VetCPD has announced the launch of a new CPD Congress being held in the beautiful World Heritage city of Bath, famed for its Roman Baths and stunning Georgian architecture, and just up the road from VetNurse.co.uk Towers.

The event is being held in the Bath Assembly Rooms, right in the heart of the city, on Thursday 21st and Friday 22nd September 2017.

Organiser Simon Guiton MRCVS said: "The programme is based on current hot topics for veterinary surgeons and nurses. We've got a great line up of speakers, not to mention everything else that Bath has to offer by way of culture, restaurants and shopping. It sure beats Milton Keynes on a wet Friday afternoon!"

The programme for veterinary nurses is as follows:

Day One

• The role of the surgical assistant
• Advanced anaesthetic monitoring – a case study
• Nursing the chemotherapy patient
• Pain management – assessment and treatment options
• Nursing the diabetic patient
• Assisted feeding in the cat: why, when and how?
• How to be a good cat handler – making your practice cat friendly

Day Two

• Head trauma and how to deal with it
• Assessment of blood smears in the emergency patient
• Triage and initial patient assessment
• Maintenance of tubes and drains
• Getting a great ECG and interpreting arrhythmias
• Nursing the heart failure patient
• Nursing the ocular trauma patient

Speakers include Emi Barker, Esther Barrett, Kieran Borgeat, Gwen Covey-Crump, Angie Hibbert, Nicola Kulendra, Shasta Lynch, Natasha Mitchell, Kostas Papasouliotis, Anita Patel, Louise O’Dwyer, Denise Prisk, Suzanne Rudd, Claire Woolford and Holly Witchell.

For more information, visit: http://vetcpdcongress.co.uk 

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