This course is best trained hands-on, directly with your equipment and patients. Our RVT will coach positioning, troubleshooting, tips and tricks. We recommend scheduling dentals that you aren’t anticipating extensive extractions so we can move through several cases in a day.
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Anesthesia Machine: 1 hour Lecture or Webinar
This will cover the function and maintenance of the anesthetic machine.
Anesthesia Monitoring: 1-2 hour Lecture and Lab
Anesthesia is a multi-layer training from premeds, induction, intubation, monitoring equipment, machines, anesthesia safety, and post op care. We have several ways to approach this training, including working alongside your team with real cases, coaching them along the way to troubleshoot and connect the why with the how. The lecture: The 4 Phases of Anesthesia is most foundational and comprehensive to start.
ECGs: 1 Hour Lecture or Webinar
This presentation will go over how the ECG works, setting up the ECG, and ECG interpretation. The goal of this presentation is to get the attendee to be comfortable with normal ECG waveforms and able to recognize what is not normal.
Epidurals: 1 Hour Lecture or Webinar or Lab (if cadavers/patients available)
This lecture will go over why we use epidurals, the anatomy of the spine and nerves, as well as contraindications, advantages, and disadvantages of epidurals. It will also go over troubleshooting and medications used.
ETCO2 Review and Capnography Interpretation: 1 Hour Lecture or Webinar
This lecture will review the use of capnography in practice, why it’s important and common waveforms seen on a capnograph. This lecture will also review troubleshooting of capnography equipment.
Hypotension Correction Focus: 1 Hour Lecture or Webinar
This lecture will go over why maintaining blood pressure is important and the physiology behind blood pressure. We will go over how to tell the difference between hypotension from hypovolemia, or from a decrease in cardiac output. We will discuss different ways to correct hypotension and common medications used.
Local Blocks: 1 Hour Lecture or Webinar
This lecture will go over the reasons to use nerve blocks and common nerve blocks used in practice. This lecture will also go over how sodium channel blockers work and how to perform common nerve blocks.
Pain Management: 1 Hour Lecture or Webinar
We will discuss local regional blocks, CRI’s, and other injectable options during anesthesia.
Patient Restraint (Fear Free): 1 Hour Hands-On Lecture or Webinar
We will discuss fear-free handling of canine, feline, and avian species. This lecture will discuss and provide examples of alternative restraint techniques of patients that decrease fear and anxiety, as well as fractious animal handling techniques. Additional handling of exotics species can also be provided upon request.
Sedation Protocols: 2 Hour Lecture
This is a review of drugs available for sedation including the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics, how to combine them, and monitoring during sedation. A second lecture with exotics focus is also available.
Anesthesia Machine: 1 hour Lecture or Webinar
This will cover the function and maintenance of the anesthetic machine.
Anesthesia Monitoring: 1-2 hour Lecture and Lab
Anesthesia is a multi-layer training from premeds, induction, intubation, monitoring equipment, machines, anesthesia safety, and post op care. We have several ways to approach this training, including working alongside your team with real cases, coaching them along the way to troubleshoot and connect the why with the how. The lecture: The 4 Phases of Anesthesia is most foundational and comprehensive to start.
ECGs with Chelsey V.!: 1 Hour Lecture or Webinar
This presentation will go over how the ECG works, setting up the ECG, and ECG interpretation. The goal of this presentation is to get the attendee to be comfortable with normal ECG waveforms and able to recognize what is not normal.
ETCO2 Review and Capnography Interpretation: 1 Hour Lecture or Webinar
This lecture will review the use of capnography in practice, why it’s important and common waveforms seen on a capnograph. This lecture will also review troubleshooting of capnography equipment.
Hypotension Correction Focus: 1 Hour Lecture or Webinar
This lecture will go over why maintaining blood pressure is important and the physiology behind blood pressure. We will go over how to tell the difference between hypotension from hypovolemia, or from a decrease in cardiac output. We will discuss different ways to correct hypotension and common medications used.
Local Blocks: 1 Hour Lecture or Webinar
This lecture will go over the reasons to use nerve blocks and common nerve blocks used in practice. This lecture will also go over how sodium channel blockers work and how to perform common nerve blocks.
Pain Management: 1 Hour Lecture or Webinar
We will discuss local regional blocks, CRI’s, and other injectable options during anesthesia.
Peripheral Nerve Stimulation: 1 Hour Lecture or Webinar
We will discuss understanding of what peripheral nerve stimulators (PNS) are, how they work, and the goal of utilizing them. This lecture will also go over the advantages, disadvantages, and contraindications for use. This lecture will also go over what medications to use for nerve blocks and common nerve blocks performed with a PNS. If you have a PNS in your hospital, we are also able to coach alongside you directly with your equipment and patients.
Ventilators: 1 Hour Lecture or Webinar & 1 Hour Lab
This lecture will go over the types of anesthesia ventilators, how they work, and troubleshooting the equipment. It will also go over when to use (or not to use) a ventilator and advantages/disadvantages of ventilating patients under anesthesia. The lab gives the hands on assembly/disassembly, bellow sizing, connecting the patient, calculating appropriate settings, troubleshooting.
CPR: 1.5-2 Hour Hands On Lecture
This lecture will go over the process of performing CPR. Focus will be on recognition of CPA, the roles involved in CPR, teamwork dynamics, medications, etc. Attendees will learn the basics of how to perform CPR, the use of emergency drugs, and monitoring techniques. The hands-on training portion, the team will learn how to perform CPR. Technique will be the focus. Attendees will learn how to perform effective compressions and how to properly ventilate during the CPR. Teams will also go through some advanced scenarios to be able to respond in real time using CPR models (mannequins provided).
IV Catheters: 1 Hour Lecture & Lab
This is a 30 minute lecture of vascular anatomy, the parts of an IVC, different types of IV catheters, positioning, sterile prep, tips and tricks for successful placement. The other 30 minutes will be hands-on practice with mannequins. Focus will be maintaining sterile field, proper positioning and finesse of advancing an IV catheter, as well as standard taping techniques to ensure stability in the vessel.
Medical Math: 1 Hour Lecture
This lecture will give technicians a better understanding of how to do common medical math calculations. Starting out with basic calculations and progressing to complex CRI calculations. A handout with common formulas and practice worksheets will be provided.
Triage: 1 Hour Lecture or Webinar
This lecture is great for all staff (including your CSRs) to attend. This is a lecture that covers from the client’s phone call to the treatment room. We discuss common urgent/emergencies, and how to handle the call, the prep for arrival, and patient presentation.
Central Catheters: 1-2 Hour Lab (depending on number of participants)
This wet lab (using cadavers) provides hands-on instruction for placing central catheters (jugular and hind limb PICC). Attendees will have an opportunity to practice placing these catheters with instruction and guidance. Written SOP and protocols will be provided for the team/hospital.
Nasal Tubes: 1-2 Hour Wet Lab (depending on number of participants)
This is a wet lab using cadavers. Attendees will receive instruction and guidance on the placement of nasogastric, nasoesophageal, and nasal oxygen catheters. Written SOP and protocols will be provided.
Shock: 1 Hour Lecture or Webinar
The technician’s role in managing patients in shock is vital to successful patient outcomes. This lecture will discuss the pathophysiology of shock. We will go over the various types of shock as well as the different stages of shock our patients may be dealing with. Our main focus will be on the technician’s role in managing patients in the various types of shock states.
Transfusions: 1 Hour Lecture or Webinar
This lecture will cover the basics of transfusion medicine and the technicians’ role in administering blood products. We will discuss the different components involved in transfusions and the uses for each one. Attendees will be able to understand the importance of blood typing and cross matching and how to perform each of these tests. We will end with going over instructions on how to perform transfusions and how to monitor for transfusion reactions.
Urinary Catheters: 1-2 Hour Lecture & Lab (depending on number of participants)
This wet lab (using cadavers) provides instruction and guidance on different types of urinary catheters, sterile practices, placement in males and females, and collection system setup. Written SOP and protocols will be provided.
Urinary Obstruction: 1 Hour lecture or Webinar
This lecture discusses what is happening during a urethral obstruction. We talk about the pathophysiology of the obstruction itself, but there is also a focus on the consequences that obstruction has on the rest of the body. Learning about electrolyte abnormalities, cardiac disturbances, and fluid balance will give attendees a better understanding of how to successfully manage these patients.
Addison’s Disease: 1 Hour Lecture or Webinar
Addison’s Disease can be very challenging to diagnose. Often the diagnosis happens after all other possibilities are ruled out. This lecture will give attendees an understanding of what happens that leads to Addison’s patient having hypotension, electrolyte abnormalities, and hypovolemia. We will discuss the technician’s role in managing these patients.
Canine Parvovirus: 1 Hour Lecture or Webinar
This is a discussion of Parvovirus starting with the pathophysiology of the disease including transmission, incubation periods, and preventions. We will discuss diagnostics and monitoring of our parvo patients. We will talk about the different treatment options like medications and advanced catheter/feeding tube placements. We will also touch briefly about isolation protocols. At the end we will have a fun discussion dispelling some of the internet “myths” on how to treat parvovirus.
