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Highlights for Thursday,
September 18
EXHIBIT HALL HOURS
Registration: 7 am - 6 pm
Exhibit Hall Open:
10:15 am - 5:40 pm
View Exhibitor Floor Plan
SPECIAL EVENTS
7 am - 7:50 am
Residents Focus Day Break Session: Grand Sonoran D
Sponsored by Pfizer
7 am - 7:50 am
ACVA Roundtable:
Grand Sonoran B
Sponsored by Recathco
5:45 pm - 7:15 pm
Knowles Memorial Lecture/ General Session & Awards:
Grand Saguaro South
Sponsored by Hill's
7:30 pm - 9 pm
Welcome Reception:
Ballroom Lawn
Sponsored by Merial, Abbott & VECCS
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Welcome to the IVECCS 2008 E-News Daily. For the duration of the International Veterinary Emergency & Critical Care Symposium, Sept. 18-21, you will receive daily highlights and coverage of key sessions and events. If you do not wish to receive the E-News Daily, let us know.
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Meeting Overview
IVECCS in Pictures
From this week's VECCF Spay/Neuter event to last night's Second Annual Job Fair and the International Attendee Reception, see pictures from key events and sessions. View Slideshow
Happy Birthday, IVECCS!
About 400 people signed up to attend the first meeting of IVECCS 20 years ago. This year's meeting will see more than 3,000 attendees — from veterinarians and technicians to students and exhibitors.
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In Memoriam: Dr. Roger Gfeller
IVECCS 2008 is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Roger Gfeller, who died in a tragic car accident last year at the age of 58. Read more
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Hot Topics
FROM THE EXPERTS
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You can't afford to miss the following sessions scheduled for Thursday, September 18.
 | Small Animal Abstracts
by Residents
8 am - 12 pm
Grand Sonoran D
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| Large Animal Abstracts
8 am - 12 pm
Grand Sonoran I
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| Practice Management:
-Delivering Bad News
-Faciliating Euthanasia Decision Making
-Responding to Grieving
8 am - 12 pm
Wildflower A
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| Technician: CPR Workshop
8 am - 12 pm
Desert Suite III
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| ACVA Abstracts: Session A
1:30 pm - 5:15 pm
Grand Sonoran B
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| Interventional Radiology:
-IR for the ER
-Cases from the IR Suite:
Broad Reach of IR
1:30 pm - 5:15 pm
Grand Sonoran G
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Show Coverage:
Sessions and Special Events
Dr. Roger Gfeller Memorial Golf Tournament
IVECCS attendees and exhibitors, VECCS and ACVECC members and other veterinary personnel, family members and guests competed at the JW Marriott Desert Ridge Resort golf course yesterday to benefit the Roger Gfeller Memorial Scholarship Fund at KSU College of Veterinary Medicine. Approximately 40 people attended the golf tournament and more than $15,000 was raised in this event. Read more
VECCF volunteers put on free spay/neuter clinic
Veterinarians and technicians from around the world volunteered their time and expertise ahead of the IVECCS conference to take part in a 3-day free spay/neuter clinic at three local Indian reservations.
The clinics were organized by the Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care Foundation (VECCF) to help control the companion animal population on the reservations. Only dogs and cats owned by reservation residents were admitted. Read more
More research needed for vasopressin use in veterinary medicine
Exogenous vasopressin plays a role in treating a number of serious conditions in humans, including cardiac arrest, cardiovascular shock, diabetes insipidus, von Willebrands disease and serious gastrointestinal diseases, such as hemorrhagic gastroenteritis.
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Pain: a universal component of critical illness
Participants in Wednesday's Analgesia Lab, sponsored by Pfizer Animal Health, rotated through three stations that presented scenarios and hands-on technical experience emphasizing the importance of teamwork to provide optimal analgesia to critically ill animals.
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ATTENDEE INFORMATION
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Each attendee will receive coupons for lunch redeemable at lunch stations in the Exhibit Hall. The lunch coupons are included with your full IVECCS registration.
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A Cyber Cafe is set up outside the exhibit hall to offer attendees internet access. Sponsored by VIN.
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Don't forget to visit some of the 150 exhibits in the Exhibit Hall:
Happy Hour, Friday at 5:15 pm
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VECCS Bookstore is open 9 am to 6:30 pm through Sunday — pick up proceedings and CDs from this year and previous symposiums.
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VECCS Executive Profile: President
Harold Davis, RVT, VTS
Veterinary technician Harold Davis has spent most of his 30-year career making history.
In 1992, Harold was part of the organizing committee and later served as president of the first veterinary technician specialty academy, promoting the professional advancement of technicians nationwide. In 2004, he was asked to present the inaugural Jack L. Mara Memorial Lecture at the NAVC Conference, an honor now given annually to a notable technician. The following year, Harold helped conceptualize and plan the first National Conference of Veterinary Technician Specialty Academies.
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