ON-DEMAND - Online
Emergency and intensive care – One step beyond the basics
Course Overview
Our popular modular course in emergency and intensive care is back! The course is divided into two main areas: emergency care and intensive care. You’ll get access to recorded lectures, quizzes, and course materials that you can view at your own pace. All content is available through an online course portal.
Course Description
This course is designed for veterinary nurses and experienced animal carers who have worked in emergency or intensive care and wish to deepen their knowledge and skills. We cover topics such as monitoring, triage, fluid therapy, case studies, and much more. You’ll gain the tools and confidence to take your work with emergency and critical care patients to the next level.
Target Audience
Licensed Veterinary Nurses and Animal Carers working at small animal hospitals, particularly those with experience in emergency or intensive care units.
Course Content
Approach to the dyspnoeic patient
The bleeding patient
Common intoxications – management from the first phone call to ICU admission
Blood pressure and perfusion
RECOVER guidelines – what do they really say?
Venous access
Nursing plans for ICU patients
Catheters, tubes and feeding tubes – help or hindrance in ICU?
Monitoring: what we measure and what it tells us
Fluid therapy, electrolytes and blood gases – there’s always more to learn
Transfusion medicine – what every nurse should know
Pain – assessment and management
Learning Outcomes
After completing the course, participants are expected to:
Feel confident managing the initial care of critical emergency patients arriving at a clinic or hospital
Understand the concept of shock – pathophysiology, clinical signs, and treatment principles
Have knowledge of common intoxications and their management
Be familiar with the RECOVER CPR guidelines and their theoretical basis
Have sound theoretical and practical knowledge of fluid therapy, blood gases, and electrolyte disturbances
Be able to create nursing plans for ICU patients
Understand the principles of monitoring and caring for critical patients in intensive care
Be up to date on adequate analgesia for this patient group
INSTRUCTORS
Anna Forsblom, leg. djursjukskötare, Cert. VNECC, NCert Anesth
Anna has focused on emergency and intensive care for 20 years, beginning her career at the first small animal intensive care unit in Scandinavia, Regiondjursjukhuset in Helsingborg. She has since contributed to the development of intensive care, emergency care, and blood banking as a department manager at both Regiondjursjukhuset Bagarmossen and Specialistdjursjukhuset Strömsholm, and has also worked for several years as an operations developer at MittNorrlands Djursjukvård. Anna is currently working at Awake Animal Hospital in Stockholm. She has lectured at numerous conferences and trained staff across a variety of organizations.
Emelie Pettersson, licensed veterinarian, MSc, PhD
Emelie Pettersson graduated as a veterinarian from The University of Melbourne in 2008. After six months working in mixed practice in Sweden, she returned to Australia to work as an emergency veterinarian at the Animal Emergency Centre, a leading emergency and intensive care animal hospital in Melbourne. She returned to Sweden in 2012 and initially worked at Specialistdjursjukhuset Strömsholm, where she served as the senior veterinarian responsible for the emergency department, and later at UDS in Uppsala. Emelie now works at SVA, but she remains a highly valued lecturer with extensive experience in teaching emergency and intensive care.