Test Your Knowledge!
Question
What are the indications for the administration of fresh frozen plasma?
Answer
Fresh frozen plasma is prepared by the separating whole blood and plasma, and freezing the plasma component within 8 hours of collection.
It contains all the coagulation factors, including Von Willebrand’s factor and small amounts of albumin.
It is used in the treatment of coagulopathies, including rodenticide toxicity, hemophilia and disseminated intravascular coagulation.
How did you get on? This question and answer are from Simon Tappin, course tutor on the highly practical and very popular GP Refresh Course. Read on to see how this course can revitalise your practice skills.
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The Refresher course for Vets in General Practice
Instead of a subject-specific CPD course, do you just want a really good update in several key small animal practice areas? Are you returning to small animal practice after a career break or coming to work in the UK and want a broad introduction to best practice in the UK?
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The Refresher Course for GP Vets
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What sort of things will we help you sort out!
You’ve taken a blood sample, but what do the results mean?
Let GP Refresh medic Andrew Kent guide through the maze
You have taken a chest radiograph, what is that lung pattern suggesting?
GP Refresh imager Abby Caine is here to help you see that little bit more!
Sedation is required in a blocked cat, what is the safest, most effective option?
Carl Bradbrook will explain exactly how you can hit the target
Which wound dressing should you use, there are so many?
Catherine Sturgeon will show you how to make exactly the right choice
Our 6 approachable and friendly speakers have selected a variety of subject areas to discuss with you. They will provide you with clear, reassuring and practical guidance, equipping you with the confidence to cope with the complexity and diversity of small animal practice in the UK today.
Not just theory! There's lots of practical stuff too!
Otitis externa practical, how to insert a chest drain, wound dressings, enterotomy/ectomies, film reading sessions, sutures, staples and clips
There's lots of practical stuff too on GP Refresh
The 2016 GP Refresh Course Dates
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- Monday, 1st August
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August
3
- Wednesday, 3rd August
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Studley, Warwickshire
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The 2016 GP Refresh Course Programme
Day 1 Medicine and Dermatology
- Infectious diseases update
- Hepatopathies and pancreatitis- what you need to know
- Canine Atopic Dermatitis, Pyoderma and Malassezia dermatitis
- Endocrine updates for today’s practice
- Getting the most from your ‘in house’ laboratory
- Fleas and other creepy crawlies
- Otitis externa (practical)
Day 2 Emergency Care and Radiography
- Blood transfusions in first opinion practice
- Blocked cats and how to unblock them
- How to drain a chest (practical)
- Abdominal radiography- what can you see? (practical)
- Thoracic radiology- sort out those lung patterns! (practical)
Day 3 Anaesthesia and Surgery
- How to use Sutures, staples + clips (practical)
- Wound management – getting them to heal (practical)
- Current Anaesthetic equipment and agents and how to use them
- Exploratory laparotomy
- Enterotomy + enterectomy + cystotomy (practical)
- How to sedate your patients safely in typical practice scenarios
- Analgesia – what’s new
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The 2016 GP Refresh Course Tutors
Course Leader
- Catherine Sturgeon BVetMed(Hons) CertSAS DipECVS MRCVS
Course Tutors
- Abby Caine MA VetMB CertVDI DipECVDI MRCVS
- Vanessa Schmidt BVSc(Hons) CertVD DipECVD MRCVS
- Carl Bradbrook BVSc CertVA DipECVAA MRCVS
- Simon Tappin MA VetMB CertSAM DipECVIM-CA MRCVS
- Andrew Kent BVSc MRCVS
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