Pain Management in Small Animal Practice

Join us for this 3-week highly immersive course, and enhance your knowledge of pain perception, how different analgesics work, how to accurately monitor patients on analgesic therapy.

COURSE FEE

AUD 289

Training 5 or more people?

Enroll 5 or more members of your practice and avail a special discount on the course fee!

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Course Blurb:

Our knowledge and understanding of pain, and its adverse effects on patient health has expanded rapidly over many years. As veterinary nurses, having an understanding of pain perception, knowledge of how to recognise pain, and how to manage pain is crucial to our patients’ welfare and wellbeing. Join us for this highly immersive course, and enhance your knowledge of pain perception, how different analgesics work, how to accurately monitor patients on analgesic therapy. What’s more, you will also learn analgesic techniques for various diseases and procedures, including analgesia for the emergency and critically ill patient, orthopaedic patients and more. Full of cheat sheets, helpful infographics and monitoring charts, this course is not to be missed!

Course Outline:

The first week of the pain management course will look at how the sensation of pain arises, what pain does to our patient, and how our patients respond to pain. In addition, we will learn how to recognize pain, and how to more accurately assess and monitor pain using various pain scoring systems.

In the second week of the course, we will look at how the different analgesics work, and how we can use them to optimum benefit for our patients. We’ll also look at how to monitor the use and effectiveness of our analgesics, our legal obligations, and, importantly, how to manage toxicity due to analgesics! It’s an exciting week – as we’ll also cover a range of anaesthetic techniques, including intravenous analgesic infusions, epidurals, local anesthesia blocks, and management of chronic pain as well!

The final week of the pain management course covers analgesic techniques in specific diseases in both dogs and cats, including pregnancy, cesarean section, analgesia for geriatric and paediatric patients, chronic pain patients and much more!

Course Tutor

BVSc MVS PG Cert Vet Stud MACVSc (Vet. Emergency and Critical Care; Medicine of Dogs)

COURSE FEE

AUD 289

Training 5 or more people?

Enroll 5 or more members of your practice and avail a special discount on the course fee!

Course Reviews

"I have found the course very interesting, have learnt an enormous amount and have thoroughly enjoyed it."
Margaret
UK
"Thanks for a brilliant course… so informative, well-written notes and your enthusiasm for teaching really helps the learning process."
Tina
USA
"Thank you so much! The course has been amazing. I have learnt so much and am applying it at work pretty much every day!"
Kate
Canada
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Dr Philip Judge

BVSc MVS PG Cert Vet Clin Stud MACVSc (Vet. Emergency and Critical Care; Medicine of Dogs)

Philip graduated from Massey University in New Zealand in 1992, and spent 7 years in small animal practice before undertaking a 3-year residency in veterinary emergency and critical care at the University of Melbourne in 1998.
Following his residency, Philip worked for nearly 6 years at the Animal Emergency Centre in Melbourne, becoming the Senior Veterinarian at the centre in 2004. In 2006, Philip undertook a 1-year surgical externship before moving to Townsville to take up the position of Senior Lecturer in Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care at JCU. Philip is also co-founder, and director of Vet Education Pty Ltd (www.veteducation.com.au) – one of Australia’s leading providers of online continuing education for veterinarians and veterinary nurses.

Philip has published numerous manuals and guides concerning emergency medicine, including a CRI manual, haematology and biochemistry interpretation guide, emergency anaesthesia guide, and a ventilation therapy manual for small animals, in addition to being published in peer reviewed literature.

Philip’s key interests in veterinary science include respiratory emergencies, ventilation therapy, envenomations and toxicology.

GET IN TOUCH

to avail group
enrolment discount

Dr Philip Judge

BVSc MVS PG Cert Vet Clin Stud MACVSc (Vet. Emergency and Critical Care; Medicine of Dogs)
Philip graduated from Massey University in New Zealand in 1992, and spent 7 years in small animal practice before undertaking a 3-year residency in veterinary emergency and critical care at the University of Melbourne in 1998.

Following his residency, Philip worked for nearly 6 years at the Animal Emergency Centre in Melbourne, becoming the Senior Veterinarian at the centre in 2004. In 2006, Philip undertook a 1-year surgical externship before moving to Townsville to take up the position of Senior Lecturer in Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care at JCU.
Philip is also co-founder, and director of Vet Education Pty Ltd (www.veteducation.com) – one of Australia’s leading providers of online continuing education for veterinarians and veterinary nurses.

Philip has published numerous manuals and guides concerning emergency medicine, including a CRI manual, haematology and biochemistry interpretation guide, emergency anaesthesia guide, and a ventilation therapy manual for small animals, in addition to being published in peer reviewed literature.

Philip’s key interests in veterinary science include respiratory emergencies, ventilation therapy, envenomations and toxicology.

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