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Highlights for Friday,
September 19
EXHIBIT HALL HOURS
9 am - 1:30 pm
2:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Happy Hour in Exhibit Hall:
5:15 pm - 6:30 pm
View Exhibitor Floor Plan
SPECIAL EVENTS
6:45 am - 7:45 am
Hospital Managers' Breakfast: Wildflower C
Sponsored by Purina Care
7:30 am - 5:30 pm
ACVECC Exam Validating: Chairman's Board Room
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm
Technician Luncheon: Grand Saguaro South
Sponsored by Nestlé Purina
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm
ACVECC Diplomate Business Meeting: Grand Sonoran D
5:15 pm - 6:30 pm
Happy Hour and Poster Abstract Viewing: Exhibit Hall
Sponsored by Bayer and VPI
7 pm - 9 pm
Resident-Intern-Student Reception: Isla del Sol Terrace
Sponsored by Nestlé Purina
7 pm - 9 pm
ACVECC Diplomate Reception: Tuscany Ristorante
Sponsored by Pfizer
7 pm - 9 pm
AVECCT Reception & Pinning Ceremony: Wildflower Terrace
Sponsored by Nestlé Purina and Pfizer
8 pm - 10:30 pm
IVECCS 20th Anniversary Celebration: Sunset Lawn
Sponsored by Bayer and VECCS
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Welcome to day two of the IVECCS 2008 E-News Daily, providing highlights and coverage of key sessions and events at the International Veterinary Emergency & Critical Care Symposium. If you do not wish to receive the E-News Daily,
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Meeting Overview
IVECCS in Pictures
From the Resident's Focus Day Break Session to the Knowles Memorial Lecture and Award Ceremony to last night's Welcome Reception, see pictures from yesterday's key events and sessions. View Slideshow
Ira M. Zaslow VECCS Distinguished
Service Award 2008 Recipient
Last night, the VECCS Board of Directors presented Dr. Elke Rudloff as the 2008 recipient of the Ira M. Zaslow Award for Distinguished Service. Dr. Rudloff, director of education at the Animal Emergency Center in Glendale, Wis., received this award for her many contributions to the advancement of this specialty and for her significant professional accomplishments. She has demonstrated exceptional dedication and commitment to the clinical discipline of veterinary emergency and critical care medicine and to the society while most notably serving as the VECCS program chair for the past 10 years. Read more
Hill's Dr. Jack Mara ACVECC Scientific Achievement Award
Last night, Dr. Chick Weisse was presented as the 2008 recipient of the Hill's Pet Nutrition Dr. Jack Mara ACVECC Scientific Achievement Award for Advances in Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology. Dr. Weisse is director of interventional radiology services and assistant professor of surgery at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine. He has been active in developing interventional radiology, which offers hope for non- or minimally invasive procedures in improving pet's lives, including but not limited to tracheal collapse, intrahepatic liver shunts, urethral tumors and tumor embolization.
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Hot Topics
FROM THE EXPERTS
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You can't afford to miss the following sessions scheduled for Friday, September 19.
 | The Team Approach to Treating the Emergency Patient with Respiratory Distress: Medicine, Imaging and Surgery
8 am - 12 pm
Grand Sonoran E
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| Emergency Medicine Fundamentals
8 am - 12 pm
Grand Sonoran F
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| Technician:
-Driving the Endoscope
-Ultrasound Essentials
-Uniquely Feline
8 am - 12 pm
Grand Saguaro East
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| Shock: Advanced Clinician
1:30 pm - 5:15 pm
Grand Sonoran G
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| Practice Management:
-Client Satisfaction Surveys
-Benchmark Statistics
1:30 pm - 5:15 pm
Wildflower A
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| Technician: Then and Now
Veterinary Technology
1:30 pm - 5:15 pm
Grand Sonoran K
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Show Coverage:
Sessions and Special Events
The Robert P. Knowles Memorial Lecture
At the 12th annual meeting of VECCS in 1986, a lecture series honoring Dr. Robert P. Knowles, past president of VECCS, was inaugurated. This lecture series was established in Dr. Knowles' name by Ms. Karen Payne, a grateful owner, for the care Dr. Knowles had given to her cat Sheba. Last night renowned criticalist Dr. Steve Haskins, one of the founders of VECCS, IVECCS, and ACVECC, gave a presentation on how and why we have progressed to this point in emergency and critical care.
"Dr. Steve Haskins has taught at each and every IVECCS since our inception," said Dr. Susan Barnes, president of VECCS, when she introduced the Knowles Memorial Lecture. "During his time at UC Davis, he worked in the intensive care unit and had a lot of experience with families who had pets in intensive care. The Knowles Lecture was given in honor of Robert Knowles, and represented the relationship of our patients and the pet owners and honors that special bond with the patient, family and veterinarian. During Dr. Haskins' time at UC Davis and throughout his career, he has had many of those special relationships," said Dr. Barnes. Read more
NIV may be a viable alternative for cats
Eight healthy cats were randomly assigned to either noninvasive mechanical ventilation (NIV) or invasive ventilation using an endotracheal tube to assess the feasibility of NIV in cats and to find out whether cardiovascular parameters and anesthetic drug requirements differed between NIV and invasive methods. Read more
Don't give clients grief about grieving
The veterinary critical care setting can be one of the most difficult emotional places for clients who need to be guided through a situation to enable them to make good and immediate decisions about their animal's care.
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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-Elect
Dr. Elke Rudloff
One of the reasons Dr. Elke Rudloff, president-elect of VECCS, loves emergency and critical care (ECC) medicine is because she "thinks in the moment," making life or death decisions based on the animal's current situation, not its history.
And everyday, she faces new challenges. "If you have one patient that is hit by a car, its needs are going to be different from another patient that is hit by a car," says Dr. Rudloff, senior emergency and critical care clinician at the Animal Emergency Center in Glendale, Wis.
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