This Mini Series is tailored towards Advanced Practitioners and those studying towards Advanced Practitioner status.

• Join Benito de la Puerta DVM CertSAS DipECVS MRCVS for three 2-hour online sessions and get expert advice on carrying out a selection of advanced procedures
• Comprehensive notes to downloaded
• Self-assessment quizzes to ‘release’ your 8 hours CPD certification (don’t worry, you can take them more than once if you don’t quite hit the mark first time)
• A whole year’s access to recorded sessions for reviewing key points.
• Superb value for money – learn without travelling
• Watch the recordings on your iPad!
• This Mini Series was originally broadcast in October 2016.

Programme

Surgical Treatment of Chronic Ear Disease

The first session in this series is dedicated to ear surgery in the dog and cat. We’ll examine the different surgical procedures step by step, as well as the indications, complications and outcome of each procedure.

What you’ll learn:

• The best approach to patients with ear disease
• Indications of when to perform a lateral wall resection
• Indications of when to perform a total ear canal ablation and lateral bulla osteotomy
• Indications of when to perform a ventral bulla osteotomy
• How to perform each procedure step by step, with plenty of video footage

Take a Dip into the Chest and Lose the Fear!

In this session we’ll look at thoracic surgery, beginning with how to get into the thorax by a lateral thoracotomy or a sternotomy. Once in the thorax, we’ll focus on surgical pulmonary diseases and how to perform a lung lobectomy safely.

What you’ll learn:

• How to surgically access the thorax
  • Lateral thoracotomy
  • Sternotomy
• Aetiology, diagnosis and treatment of surgical pulmonary disease
  • Lung lobe torsion
  • Pulmonary adenocarcinoma
  • Pulmonary abscess
  • Naughty blebs and bullas
• How to perform a lung lobectomy using staples techniques, explained via extensive images and videos

Remove the Gall Bladder and Close the Shunt

In the final session we’ll take an in depth look at gall bladder disease and how to surgically remove a gall bladder. We’ll also discuss the surgical treatment of extrahepatic portosystemic shunts.

What you’ll learn:

• How to manage a patient with gall bladder disease, especially gall bladder mucocele
• How to perform a cholecystectomy, step by step
  • Indications, outcome and complications
• How to manage a patient with an extrahepatic shunt
  • Diagnosis, stabilisation and surgical treatment