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Highlights for Saturday,
September 20
EXHIBIT HALL HOURS
9 am - 1:30 pm
Last Day to Visit the Exhibits!
View Exhibitor Floor Plan
SPECIAL EVENTS
6:45 am - 7:45 am
Special Daybreak Cardiology Session: Wildflower C
Sponsored by Boehringer Ingelheim
7 am - 7:50 am
Resident's Focus Day Break Session: Grand Sonoran D
Sponsored by Pfizer
12:15 pm - 1 pm
Disaster Medicine Lunchtime Lecture: Grand Sonoran D
Sponsored by Bayer
5:15 pm - 6 pm
VECCS General Membership Meeting: Grand Sonoran D
6 pm - 7 pm
AVTA & ACVA Reception: Wildflower Terrace
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Welcome to day three 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, let us know.
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Meeting Overview
IVECCS in Pictures
From the Hospital Managers' Breakfast and Technician Luncheon to the Exhibit Hall Happy Hour and AVECCT Reception to last night's IVECCS 20th Anniversary Party, see pictures from yesterday's key events and sessions. View Slideshow
High-tech techs get pinned
Kristin King, one of the technicians pinned last night during the AVECCT Pinning Ceremony and Reception, said that a lecture at IVECCS 4 years ago inspired her to pursue accreditation. "I was listening to a lecture called 'Thinking like a critical care nurse' that opened my eyes about what I could be," said King, who works at DoveLewis Emergency Animal Hospital in Portland, Ore.
King attended the ceremony with Meredith Rose, the ICU manager of DoveLewis, who also was pinned last night. Rose said that she wanted to become certified because she wanted to continue honing her skills. "I don't ever want to stop learning," she said.
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Hot Topics
FROM THE EXPERTS
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You can't afford to miss the following sessions scheduled for Saturday, September 20.
 | Then and Now:
20th Anniversary Edition:
-History of Fluid Resuscitation in Shock
-Monitoring the Critical Patient
-Heart Failure in Dogs
and Cats
8 am - 12 pm
Grand Sonoran F
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| Large Animal:
-Rapid Ultrasonographic Imaging of the Adult Equine Acute Abdomen
-Rapid Ultrasonographic Imaging of the Neonate Equine Acute Abdomen
-Significance of Heart Murmurs in Horses
8 am - 12 pm
Grand Sonoran I
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| Practice Management: Analyzing Your Invoices
8 am - 12 pm
Desert Suite VII
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| Transfusion
-Use of Plasma in the Critical Patient
-Anemia and Transfusion in Critical Illness
-Transfusion Therapy
1:30 pm - 5 pm
Wildflower B
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| Then and Now:
20th Anniversary Edition
-Gastric Dilation Volvulus
-Nutrition and the
Critically Ill
-Anesthesia and Analgesia for the Critical Patient
1:30 pm - 5 pm
Grand Sonoran F
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| Technician:
Veterinary Nurse
Manager Workshop
1:30 pm - 5 pm
Desert Suite VI
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Show Coverage:
Sessions and Special Events
Getting clients to
accept your fees
Discussing fees with clients, especially the high cost of emergency and critical care, can be an uncomfortable but necessary part of a practice, according to Shawn McVey, of Innovative Veterinary Management Solutions.
Most people can afford to pay for veterinary services, McVey said yesterday during the Hill's-sponsored Practice Management Session, but sometimes they become angry because they don't understand the value of the service or its actual cost. It is important for practice staff to emphasize the services that are provided rather than the cost.
"We have confused caring and paying as the same thing. They have nothing to do with one another," he said. "Your job is to get clients to understand what they are paying for."
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Tricks from the ER trenches
Triage can be overwhelming, said Dr. Elizabeth Rozanski from the Tufts Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, in a session sponsored by Hill's Pet Nutrition on Friday.
Dr. Rozanski explained that the priority in emergency medicine should be making sure that the heart, brain and lungs are stable.
An important new thought in emergency medicine is the major body system concept, which deals with the heart, brain and lungs. "If you can find a disease that will kill you without affecting the heart, brain or lungs, I'll give you $1,000," Dr. Rozanski said. "If you die from kidney disease, for example, it's not really the fault of the kidneys; it's ultimately the heart's fault. You have electrolyte abnormalities that keep the heart from functioning."
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Ultrasound can help technicians help their practice
"I used to think ultrasound was a bunch of voodoo bunk," said Ali McKenna, CVT, in a radiology session for technicians sponsored by Hill's Pet Nutrition on Friday. "Animals would be brought to the radiology department, and the radiologist would say, 'Oh, the animal has this.' I thought that was crazy because [ultrasound] looks like a bunch of shadows."
After working at a referral hospital in Memphis, Tenn., however, Ms .McKenna used ultrasound as a diagnostic tool about 5 times each day, and her understanding and fascination with the technology grew.
"When you start recognizing the normal structures and what things are supposed to look like, all of a sudden you [see something wrong] and can say, 'Hey, that doesn't look right,' and you can take noninvasive samples. I see this as the future for technicians. Board-certified radiologists are important, but to back them up as part of the veterinary team, technicians can take a role in this," Ms. McKenna said.
During the session, she explained that ultrasound works by sending sound waves through tissues. Depending on the density and the consistency of the tissues, some of the waves are bounced, or echoed, back. The computer attached to the probe interprets the echoes and creates a picture. Structures that are more reflective, such as minerals, show up brighter on the screen, but the waves go right through things that are not as reflective, such as urine. Read more
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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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This is your last day to visit some of the 150 exhibits in the Exhibit Hall!
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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: Recording Secretary
Scott I. Johnson, DVM
Dr. Scott Johnson is a longtime VECCS member who has only missed one IVECCS in 20 years and served as member-at-large on the VECCS executive board for 2 years before being selected to serve as recording secretary. Beginning his career in equine medicine, he became interested in emergency and critical care when he joined an emergency practice in 1987, the Emergency Animal Hospital of NW Austin in Texas, which he now owns. Dr. Johnson's two decades of critical care experience has allowed him to witness what he calls a dramatic change in emergency and critical care medicine.
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