2007 MVMA Summer Seminar

Thursday, June 14, 2007
Continuing Education and Conference Center, St. Paul Campus
Room 135AC

Seminar Day
8:00 - 9:00 - Registration & Coffee
9:00 - 12:00 - Seminar
12:00 - 1:00 - Lunch
1:00 - 5:00 - Seminar

Pre-registration fees (before June 1, 2007)		On-Site Registration fees (after June 1, 2007)
MVMA Veterinarian	$160	MVMA Veterinarian	$185
Staff/Spouse	$90	Staff/Spouse	$105
Student	$60	Student	$75
MN Non Member Veterinarians Add $50

Coffee breaks are scheduled midmorning and midafternoon--breaks, proceedings and lunch are included in the price of registration.

6 CE credits are given for this seminar

Cancellation must be done 48 hours prior to the seminar for a refund - a fee of 10% is nonrefundable

Veterinary students will be given the opportunity to register for the seminar, if space is available, 5 days prior to the seminar for a $20 fee. Students will be informed by a broadcast e-mail.

Balanced anesthesia in cats
Cats tend to be more sensitive to the cardiovascular depressant effects of inhalant anesthetics than dogs. Therefore, balanced anesthetic techniques, aiming at reducing the requirements for inhalant anesthetics, and the associated cardiovascular depression are of particular interest in that species. This lecture will review the benefits and disadvantages of balanced anesthetic techniques used in cats, including systemic and epidural opioids, nitrous oxide, ketamine, lidocaine, and alpha-2 agonists.

Local and regional anesthesia in dogs and cats
Local and regional anesthetic techniques provide analgesia or anesthesia, and can be used alone or as an adjunct to general anesthesia, improving intra- and/or post-operative analgesia, preventing wind-up, allowing to reduce the requirements for general anesthetics, etc. A brief review of the pharmacology of local anesthetics will be provided. Regional anesthetic techniques commonly used in small animals will be described. These include mandibular nerve block, infraorbital nerve block, intercostal nerve block, interpleural analgesia, brachial plexus block, forearm block, intravenous regional anesthesia, and epidural analgesia/anesthesia.

Systemic analgesia in dogs and cats
Providing pain relief is arguably one of the veterinarian’s most important roles. However, surveys suggest that pain is often under-treated in small animal patients. Options for analgesia include opioids, local anesthetics, alpha-2 agonists, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, NMDA receptor antagonists, anticonvulsants, antidepressants and agents with effects on multiple receptors such as tramadol. The pharmacology of these agents will be briefly reviewed, and protocols for their practical use will be described.

Alpha-2 agonists and antagonists in dogs and cats
Alpha-2 adrenoceptor agonists and antagonists are commonly used to provide sedation and analgesia in companion animals. These drugs affect many physiological functions, in particular the cardiovascular system. The various effects of these drugs will be reviewed, and their use in small animals will be discussed.

Common anesthetic complications and their management
Anesthetic agents depress many physiological functions. The most common anesthetic complications include hypotension, hypoventilation and hypothermia. Also common is inadequate depth of anesthesia. These complications and a few other less common, such as cardiac arrhythmias will be described, and their management discussed.

Bruno Pypendop, DrMedVet, DrVetSci, Dipl. ACVA
Dr. Pypendop graduated from the University of Liege, Belgium in 1992. He started the Belgian equivalent of PhD (DrVetSci) in clinical pharmacology and clinical work in small animal anesthesia. Dr. Pypendop completed DrVetSci in 1999 and a residency in anesthesia at UC Davis from 1999 to 2002. He was a lecturer in anesthesia at UC Davis from 2002 to 2004 and is currently an Assistant Professor (small animal anesthesia) at UC Davis since 2004. His research focus: clinical pharmacology of anesthetic and analgesic agents, with an emphasis on cats.