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Title: “Fundamentals of Rodent Surgery and Post-operative Care - Two Part Live Webinar Series - January 2 & 9”
Date: Wednesday, January 2, 2013
Time: 01:30 PM - 03:30 PM ET US

Webinar 1: Fundamentals of Rodent Surgery

Webinar 2: Do's and Don'ts of Rodent Post-operative care and assessment

These are the most requested and popular topics!!!

What others have said:

“This was a great tool for many of us who are limited in industry right now to travel to obtain continuing education credits for many credentials we may have in our field.”

“This was an excellent webinar. I would definitely recommend it to my colleagues.”

“Very informative and useful for anyone doing rodent surgery or developing a training program for others performing surgery.”

Faculty: Marcel Perret-Gentil, DVM, MS University Veterinarian & Director Laboratory Animal Resources Center The University of Texas at San Antonio San Antonio, TX click here for bio
Szczepan Baran, VMD, MS President Veterinary Bioscience Institute & Course Director Online Masters of Laboratory Animal Medicine Drexel University College of Medicine click here for bio
Panelists : Matthew Flegal, BS, SRS Manager Anesthesia and Surgery Genzyme Corporation click here for bio
Jennifer C. Smith, DVM, DACLAM Veterinary Sciences Department Taconic Farms, Inc. click here for bio

These webinars meet the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science (AALAS), Canadian Association for Laboratory Animal Science (CALAS), and Academy of Surgical Science (ASR) requirements for Continuing Education Units. Each participant will receive 2 Certificates of Attendance.

These webinars are being reviewed by the AAVSB RACE program for 4 continuing education credits for veterinarians and veterinary technicians. Please contact the AAVSB RACE program at race@aavsb.org should you have any comments/concerns regarding this program's validity or relevancy to the veterinary profession.

Description:

These webinars have been adopted from the full Principles of Rodent Surgery course developed by renowned experts in the rodent surgical field.

You will receive access to this course and the webinar recording for two weeks.

Who Should Attend?

 
This interactive webinar is designed for scientists and support staff, veterinary technicians, veterinarians, institutional animal care and use committee members responsible for

1. Preparing rodents for surgeries.
2. Performing or assisting in rodent surgical procedures.
3. Performing and assisting wiht rodent peri- and post-operative care.
4. Developing and reviewing rodent surgery policies, SOPs and protocols.
5. Managing rodent surgery programs.

All techniques will be demonstrated with streaming videos and high quality illustrations.

This webinar series will cover the following topics:

Part 1:

1. Rodent surgery regulations, guidlines, requirements and definitions
2. Aseptic technique
3. Surgical preperation
4. Instrument selection and handling
5. Suture use and selection
6. Magnification
7. Ergonomics
8. Tissue handling and dissection
9. Body wall and skin closure

Part 2:

1. Peri-operative care
2. Peri-operative pain and distress assessment techniques
3. Intervening to reduce pain and distress
4. Effects of hypothermia and strategies to prevent hypothermia
5. Heat support equipment review
6. Post-operative antibiotic use and infection control strategies
7. Addressing expected and unexpected post-surgical complications
8. Post-operative nutritional and fluid support
9. Implementation of humane endpoints
10. Post-surgical enrichment
11. Record keeping

Technical requirements:

Please review this one day prior to the webinar.

Audio Content is provided through:
   1. a toll-free phone number in US and a toll local number outside of US (view available local toll numbers here)
   2. audio is also available through Skype. New to Skype? Click here.

Visual Content is provided through internet.
Visualization of video content during VBI webinars requires the following software. The latest version of the Adobe Flash Player version, which can be downloaded from http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/

What operating systems are supported by VBI webinars?
VBI uses a Fuze Meeting platform which is universally compatible with Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Mac OS X, SUSE, and Red Hat Linux. Fuze Meeting is compatible with most major browsers including Internet Explorer 7 & 8, Firefox 2 & 3, Safari 4 & 5, Google Chrome, and Opera.

What ports are used by Fuze Meeting? - Important Please Read
Fuze Meeting communicates on ports 80 and 443. Please make sure these ports are open in your firewall or you may have trouble starting meetings or using Fuze Messenger.

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