Anesthetic Monitoring for the Small Animal Patient

Open to All Audiences

The purpose of this dry lab is to give attendees an understanding behind the practical monitoring of the small animal anesthetic patient.  Utilizing concepts describe in the 2020 AAHA Anesthesia Guideline, attendees will learn in-depth concepts regarding monitoring of the cardiovascular, respiratory and thermoregulatory systems.  How to prepare and set up a patient, as well as troubleshoot common complications.  Simulation or case-based concepts will be utilized to enable the participants to react to a given scenario of the patient, such as bradycardia, hypoventilation and hypercapnia.The lab will be broken into three parts:

1. Discussion on the basic physiologic monitoring devices utilized by the anesthetist.
2. Hands-on set-up, usage, and troubleshooting of monitoring devices.
3. Simulation-based scenarios that the attendees, given a patient complication, must be able to set up the anesthesia patient, recognize potential patient complications, troubleshoot, and determine potential appropriate therapy.