, pandemic or not, but on our response to them”
Jo Beckett
BSc(Hons) MSc ClinPsyD CPsychol FHEA
BSc(Hons) MSc ClinPsyD CPsychol FHEA
Time to Thrive Ltd
Dr Jo Beckett is a Chartered Principal Clinical Psychologist with over 20 years in the NHS. She has worked with people across the lifespan suffering from emotional distress, mental illness, cognitive impairment and physical ill-health in both community and acute medical settings. Jo has postgraduate training in a variety of theory-driven and empirically supported therapeutic approaches (e.g. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Systemic Therapy, Compassion Focussed Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing, Motivational Interviewing). Jo is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and has worked as a University Lecturer teaching psychology on both undergraduate and postgraduate degree programmes, and also medical students. Together, with Dr Jess Brown, Jo set up Time to Thrive Ltd to offer private therapy, mental wellbeing awareness, resilience training and consultation to schools and private businesses. Jo is a member of the Division of Clinical Psychology and Neuropsychology in the British Psychological Society and is registered with the HCPC and EMDR Association UK.
Jess Brown
BSc(Hons) PGDip ClinPsyD CPsychol
BSc(Hons) PGDip ClinPsyD CPsychol
Time to Thrive Ltd
Dr Jess Brown is an HCPC registered Principal Clinical Psychologist who has worked in mental health and emotional wellbeing services for over 20 years. Jess has a postgraduate diploma in paediatric neuropsychology as well as specialist training in a range of psychological models such as CBT, systemic therapy, CFT and ACT, and currently works therapeutically with both adults and children in an NHS hospital setting. Alongside her clinical work, Jess is passionate about making psychological models accessible to multi-disciplinary colleagues. She has extensive experience in writing and delivering training and has been a conference keynote speaker. She offers reflective practice, psychological skills training, consultation and supervision and is currently involved in the development of initiatives to support staff teams in the NHS. Through Time to Thrive Ltd, Jess and Dr Jo Beckett extend the reach of this focus, working alongside businesses and schools to understand their specific challenges and develop practical psychological initiatives to build resilience and promote wellbeing.
Despite our best efforts, there will be times when work is especially challenging. This lecture is about what to do at those times – in that moment and just afterwards, when things can feel overwhelming, unmanageable, and shocking. We will talk you through practical strategies for yourself and your team, guiding you through the latest evidence on avoiding further psychological distress and building resilience. We will also explore how to spot when further help is needed, and where to seek support. This lecture is for everyone who wishes to learn how to manage these times in a psychologically safe way.
Claire Sharp
BSc BVMS(Hons) MS MANZCVS DACVECC
BSc BVMS(Hons) MS MANZCVS DACVECC
Murdoch University
Dr Claire Sharp is a senior lecturer in small animal emergency and critical care in the School of Veterinary Medicine at Murdoch University in Perth, Australia. Claire originally obtained her veterinary degree from Murdoch in 2002, after which she moved to the USA for her rotating internship at Oklahoma State University, followed by an ECC internship, residency, and Masters degree at the University of Missouri. Claire then worked in the ECC section at Tufts University for 6 years before returning to Australia. Claire’s special interests include trauma, sepsis, coagulation, and transfusion medicine. Claire has recently been involved in the American College of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care (ACVECC) Consensus on the Rational Use of Antithrombotics in Veterinary Critical Care (CURATIVE), the ACVECC Veterinary Committee on Trauma, and the ACVIM consensus statement on the diagnosis and treatment of IMHA.
Haemorrhage is one of the main causes of death in trauma patients, and so, good trauma resuscitation can be key to a successful outcome. It starts with recognising shock as part of your primary survey, and with the aid of point-of-care blood diagnostics and continues with prompt and targeted resuscitation. This lecture will review the aforementioned diagnostic approach, as well as the use of blood products, antifibrinolytics, and damage control surgery as part of trauma resuscitation.
John Williams
MA VetMB LLB CertVR DipECVS FRCVS
MA VetMB LLB CertVR DipECVS FRCVS
Vets Now
John is a graduate of Cambridge University Veterinary School. He has dedicated his career to working with small animals (pets) and has focussed on soft tissue surgery. John has worked primarily in the North West of England at both the University of Liverpool, where he was Head of the Division of Small Animal Studies and more recently in private practice in Cheshire. John has a keen interest in all aspects of soft tissue surgery, particularly emergency surgery, damage control surgery, portosystemic shunts and minimally invasive surgery. John is a leader in his field of expertise. As well as practising, John is also an active educator and regularly speaks in the UK, Europe and the USA, sharing his knowledge of small animal soft tissue surgery with other veterinary professionals.
This lecture will discuss surgical procedures in the emergency setting, including a brief discussion of how extensive such interventions should be and when early referral is indicated, as well as when surgeries should be performed for greatest impact.
Megan Brashear
BS RVT VTS(ECC)
BS RVT VTS(ECC)
Purdue University Veterinary Teaching Hospital
Megan graduated in 2000 with a BS in Veterinary Technology. She has enjoyed working in emergency and critical care since 2000 and is currently the Small Animal Veterinary Nursing Manager at the Purdue University Veterinary Teaching Hospital in West Lafayette, Indiana, where she oversees the technician supervisors as well as teaching and training technicians and students on the hospital floor. She loves the opportunity to travel and lecture, sharing her knowledge with veterinary technicians and nurses around the world.
Emergency surgery is just that – an emergency – that often needs to happen as soon as possible. But immediate anaesthesia should not be an excuse for not preparing the patient or the nursing team, it’s even more reason to prepare! This lecture will cover the important body systems and treatments that must be treated and assessed prior to emergency anaesthesia to ensure a smooth procedure and successful patient recovery.
Claire Roberts
Dip AVN(Surg) PGCertVetAA CertVNECC RVN
Dip AVN(Surg) PGCertVetAA CertVNECC RVN
Synergy CPD
Claire has been veterinary nursing for over 20 years. In 2006 she gained the Diploma in Advanced Veterinary Nursing (Surgical) and in 2013 she gained the VN certificate in Emergency and Critical care and recently passed the post graduate certificate in veterinary anaesthesia and analgesia. Claire has spent many years working in the referral setting, this year she became the Professional Development Manager for Linnaeus where she focusses on the development of veterinary nursing in the primary care setting. Claire sits on the RCVS VN Council and runs her own CPD company called SynergyCPD.
What should you do when things start to go wrong under anaesthesia? This session will look at specific cases, allowing for interactivity and discussion throughout.
Catherine Oxtoby
BVSc PhD MRCVS
BVSc PhD MRCVS
VDS Training
Catherine qualified as a vet in 2000 and worked in GP for 13 years. She completed a PhD in 2017 investigating the causes and types of errors in veterinary practice and the effect of organisational culture. She now works for the VDS implementing human factors principles to help vets’ errors and improve patient outcomes.
Professional misconduct, negligence or just bad luck? This session will discuss what happens when things go wrong in clinical veterinary practice. What should we do and how do we go about reporting, auditing and learning from significant events?
Daniel Fletcher
PhD DVM DACVECC
PhD DVM DACVECC
Cornell University
Dr. Fletcher has been on the faculty of the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine since 2006. After receiving a BS in Electrical Engineering from Drexel University and a PhD in Bioengineering from the University of California Berkeley/San Francisco, he obtained his DVM from the University of California at Davis. He then completed a rotating internship and emergency and critical care residency at the University of Pennsylvania. He has received multiple teaching awards, and is co-chair of the RECOVER Initiative, which published the first evidence-based veterinary CPR guidelines. He is past-president of the American College of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care and is the Associate Chair for Teaching and Clinical Service of the Department of Clinical Sciences at Cornell. His research interests include disorders of fibrinolysis, epilepsy, and the use of immersive simulation in teaching. He has been building simulators for veterinary education since 2009 and is the primary developer of Open VetSim, an open source veterinary simulation platform. He opened the Tetlow and Roy Park Innovation Lab, an immersive simulation center at Cornell in the fall of 2015.
Achieving adequate blood flow and oxygenation are the most important goals of CPR. Learn how to optimize your CPR attempts with the best evidence-based practices for basic life support in dogs and cats.
Kieran Borgeat
BSc BVSc MVetMed CertVC MRCVS DipACVIM DipECVIM-CA(Cardiology)
BSc BVSc MVetMed CertVC MRCVS DipACVIM DipECVIM-CA(Cardiology)
Langford Vets
Kieran worked in primary care practice before undertaking his residency in cardiology. Back then, when he was a proper vet, Kieran enjoyed emergency work and undertook a 1:4 rota for out-of-hours work with some additional Vets Now locum shifts along the way. He remembers what cardiac emergencies were like before he became a cardiologist and is excited to share his practical experiences and top tips with the delegates at Vets Now’s Congress!
Kieran currently works as lead cardiologist at Langford Vets, University of Bristol, and is 85% clinical with an out-of-hours rota despite the academic backdrop. His interests are feline cardiomyopathy and congenital heart disease, but he manages the whole spectrum of cardiac cases from dogs with mitral valve disease to horses with atrial fibrillation. He is a previous member of the Veterinary Cardiovascular Society Executive Committee, past-Chair of the ACVIM Cardiology Research Committee, a current member of the ECVIM Cardiology Credentials Committee and Module-Lead for the CertAVP Cardiology C-modules at the Royal Veterinary College in London. He has spoken on five continents about various cardiology and interventional radiology topics and is supported at home by four kids and a very patient wife.
Have you ever struggled with a cat in severe congestive heart failure, or a dog with a life-threatening ventricular arrhythmia? Most of us have, and with enough experience we all develop a basic protocol for treating these cases. But what if things are not so straightforward? What if we identify comorbidities or witness adverse events after treatment? This interactive (bring devices!), case-based session will run through a number of challenging, real-life cases featuring cardiac emergencies, and as a team we can try to get to the heart of how best to manage these potential disasters in practice.
David Owen
BVMS CertAVP(ECC) MRCVS
BVMS CertAVP(ECC) MRCVS
Vets Now
David graduated with honours from the University of Glasgow in 2007 and started working in a small animal general practice in Scotland. Following this, he worked for six years at a small animal hospital in Manchester, where he gained an interest in emergency and critical care.
David gained the RCVS certificate in emergency and critical care in 2015 and is a registered RCVS Advanced Practitioner in this field.
David joined Vets Now in November 2106 to further his interests in all aspects of emergency and critical care.
Dystocia is a common presentation in emergency practice and often comes with a unique set of challenges for the clinician. In this presentation we will discuss how to manage both the clinical challenges, but also the non-clinical challenges including the management of finances when emotions are running high.
Chloé Hannigan (VetYogi)
BVetMed MRCVS RYT 500
BVetMed MRCVS RYT 500
VetYogi
Chloé graduated from the RVC in 2012, started in mixed practice, and now works and travels as a small animal locum. Yoga was initially a hobby, but she soon realised how beneficial a regular yoga and meditation practice is for coping with the physical, mental, and emotional, demands of a veterinary job. She qualified as a yoga teacher in 2017 and set up VetYogi with the aim of sharing yoga to the veterinary industry in evidence-based and realistic ways, to fit in with busy working lifestyles. She recently completed her RYT 500 advanced yoga teacher training in India.
Rise and shine with this short and strong Vinyasa flow sequence suitable for all levels.
How can we easily distinguish cardiac from non-cardiac causes of respiratory distress? What should the real-life priorities be in the ER for emergency heart failure? When should treatment go beyond furosemide and oxygen, and how do we decide when to provide this more intensive care? This session will focus on answering these questions, in addition to providing detail on how to escalate care for the patients with the very worst cases of congestive heart failure, and a beginners’ guide to making a diagnosis of underlying disorder based on signalment and basic echo findings.
Carolyne Crowe
BVetMed(Hons) BSc(Hons) MSc Dip Coaching Dip Stress Management and Wellbeing FRCVS
BVetMed(Hons) BSc(Hons) MSc Dip Coaching Dip Stress Management and Wellbeing FRCVS
VDS Training
Carolyne is an experienced equine vet, an award-winning personal performance coach, mentor, international speaker, researcher and lecturer.
Carolyne has a master’s degree in Workplace Health and Wellbeing and continues to research veterinary team health, wellbeing, performance and engagement. She is a master trainer in DISC behavioural profiling, a CPCAB trainer in Stress management and Wellbeing, a certified trainer in Resilience, a Mental Health First Aider and an Honorary Lecturer of the University of Liverpool. She also successfully ran a coaching and training business for several years,
Carolyne works as a training consultant with the VDS Training team; developing, training and coaching individuals, teams and practices to be the best they can be and to thrive both personally and professionally. Loving a challenge, in 2017, Carolyne ran 10 marathons in 10 days raising over £18,000 for the Brooke charity.
Intentional presence is key to maintaining performance under pressure, remain in control when everything around you is changing and to manage your time and your energy effectively. Developing the ability to press pause, reflect and proactively manage your emotions, actions and behaviours as you go through the day is an essential skill to be aware of, to gain and to hone. During this session, we will discuss the habits that high performers adopt and how you can be present and be confident with the decisions you make and the actions you take on a daily basis to get what you want and need from your work and your life.
‘Burnout’: what does it mean? Why are some professions more at risk? How can you identify it? This lecture will take you through the characteristics of the lived reality of burnout, looking at risks as individuals and teams, signs to look out for, and examining the impact that it can have in practice. We will outline empirically informed psychological approaches to tackling the risk of burnout, from what you can do as an individual, to exciting opportunities for organisational change. This lecture is for everyone who is interested in maintaining services from the perspective that workforce is your most valuable asset.
As much as none of us ever want to make mistakes, we do, and it’s ok, as long as we take responsibility for them, and learn from them so that ideally, we don’t make the same mistake again. One early time that I screwed up in my career was shortly after I had been to an awesome conference and learned all kinds of new and exciting things from the exceptional line up of specialists. Unfortunately, my approach to applying what I had learned missed the mark and resulted in an adverse outcome for a patient. In this session I’ll tell you that story, which might provide you with some food for thought as you go back into your practices after this conference.
A walk through that ‘what do I do now?’ moment when you know there is no help available. This will look at how I dealt with that moment and survived, along with the patient.
This lecture will focus on the principles of why we monitor critical patients, as well as the advantages and disadvantages of different monitoring techniques and machines, specifically for the ICU patient. We will also discuss what to do if you are working on a budget or if the “ideal gadget” is not available to you.
Kathryn Latimer-Jones
Dip AVN Dip HE CVN CertEd CertVNECC RVN
Dip AVN Dip HE CVN CertEd CertVNECC RVN
North West Veterinary Specialists
Kathryn qualified as a veterinary nurse over 20 years ago. She spent the early part of her career in small animal practice and then later as a lecturer in Veterinary Nursing. In 2007 she returned to clinical work, joining The University of Liverpool within the Small Animal Teaching Hospital. Kathryn’s passion is high dependency nursing whether they are surgical or medical patients.
She leads the team of in-patient care nurses at North West Veterinary Specialists in Cheshire, providing clinical and managerial leadership to the day-to-day operation of the nursing team. She is also a tutor for the Vets Now Cert VN ECC course.
‘Something isn’t right’. Serious adverse events, such as unexpected death and cardiac arrest, are often preceded by observable physiological and clinical abnormalities. This lecture will cover many aspects of how and why patients deteriorate and the best way to detect and assess them while also escalating care appropriately. By closely monitoring changes in observations and interpreting early signs of decline, nurses are more likely to identify, manage and therefore avoid serious adverse events before they occur. It is inevitable that we care for patients who deteriorate, nurses need to be a step ahead and recognise the subtle signs of deterioration.
Once blood flow and ventilation are addressed, adjunctive advanced life support (ALS) interventions like drug and defibrillation therapy can improve odds of survival even more. Review the RECOVER ALS algorithm to better understand the principles and timing of these interventions.
Racheal Marshall
RVN CertVNECC
RVN CertVNECC
Vets Now
Racheal qualified as a veterinary nurse in 2003 and worked in a busy mixed practice for the next three years, progressing to the senior nurse position. Following that, she spent 18 months working as a lecturer in Veterinary Nursing and Animal Management at Askham Bryan College before returning to clinical work, joining Vets Now in 2008.
In September 2014 she took up the role of Head of Clinical Nursing, where she is responsible for driving and ensuring consistent veterinary nursing standards across the company. Racheal achieved the Veterinary Nursing Certificate in Emergency and Critical Care in 2011 and is now a tutor on the course.
She is a member of the BVNA, VECCS, BAVECC and has spoken at BVNA Congress, local CPD meetings and college career events.
Ellie West
MA Cantab VetMB CertVA DipECVAA AIEMA MRCVS
MA Cantab VetMB CertVA DipECVAA AIEMA MRCVS
Davies Veterinary Specialists
Ellie graduated from Cambridge University in 2003 and has been a clinical veterinary anaesthetist since 2006. Ellie has worked at Davies Veterinary Specialists since 2013, which is part of the Linnaeus Group, and passed her ECVAA Diploma in 2017. Ellie’s interest is in environmental sustainability within veterinary medicine, becoming an Associate of the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment in 2019, and she is the Sustainability Lead at Davies.
Chair: Laura Playforth
BVM&S MSc Adv HCP(Open) MRCVS
BVM&S MSc Adv HCP(Open) MRCVS
Vets Now
Laura is Vets Now’s professional standards director and is responsible for driving clinical and professional excellence across the company. After graduating from the University of Edinburgh in 1999, she worked in small animal practices until 2007 before moving into emergency and critical care. Laura has attained an MSc in advancing healthcare practice. She is the current vice-chair of the RCVS Knowledge Quality Improvement Advisory Board and has interests in professional culture, patient safety and client communication.
As professionals, we are called on to make multiple decisions every day. Whilst many of these relate to the clinical care of our patients, some of the toughest dilemmas we face relate to challenges with communication, teamwork and those relating to our ethical framework. These can be magnified when we work in a high stakes emergency environment. During this session, a panel of experienced clinicians will share professional dilemmas they have encountered in their career. We will discuss how these are impacted by the professional codes that we all operate within. Your input is important too and we would love to hear your perspective on our dilemmas and any of your own.
Nora Romero-Fernandez
DVM DipACVIM SAIM MRCVS
DVM DipACVIM SAIM MRCVS
Vets Now
Nora graduated from the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona in 2012. After graduation, she undertook a small animal rotating internship in a referral hospital in Barcelona after which she worked as a small animal practitioner for three years. She moved to Glasgow in 2016 to undergo a small animal rotating internship at the University of Glasgow Small Animal Hospital. Subsequently, Nora joined Anderson Moores Veterinary Specialists to complete an ACVIM Residency in Small Animal Internal Medicine. She became a specialist in Small Animal Internal Medicine after gaining her diploma in 2019. Nora joined Vets Now’s 24/7 Emergency & Specialty Hospital in Glasgow in October 2019, where she is currently a member of the Internal Medicine team. Nora has published veterinary articles and reviews, some of which have been translated to other languages including Spanish and German. She has also demonstrated endoscopic techniques in BSAVA National Congress, UK. She enjoys all aspects of Internal Medicine but has a particular interest in gastroenterology, hepatology and endocrinology.
Following on from Claire Sharp’s pre-recorded lecture, “Diagnosing the IMHA patient”, this session will discuss the principles of immune-suppression and advice on adjunctive therapies and the evidence for their use, as well as side effects of immune-modulating drugs. This lecture will offer tips on how to decide when the drugs aren’t working and what to escalate to, as well as what testing can be performed to guide decision-making.
This session will be structured in a pro:con fashion and focus on the use of fibrinolytic drugs in cats, and to a lesser extent dogs, with arterial thromboembolism. Arterial thromboembolism is associated with a high morbidity and mortality, and a high level of emotional stress for both owners and vets. Is there only one way out, or should we try to treat these cats? What is the consensus on clot-busting drugs? How can we manage any complications along the way? This head-to-head discussion and audience Q&A will address these issues and more, delving into the ethics and practicalities of treating cats with ATE.
Helen Rooney
BSc(Hons) CVN CertEd DipAVN(Medical) CertVNECC RVN
BSc(Hons) CVN CertEd DipAVN(Medical) CertVNECC RVN
Vets Now and Pet Blood Bank UK
After qualifying as a veterinary nurse in 1996, Helen initially joined a mixed practice before moving into referral work where she has then spent most of her nursing career. Starting at Rutland House Referrals as a ward nurse and then a soft tissue surgery nurse, Helen later became the Senior Ward Manager allowing her to focus entirely on hospitalised patient care. This soon turned into a passion for emergency and critical care nursing and in-particular transfusion medicine. Helen gained her Dip AVN (Medical) in 2000 and joined the lecturing team at Myerscough College where she completed her Certificate in Education and BSc (Hons) Clinical Veterinary Nursing and later Certificate of Veterinary Nursing in Emergency and Critical Care whilst enjoying lecturing on her favourite topics and working as a locum outside of term time. After advancing to a Senior Veterinary Nursing Lecturer Helen moved back to clinical work as Head Nurse at the new Manchester Referral Hospital. Helen now works in a Clinical Support role for the Vets Now Hospitals and for Pet Blood Bank UK as their Training and Induction Manager.
When an emergency patient presents, the most common intervention is the administration of intravenous fluids. This lecture will cover the approach to fluid therapy in the Emergency Room, covering the how, why and when of fluid therapy for anyone new to emergency medicine.
Respiratory distress is life-threatening; characterised by severe dyspnoea and hypoxaemia. It is a common presentation in veterinary medicine and often challenging. Prompt, successful emergency management is paramount with rapid assessment and stabilisation being key.
This lecture is all about saving the severely distressed respiratory patient – from the time of initial presentation, to the time the patient is stabilised. Topics will cover subjects such as the importance of the prompt recognition of dyspnoea, its clinical presentations, initial stabilisation of the patient, oxygen therapy and thoracocentesis as well as the importance of minimising patient stress in these very often, fragile, decompensated patients.
Emma Donnelly
BSc (Hons) BVMS DECVECC MRCVS
BSc (Hons) BVMS DECVECC MRCVS
Vets Now
After graduating from the University of Glasgow in 2013, Emma joined Vets Now as a rotating intern. Emma’s interest In emergency and critical care developed during her time at university. After graduating, she undertook an emergency internship at the Vets Now 24/7 pet emergency &specialty hospital, Glasgow, before starting her residency.
Recently passing her exams, Emma is now a European diplomate in emergency and critical care. Emma enjoys all aspects of ECC but is particularly interested in neonatal care. When she is not at work, she enjoys martial arts and walks with her bouncy boxer dog, Boston.
What to do when placing a trach tube – top tips and tricks! This session will look at how to identify and stabilise, how to sedate/anaesthetise safely (where applicable) and, importantly, how to keep calm! It will also offer technical tips and discuss what to do afterwards.
The triple crises of global heating, biodiversity loss and resource scarcity are an obvious threat; but what effect are they having on healthcare providers, how much is the veterinary sector contributing to their cause, and is there anything we can realistically do? In this session we will show that through transformative change, we can realise the opportunities from including the environmental sustainability into working veterinary practices, and also mitigate and adapt to the effects of the current ecological crises. We will look at pragmatic steps we can take, and how sustainability will benefit your business using the experiences gained at a private UK referral hospital in gaining their Investors in the Environment accreditation.
Despite working in the same building, sometimes It can seem like your co-workers are working on different planets. Communication and lack of respect between the groups can cause culture problems in the hospital and lead to poor client service and patient care. This talk will discuss some ideas for creating culture change and improving communication between all teams. Taught by a reformed passive aggressive communicator, this lecture will use case studies to illustrate the benefits of saying what you mean the first time, and how to get your point across while still maintaining your compassion and sanity.
The process of coagulation - how things appear in clinical veterinary cases and how we might diagnose and assess coagulopathies in the clinic.
This is the rhythm of the night… about 2am to be exact, and the rhythm doesn’t look very friendly. Is the rhythm going to get your patient or will you step in to stabilise their heart? Don’t be a slave to the rhythm – learn to master emergency-room ECGs and make on-the-spot decisions about whether to treat, and which antiarrhythmic drug choices to make. Learn to turn the beat around and beat it before it beats you.
David Stokes
BSc(Hons) C&GCertVNES RVN
BSc(Hons) C&GCertVNES RVN
Vets Now
David started in the Veterinary world as a 16 year old gaining work experience before heading off to University and graduating with BSc (Hons) in Zoology with Marine Zoology in 2005. He returned to his local practice in Staffordshire after University and began work in their nursing team before qualifying as an RVN at the start of 2011. David moved to Swindon in 2011 where he worked as an RVN at a local first-opinion practice. He joined the avian and exotics team at our Swindon Hospital in November 2014 and two years later passed his City and Guilds Certificate in Exotic Veterinary Nursing with distinction. David enjoys all aspects of nursing and has always had an interest in exotic species, in particular reptiles and amphibians.
Chair: Laura Kidd
FHEA PGCert TQFE BVMS MRCVS
FHEA PGCert TQFE BVMS MRCVS
Vets Now
Laura graduated from the University of Glasgow in 1988 and worked for five years in small animal general practice. In 1993 she moved into teaching veterinary nursing (VN) – splitting her time between practising and lecturing at Edinburgh College and, since 2016, at SRUC. In 2011 she became a tutor on the Vets Now Certificate of Veterinary Nursing Emergency and Critical Care (CertVNECC). In 2014 she became Clinical Development Adviser for the CertVNECC with responsibility for review and development of the clinical content of the qualification. Laura also teaches clinical skills to vet students and is an OSCE examiner. She has a keen interest in veterinary and VN education gaining the Postgraduate Certificate Teaching Qualification Further Education (PGCert TQFE) from the University of Dundee in 2015. In 2016, Laura obtained The Edinburgh Teaching Award (EdTA) through the University of Edinburgh becoming a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).
As professionals, we encounter many dilemmas, some of the most challenging are linked to communication, teamwork and those relating to our ethical framework. During this interactive session, the panel will share some of the dilemmas they have faced during their career and discuss how these are impacted by the professional code we work within. Please come along and share your thoughts on our dilemmas and any of your own.
If you’re not familiar with Yin yoga, it is a beautifully relaxing style of yoga where we hold postures for several minutes at a time. It’s really good for calming the mind, releasing tension, and improving flexibility, and it’s a perfect style for night-time.
This Hatha alignment-focussed class will connect body, mind and breath, to explore ways to correct posture, release tension and appreciate what your body can do. Suitable for all levels.
This lecture will cover common and not so common endocrine emergencies such as DKA HHS and hypoadrenocorticism. Pathophysiology, diagnosis, comorbidities/complications and treatment will be discussed, as well as some useful and practical tips.
Simon Hagley
BVSc DACVECC MRCVS
BVSc DACVECC MRCVS
Vets Now
Simon joined Vets Now in April 2020 as an ECC diplomate in our 24/7 Emergency & Specialty hospital in Manchester.
After obtaining his degree from the University of Bristol, Simon completed a speciality internship in Australia in 2013, before moving back to the UK and beginning work as an emergency staff clinician at PetMedics in Manchester. Simon was then offered a 4-year ECC training and teaching position between 2015 and 2019 in the world-renowned Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital at the University of California, where he achieved specialist status.
Before joining Vets Now, Simon worked to develop the emergency and intensive care services at ChesterGates Veterinary surgery. He also contributed chapters for core veterinary critical care textbooks and has been involved in several publications. Simon is committed to enhancing the level of veterinary training in the UK, to improve patient care and promote staff well-being. His interests include fluid therapy, sepsis, electrolyte and glucose derangements and shock.
There has been a relatively recent move in human trauma patient care away from using clear fluids in trauma patient resuscitation, and towards the early, aggressive use of blood products. But is this the right thing to do in veterinary patients? Should we just follow their lead? Or do we need a different approach for cats and dogs experiencing trauma? This session will debate the pros and cons of clear fluids in trauma.
Stabbing a needle towards the heart is associated with a certain level of stress, especially if you’re relatively inexperienced in pericardiocentesis. Here, our speaker will take you on their journey towards a successful method of pericardiocentesis, including a frank review of the cases that did not go well and what was learned along the way. By sharing some drainage tips and tricks, we hope that your learning curve is significantly less steep than it might be.
Building on our earlier talk (‘keeping your team going when the going gets tough’) that explored team resilience in dealing with challenging times in-the-moment, this talk focuses on a longer view. How can we create a resilient team? What can threaten our team’s resilience? How can we identify, rebuild and support a team that is struggling to bounce back from a difficult experience, or a series of demanding situations? This talk will outline the latest models of team resilience and explore empirically supported strategies to help foster a resilient team approach in order to better weather the storms of clinical practice.
Christine Magrath
BVMS HonFRCVS
BVMS HonFRCVS
Christine was appointed by the VDS in 1999 to initiate and develop a programme which specifically deals with every day clinical communication with clients and address challenging situations.
The programme has had an impact at practice level and on undergraduate training and in light of this Christine was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal College in 2009 and presented with the Chiron award from the BVA in 2010. Christine is recognised as a leader in this field and has co-authored books on the subject. She is a past President and Treasurer of SPVS and was a partner for 12 of her 17 years in practice.
What do we tell owners when things haven’t gone to plan? This session will focus on the importance of clear communication, especially during difficult or stressful circumstances. Knowing what to say and when can be crucial in preventing complaints.
An understanding of the basic mechanisms of clot formation and breakdown is the critical foundation for any clinician treating bleeding disorders. A brief review of the steps of clot formation and fibrinolysis will be used to frame best practices for diagnosis and treatment of bleeding patients.
How do you get it all done? Multiple emergencies arriving at the same time, multiple treatments ordered at the same time, multiple patients requiring monitoring, and you need to eat a snack and maybe even drink some water. Before you panic, this lecture will offer practical knowledge on critical thinking skills and prioritizing medical needs that will help veterinary nurses organize their day, provide the best care for their patients, and maintain their sanity through a busy shift.
Are you sure it’s not you? The emergency room can be packed with stressors that degrade our communication with each other leading to increased stress, increasing mistakes, and can even affect our ability to provide excellent patient care. Come to this talk and learn some communication strategies to recognize the problems and how to work through the different personalities on your team to improve communication and teamwork.
Dyspnoea and collapse are very common presenting complaints in emergency practice and every case brings challenges, both diagnostically and therapeutically. In this forum, a panel of experienced clinicians will discuss cardiac and respiratory emergency cases that they have grappled with. The session will be interactive, and we’ll discuss with the audience some of the dilemmas that face us as we deal with major body system disorders in fragile emergency & critically ill patients. Your input on what we did well and what we could have done differently is very welcome.
This session will be a case-based approach to apply the new ACVIM Consensus Statement on the Diagnosis of IMHA. It will include a view of the diagnostic algorithm from the Consensus Statement, a revised understanding of pathomechanisms, and infectious disease considerations.
A creatinine of 700! Do we euthanise or give a bucket-load of fluids?! This lecture will discuss some of the differentials of AKI, as well as providing a (modern) set of guidelines of how to treat, monitor and prognosticate these patients. Cases that may require urgent referral for IR/bypass procedures will be considered and discussed.
William Peel
BVSc(Hons) MRCVS
BVSc(Hons) MRCVS
TVM UK
Will graduated from the University of Liverpool in 2009. Following this he worked in small animal referral and general practice, with most of his time spent at the Royal Veterinary College, firstly as an intern specialising in Emergency and Critical Care then moving on to work in their first opinion hospital teaching undergraduates. In 2018 he joined TVM UK, first as a veterinary technical advisor before becoming UK product manager.
This presentation will discuss the emergency neurological patient, especially with respect to intoxicants affecting the nervous system.
As neurotoxins often cause rapid onset of severe neurological symptoms it is important to have a handle on how to deal with these patients if they arrive at your practice. We will cover initial triage and treatment of seizuring patients followed by decontamination techniques and other supportive care measures, including how to manage the hyperthermia that often accompanies prolonged seizures. We will also discuss specific common neurotoxins along with where to find practice resources to help you when dealing with poisoned patients.
Marge Chandler
DVM MS MANZCVS DACVN DACVIM MRCVS
DVM MS MANZCVS DACVN DACVIM MRCVS
Vets Now
Dr Marge Chandler is an independent consultant in small animal nutrition and internal medicine, Clinical Nutritionist for Vets Now, Glasgow, and Internal Medicine Specialist for Moorview Referrals in Newcastle. She has a BS from California State University, and a MS (Animal Nutrition) and DVM from Colorado State University (CSU). After several years in mixed practice, she did residencies in small animal medicine and clinical nutrition at CSU and Massey University, NZ. She is a diplomate of ACVIM and ACVN, member of the ANZCVS (SAM), Chair of the FEDIAF Scientific Advisory Committee, founding member of the European Veterinary Nutrition Educators Group, and Co-Chair of the WSAVA Global Nutrition Committee.
Many hospitalized cats and dogs suffer from poor appetite, low body condition scores, sarcopenia, and weight loss. Malnutrition compromises the immune system, slows healing, prolongs the hospital stay time, and increases the rates of morbidity and mortality. One of the main goals of nutritional support is to prevent or slow the use of protein for gluconeogenesis, along with maintaining the patient’s weight and supporting the immune function. The choice of diet, the feeding and monitoring protocols, and the feeding method are the vital aspects of nutritional support for hospitalized patients.
Marge Chandler
DVM MS MANZCVS DACVN DACVIM MRCVS
DVM MS MANZCVS DACVN DACVIM MRCVS
Vets Now
Dr Marge Chandler is an independent consultant in small animal nutrition and internal medicine, Clinical Nutritionist for Vets Now, Glasgow, and Internal Medicine Specialist for Moorview Referrals in Newcastle. She has a BS from California State University, and a MS (Animal Nutrition) and DVM from Colorado State University (CSU). After several years in mixed practice, she did residencies in small animal medicine and clinical nutrition at CSU and Massey University, NZ. She is a diplomate of ACVIM and ACVN, member of the ANZCVS (SAM), Chair of the FEDIAF Scientific Advisory Committee, founding member of the European Veterinary Nutrition Educators Group, and Co-Chair of the WSAVA Global Nutrition Committee.
The gastrointestinal tract is impacted directly by diet more than any other body part. It is affected by the diet macronutrient and micronutrient, the frequency and timing of meals, and the dietary effect on the microbiome. The diet can have a negative or positive effect. It may contain toxins, allergens, nutritional excesses or deficiencies, and has a direct effect on GI physiology, affecting motility, cell renewal rate, enzyme production, immune functions, ammonia production, and volatile fatty acid content. Nutrition plays a key role in the management of many GI diseases and some cases may be managed solely by dietary therapy.
During the spring of 2020, the world changed and throughout our professions, vets and nurses found ourselves working in ways we never expected. Balancing our duty to support animal health and welfare with wider public health priorities in the face of a disease that science is only just beginning to understand was never going to be easy. In this session we will explore how the pandemic impacted our professions and reflect on what we have learnt to date.
Many different species of exotic, or non-traditional companion, animals are currently kept in the UK and so may be presented to veterinary practice. In the authors' opinion, veterinary professionals often are not confident when presented with an exotic patient. These lectures aim to give an overview of the common reasons exotic species may be presented to veterinary practice. Species discussed will include the more common small mammals, birds and reptiles. Individual nursing considerations for the species will be touched on as well as triage, hospitalisation, initial stabilisation and some common presentations for each species/group.
This lecture follows on from "What to do when it’s not a dog or a cat: nursing exotic emergencies" and aims to go into a little more detail with regards to some of the general nursing skills discussed in the first lecture. Topics discussed will include handling, supportive care, nutrition, fluid therapy, blood sampling and routes of administration of medication. As with the previous lecture the species covered will include the more common small mammals, birds and reptiles.
Administering blood products is an increasingly commonplace procedure in ECC practice, however, if transfusions are unfamiliar, they can be a daunting prospect. This lecture will cover brief indications for the different blood products and where to get them, recipient pre-compatibility testing and how to safely prepare and administer the blood products.
Neus Elias
LMV PgCert CertAVP(ECC) DECVECC MRCVS
LMV PgCert CertAVP(ECC) DECVECC MRCVS
Vets Now
Neus graduated from the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona in 2009. She then completed a rotating internship within the university before going on to spend another year working within a referral hospital. After moving to the UK, Neus spent two years in a first opinion practice in Liverpool. Neus developed an interest in emergency and critical care and in 2017 started an ECC internship at the Vets Now 24/7 pet emergency & specialty hospital, Glasgow.
In January 2017, Neus began her residency in emergency and critical care with the ECC team in Glasgow. Neus completed her residency in January 2020. Recently passing her exams, Neus is now a European diplomate in emergency and critical care. When not working, Neus loves travelling, cooking, and keeping fit. She has a cat called Piruleta who moved with her from Barcelona. Piruleta keeps Neus entertained as she likes to play fetch!
Approximately 25% of severely injured human patients are presented with a clinically significant coagulopathy that develops minutes after the initial traumatic insult. This coagulopathy, termed the acute coagulopathy of trauma and shock (ACoTS), is associated with a fourfold increase in mortality. This advanced session will focus on this clinical condition, giving you all you need to know in a high-speed, no fluff, high impact session, and will cover:
After successful CPR, 80% of veterinary patients are lost in the post-cardiac arrest (PCA) period. Learn a systematic approach to managing patients in the PCA period to maximize survival rates.
Following on from my general trauma resuscitation lecture, this session will incorporate how to use viscoelastic tests (TEG/ROTEM/VCM) to guide blood product administration in trauma patients. Specialised blood products such as fresh and stored whole blood, refrigerated plasma, and cryoprecipitate will also be discussed.
An outline and description of damage control surgery with case examples. This lecture will explain how and when this might be something we should develop further in veterinary medicine.
“For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.” How do we get better at the things we need to do? Is it just by reading papers, attending lectures and repetition, or are there more effective ways? In this lecture, we will discuss some of the different methods for development of expertise that cognitive psychologists have identified over the last 10-15 years and explore how we might apply them to veterinary emergency & critical care in order to further our own ability and improve our patients’ outcomes.
This session will explore the meaning and styles of yoga and meditation, present some of the evidence-based benefits of a regular practice, and give you ideas on how to realistically fit them into your busy working lives. It finishes with a veterinary-themed guided meditation to help you relax and re-charge!
Financial concerns are be a big factor in our day-to-day stress levels. What simple and straightforward steps can we take to get a handle on our money whilst still sticking to our life goals? During this session we will discuss where you are currently with your financial goals and identify a plan to move forward, with the aim to help you feel more in control and what to do next to plan for your future.
Amanda Boag
MAVetMB DipECVECC DipACVECC DipACVIM FHEA MRCVS
MAVetMB DipECVECC DipACVECC DipACVIM FHEA MRCVS
Group Referrals Director IVC
Amanda graduated from Cambridge University in 1998. She undertook further clinical training at the Royal Veterinary College (RVC) and the University of Pennsylvania and is Board Certified in both Internal Medicine and Emergency and Critical Care. She was a Lecturer in ECC at the RVC from 2003-2008. In September 2008, she took up the post of Clinical Director at Vets Now where she led the development of the clinical and professional standards team which works across 60 veterinary emergency clinics and three 24-hour hospitals. She was President of the European Society of Veterinary ECC from 2011-2014 and Founding President of the European College of Veterinary ECC from 2014-2018. She was an elected RCVS Council member 2012-2020 and RCVS President 2018-2019. In Jan 2020, she took up the role of Group Referral Director for IVCEvidensia where she has oversight of the referral strategy across the 11 IVCE countries as well as working with the IVCE Academy team.
You’ve seen a thousand of these cases before, with successes and failures, but now you feel like you’ve got the approach down to a fine art. The only trouble is, the evidence is equivocal (who would have guessed) and your colleague disagrees with you: vehemently! How do you approach a difference of clinical opinion and sort out tensions between personnel without making it personal, for the best benefit of your patient and the remainder of your team? Amanda Boag will walk you through how she has learnt how to resolve clinical conflicts without violence!
This 30-minute lecture will discuss the daunting experience of public speaking. It will draw from personal experiences and share wise words collected over the years from esteemed colleagues with decades of lecturing experience. We will review suggestions on presentation design and format, how to prepare what you’re going to say, ways to calm nerves, and how to best engage your audience and deliver a great presentation.
Alan Nobbs
NHS Leadership Academy
Alan joined the NHS via a clinical route, commencing his registered general nurse training in 1984, and is currently the Head of Programme Design and Practice at the NHS Leadership Academy – having first joined the team in April 2013 as a Senior Programme Lead for Programme Delivery and Frameworks.
Following working in a variety of acute healthcare clinical practice roles, spanning sixteen years, Alan moved into an acute trust strategic management role with organisational responsibility for the delivery of the National Service Framework for Coronary Heart Disease in 2000. Although part of a wider career development plan to progress to executive nursing director-level roles, the move prompted a change in career direction as he had the opportunity, during this period, to work closely with the Modernisation Agency where he developed a keen interest in the fields of innovation, improvement and leadership for change.
His subsequent positions include working at both a regional and national level in several senior service innovation and improvement leadership roles – leading the establishment of a Managed Cardiovascular Clinical Network across North East Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire before moving to the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement in 2011 where he worked as an Associate within the Thought Leadership Team, exploring social movement thinking and community organising principles and their potential role within the NHS context.
Leading a team of strong, intelligent, dedicated individuals can be difficult. This session aims to give leaders (whether managerial or clinical) greater insight into how to align goals, identify and understand problems and conflict, and ultimately create stronger teams. Understanding yours and your team members’ idiosyncrasies are key to making this breakthrough and this session will get you there.
Title | Price |
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Veterinary Surgeon | £175.00 |
Veterinary Nurse | £150.00 |
Veterinary Receptionist | £60.00 |
Intern | £85.00 |
Vet Student | £80.00 |
Student Nurse/ACA | £60.00 |
VAT will be added at 20% where applicable
Woodley Equipment Company is a market leader in UK veterinary laboratory diagnostics with an evolving portfolio of veterinary equipment. Their UK Veterinary division supplies laboratory diagnostic products solely for veterinary practices and laboratories throughout the UK.
Woodley Equipment seeks to provide the latest laboratory diagnostics enabling Veterinary Practices to respond to the health needs of their customers better, whilst operating a more efficient and profitable business.
www.woodleyequipment.com
Veterinary Business Development Ltd are the publishers of the weekly Veterinary Times, monthly titles VN Times & the Veterinary Business Journal & association lead Congress Times.
We also offer up to date news at www.vettimes.co.uk & for the latest vacancies visit
www.jobs.vettimes.co.uk
VETgirl, the #1 online veterinary continuing professional development (CPD) resource in the U.S., provides 100+ hours of NEW continuing education (CE) a year for less than £200. Learn from webinars, podcasts, videos, and more with our cutting-edge multimedia content management system. VETgirl is proud to support the ECC UK Virtual Congress. Get 15% off your VETgirl membership [ vetgirlontherun.com ] with coupon code: VGUK15
Facebook: vetgirlontherun
Instagram: vetgirlontherun
LinkedIn: vetgirl
Boehringer Ingelheim is the second largest animal health business in the world, with net sales of almost 4 billion euros in 2018 and presence in more than 150 markets.
Across the globe, our 10,000 employees create the future of animal wellbeing through their daily work. We believe in prevention over treatment and therefore, we focus on developing innovative solutions in the field of vaccines, parasiticides and therapeutics. With a large portfolio of advanced, preventive healthcare products, tools and services, we support our customers in taking care of the health of their animals.
For more information visit: www.boehringer-ingelheim.com/animal-health/overview
Discover your passion for ECC. If you have an interest in emergency & critical care, then the Cert VN ECC could be your unique opportunity to build on your existing skills and knowledge to achieve a Level 4, industry recognized, City & Guilds qualification in small animal emergency and critical care nursing. Affordable and flexible, with tutor supported online content; the Cert VN ECC offers accessible inclusive learning wherever you are. Annual intakes in April & October
Apply now at www.vets-now.com/certvnecc
DMS by working in partnership with MILA, BBraun and other manufacturers, offer a comprehensive range of products for Critical Care - Catheters, IV administration – Infusion Devices, Surgical – Drapes, Gowns and Bespoke Custom Procedure Packs ,and Woundcare – Advance Dressings .
www.dmsveterinary.com
EICKEMEYER is an independent, family-owned veterinary equipment company providing a full range of quality veterinary instrumentation and equipment for all your clinical needs. For more than 50 years EICKEMEYER have become experts not just in the science of veterinary medicine, but also in how to build and grow a successful practice.
www.eickemeyer.co.uk
Essity is a leading Global hygiene and health company, dedicated to improving well-being through its products and solutions. Essity, best known in the veterinary market for key brands such as Soffban® and Tensoplast®, is excited to introduce the Advanced Wound Care range through our Cutimed® and Leukomed® product portfolios.
https://www.bsnmedical.co.uk/literature/veterinary-digital-literature.html
Elanco Animal Health (NYSE: ELAN) is a global leader in animal health dedicated to innovating and delivering products and services to prevent and treat disease in farm animals and pets, creating value for farmers, pet owners, veterinarians, stakeholders, and society as a whole. With nearly 70 years of animal health heritage, we are committed to helping our customers improve the health of animals in their care, while also making a meaningful impact on our local and global communities. Learn more at www.elanco.com
The European Veterinary and Emergency Care Society (EVECCS) is a non-profit organisation with the mission of promoting ECC in Europe and to support the advancement of knowledge and high standards of practice in veterinary ECC.
EVECCS organises a yearly congress in June and engages its members with newsletters, multimedia messages and discussion on the hottest topics in ECC. A yearly travel grant is available for its members (nurses and veterinarian).
The society is open and welcome to everyone that is passionate about ECC, working in Europe and all around the world.
Join us at our next congress that will be held in Porto (Portugal), June 3-5 June 2021.
IDEXX SmartFlow, patient workflow software, helps your practice digitalise your clinical procedures and in-patient care. Part of IDEXX since 2018, SmartFlow works with you at every step of the patient visit by supporting seamless internal communication, automating charge capture and streamlining patient documentation. For more information visit animana.com/smartflow
Infusion Concepts is an innovative company designing and supplying a wide range of veterinary infusion, drainage and critical care products. Our specialities include bespoke product design for veterinary centres, pump-specific infusion lines, chest drains and feeding tubes and we would welcome the chance to discuss your needs.
www.infusionconcepts.com
A young independent veterinary pharmaceutical company, Invicta strives to develop novel and innovative products.
http://www.invictavet.com
Ethicon & DePuy Synthes are part of the Johnson & Johnson Medical Device Family, building upon the strong legacies of two great companies, we have become one of the largest, most innovative and comprehensive human & veterinary business in the world. Our vision is to increase access to surgical innovation and solutions within the veterinary community.
www.jnj.com
Established in 1995, J.A.K Marketing continues to provide the veterinary industry with quality consumables and equipment from global leading manufacturers such as HEINE, Intersurgical, Medical Pet Shirts, and many more. Given the customer service J.A.K Marketing strive to achieve, we will do our upmost to offer impartial advice to fulfil all your purchasing requirements.
www.jakmarketing.co.uk
KONG Veterinary Products (KVP) has been manufacturing high quality veterinary products since 1964. Exclusive supplier of the KONG toys to the veterinary sector, we also offer a range of Rehabilitation products including the entire line of Balto braces for animals and the widest range of Elizabethan collars available from Mice to Mastiffs! In addition to our products, KVP is now the exclusive supplier of the ArmOR Hand Protective Gloves and the No Flap™ Ear Wraps.
www.kvpvet.com
Macahl animal health is the company behind Oralade® the UK's No1 veterinary Oral rehydration support for dogs and cats.
A family business based in Northern Ireland Macahl have been manufacturing and developing unique nutrition and rehydration products for veterinary use since 2006. Today Oralade is distributed in over 50 countries worldwide.
MSD Animal Health is the leading animal health company in the United Kingdom. We offer one of the industry’s most innovative portfolios to prevent, treat and control diseases across all major farm and companion animal species. Our mission – The Science of Healthier Animals® – guides all of our work. Healthier animals mean a sustainable food supply, protection for humans against diseases passed from animals, and longer, healthier lives for pets.
www.msd-animal-health.co.uk
Nova Biomedical develops, manufactures, and sells advanced technology blood-testing analysers based on electrochemical and optical measuring techniques. Our new Stat Profile Prime Plus VET is a comprehensive, whole blood critical care analyser that combines blood gases, electrolytes, metabolites, CO-Oximetry, and 32 calculated results in a simple, compact device.
www.novabio.us
Petplan® is proud to have been working with the veterinary industry for over 40 years, offering unrivalled support and training for veterinary staff. Petplan® is the UK’s No.1 pet insurance provider, paying out 97% of claims they receive - helping to reduce those awkward conversations with clients during stressful and sensitive times. Having insured clients with comprehensive cover allows you to focus on providing the best veterinary care, while we focus on covering the costs.
Visit petplanvet.co.uk for more information.
Pet Blood Bank UK is the only charity of its kind that supports the veterinary profession with 24/7 access to blood and ancillary products. Our aim is to advance animal health and welfare and to relieve suffering by providing quick and convenient access to blood.
PRINTISE®
Drawing on over 30 years’ design and print experience, Printise offers a one-stop solution for all of your print needs. Order everything from business cards, brochures and banner stands to mugs, pens, folders and flags at printise.co.uk
With considerable design and print experience in the veterinary sector, working closely with Vets Now since 2013, Printise director Tim Gilpin identifies four key fundamentals: “Quality, cost, speed and, above all, service. All customers must feel valued at all times. As a so-called “soft” factor, service is all too often overlooked, but it costs nothing and offers a profound competitive edge.”
The company’s print services are supported by in-house design and copywriting capabilities, making Printise a cost-effective full service solution for business.
printise.co.uk
As comprehensive suppliers to veterinary practices and hospitals, Pioneer Veterinary Products work with you to improve patient care, maximise time and make daily practice easier.
We realise this through promoting best practice, advancing education and providing high quality affordable products with bespoke support.
pioneervet.co.uk
Protexin Veterinary is dedicated to producing innovative, research-based products of the highest quality, providing a complete range of products for the veterinary market. Leading products in the range include Pro-Kolin+, Denamarin, Pro-Fibre, Dasuquin, Cobalaplex and Pro-Kolin Advanced for dogs and cats.
www.protexinvet.com
The RCVS regulates veterinary surgeons and veterinary nurses in the UK, by setting, upholding and advancing veterinary standards.
www.rcvs.org.uk
Test&Treat is a family run Biotech company in Newmarket, Suffolk.
The company is focused on the development and production of simple, easy-to-use point of care (PoC) applications to provide technologies designed to produce rapid results as an aid to diagnosis and management.
Test&Treat currently has two point of care (Doctor’s Office) tests for use as an aid to the diagnosis and management (antibiotic susceptibility) of bacterial Urinary Tract Infection (UTI). All patented.
The Test&Treat technology is the first (worldwide) to allow confident prescribing of a suitable antibiotic at the PoC (veterinary and human) in less than 60 minutes.
www.testandtreat.co.uk
TVM UK are an animal health company that specialises in 3 main product areas – toxicology, ophthalmology and neurology. TVM UK’s toxicology product portfolio is accompanied by a range of resources, along with their expertise in toxicology, to help veterinary staff deal with poisoned cases in practice effectively and efficiently. They also campaign to increase client awareness of toxin dangers therefore promoting appropriate and timely presentation of poisoned pets.
www.tvm-uk.com
@tvm_uk
VBS Direct is the leader in therapeutic (K-Laser) and surgical lasers, and regenerative medicine (VPET); clinically proven accelerated healing of wounds and musculoskeletal tissues, post-surgical rehabilitation and pain management. We sell a full range of palatable, premium vet supplements, and veterinary specific, portable anaesthetic and Life Monitors (Digicare) and Cryotherapy.
vbsdirect.co.uk
SYNLAB’s Veterinary Pathology Group (VPG) is a network of responsive labs and expert pathologists across the UK and Ireland comprising VPG|Exeter, VPG|Ringwood, VPG|Hitchin, VPG|Leeds, VPG|Cork and VPG|histology (Bristol). The laboratories offer the full range of clinical diagnostic services to first opinion and referral veterinary practices. We are the group of choice for nearly all the veterinary referral centres in the UK and Ireland.
vet.synlab.co.uk
Associates and affiliates into one organization doctors of veterinary medicine, veterinary technicians, veterinary students, veterinary practice managers, and other individuals engaged in the practice of, or who have special interest in, the field of veterinary emergency and critical care practice. The Society promotes the advancement of knowledge in veterinary emergency and critical care medicine through annual symposia (IVECCS), on-line CE programs and publication of a peer reviewed journal (JVECC) leading to improved patient care of severely ill/injured animals. The VECCS has a membership of over 5000 veterinarians, students, technicians, managers and industry personnel. The annual Symposium, IVECCS, draws over 2500 veterinarians and technicians from around the world.
www.veccs.org
Vets Now was established in 2001 and is the leading provider of emergency veterinary care for companion animals in the UK. With over 60 out-of-hours clinics nationwide and two 24/7 pet emergency hospitals in Glasgow and Manchester, Vets Now is committed to delivering a responsive emergency and critical care service for cats, dogs and other small animals. Vets Now also partners with more than 1,500 veterinary practices across the UK to provide their clients with a seamless out-of-hours emergency care service. Vets Now employs over 1200 staff. Vets Now remains at the forefront of emergency veterinary care through its commitment to clinical excellence and training, employing many of the country’s top emergency & critical care specialists.
www.vets-now.com