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Dive into sessions across livestock, equine, and companion animal topics led by renowned experts

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Immerse yourself in unparalleled learning with a stellar line up of speakers covering a diverse array of topics

Vets Cymru brings together the BSAVA and Wales Veterinary Science Centre to deliver three streams suitable for large animal practioners, as well as small animal companion vets and vet nurses. The team is the heart of any practice, which is why we will have something for everyone. For hands-on learning join Burtons for a drop in practical session.

CPD Certificates will be emailed to all attendees following the event.

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Programme

With over 36 sessions to choose from, gain 12 hours of CPD when joining us for the full 2-day event!

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Large Animal Stream
    • Large Animal Stream
    Hugh Owen: A14
    • Understand the importance of vector borne diseases as emerging global disease threats.
    • Identify specific vector borne disease threats and how we determine the risk level.
    • Identify ways of improving our detection and surveillance of Vector borne diseases.
    Chairperson
    • Large Animal Stream
    Hugh Owen: A14
    • Become familiar with how tick-borne disease burdens are changing in the UK - key drivers, risk factors and impacts.
    • Understand the One Health approach and how ecology, social science, modelling and epidemiology are being combined to understand impacts of livestock tick-borne diseases and develop new solutions (within the OPTICK project).
    • Understand the role of farmer, vet and land manager perceptions and priorities in tick-borne disease management, highlight opportunities to engage with the OPTICK and TICKSOLVE projects.
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    Chairperson
    • Large Animal Stream
    Hugh Owen: A14
    • A review of the clinical signs of specific ND’s of greatest significance to UK livestock currently.  
    • The means by which suspected ND incidents should be reported. 
    • Highlight the key frontline role practitioners play in ND surveillance.  
    Chairperson
    • Large Animal Stream
    Hugh Owen: A14
    • How the comparative lung anatomy affects the differing pathophysiology of pulmonary disease in horses and cattle.
    • How the difference in pulmonary mechanics results in different susceptibility to clinical respiratory disease in horses and cattle.
    • How differences in large animal husbandry impact the types of respiratory disease that predominate in horses and cattle.
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    Chairperson
    • Large Animal Stream
    Hugh Owen: A14
    • Host immune responses to respiratory infections from the neonate to adult animal.

    • The impact of stress and environmental factors on immune responses.

    • Assessing recent advances in immunology from novel diagnostics to infectious disease research.

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    Chairperson
    • Large Animal Stream
    Hugh Owen: A14
    • Feel more confident about seeing poultry as a first opinion.
    • Common conditions presented by owners of back yard flock.
    • Practical solutions and possible outcomes of backyard poultry conditions.

     

    • Large Animal Stream
    • Small Animal Vet Stream
    • Small Animal Nurse Stream
    Exhibition Drinks Reception
    Penbryn: Medrus Mawr
    Join us in the exhibition hall after last lectures for complimentary drinks and nibbles.
Small Animal Vet Stream
    • Small Animal Vet Stream
    Hugh Owen: A12
    • New tips about how to choose anti-itch treatments for an itchy dog.
    • New tips about how to work out why an itchy dog is itchy to enable long-term control.
    • More confidence and knowledge about dogs with ear canal disease and helping them.
    Chairperson
    • Small Animal Vet Stream
    Hugh Owen: A12
    • How to evaluate on clinical examination a puppy with particular attention to the CV system with the correct auscultation technique. 
    • Different heart murmurs and their causes.
    • The differential diagnosis for different heart murmurs, discussing those that need treatment and those that don't.
    Chairperson
    • Small Animal Vet Stream
    Hugh Owen: A12
    Chairperson
    • Small Animal Vet Stream
    Hugh Owen: A12
    • The most important step in managing a cancer case is educating and communicating with the owner!
    • What benefit advanced imaging / referral-level staging will bring over staging tests in-house for common cancers.
    • Factors of high and low prognostic significance in common small animal cancers.
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    Chairperson
    • Small Animal Vet Stream
    Hugh Owen: A12
    • New tips about how to choose anti-itch treatments for an itchy cat.
    • New tips about how to work out why an itchy cat is itchy to enable long-term control.
    • Confidence and knowledge about feline dermatology.
    Chairperson
    • Small Animal Vet Stream
    Hugh Owen: A12
    • The equipment needed to safely administer cytotoxic drugs in practice.
    • Important safety measures to prevent exposure of  yourself or your staff to cytotoxic drugs. 
    • Appropriate pre-and post-chemo monitoring tests for commonly-used cytotoxic medications.
    Chairperson
    • Large Animal Stream
    • Small Animal Vet Stream
    • Small Animal Nurse Stream
    Exhibition Drinks Reception
    Penbryn: Medrus Mawr
    Join us in the exhibition hall after last lectures for complimentary drinks and nibbles.
Small Animal Nurse Stream
    • Small Animal Nurse Stream
    Penbryn: Medrus 4
    Caring for a pet with cancer should be viewed as a highly important step in promoting animal welfare. A clear career development pathway for interested RVNs to specialise in veterinary oncology is now developing, and in this lecture we will discuss more about what the “Onco-RVN” job is about!
    Chairperson
    • Small Animal Nurse Stream
    Penbryn: Medrus 4
    • Understand the hierarchy of different evidence sources using practical examples. 
    • Skills for critically analysing different types of evidence.
    • Explore what makes some evidence ‘good’ or ‘bad’ and how we can spot the difference.
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    • Small Animal Nurse Stream
    Penbryn: Medrus 4
    • Legislation and guidance around RVN and SVN delegation. 
    • The benefits of effective nurse delegation and utilisation. 
    • Methods to promote nurse utilisation in clinical practice
    • Small Animal Nurse Stream
    Penbryn: Medrus 4
    • Appreciation of different wound dressings and their uses.
    • Correct application of wound dressings based on phase of wound healing.
    • Understand how to take an evidence-based approach to wounds. 
    • Small Animal Nurse Stream
    Penbryn: Medrus 4
    • Why blood pressure should be measured.
    • Which cases should have blood pressure measured, what clinical signs and diseases could potentially lead to abnormalities in blood pressure.
    • How to measure blood pressure accurately and repeatably.  What possible pitfalls can occur and how to resolve them.
    Chairperson
    • Small Animal Nurse Stream
    Penbryn: Medrus 4
    • New tips about how to make visiting veterinary practices better for cats, their owners and their veterinary helpers too.
    • Identify stressed cats and how to help.
    • Being more confident as a cat advocate in your practice.
    • Large Animal Stream
    • Small Animal Vet Stream
    • Small Animal Nurse Stream
    Exhibition Drinks Reception
    Penbryn: Medrus Mawr
    Join us in the exhibition hall after last lectures for complimentary drinks and nibbles.
Practicals
    • Practicals
    Penbryn: Medrus 3
    • How to support the vet in taking samples.
    • Practice how to set up Laparoscopes, bronchoscopes and gastroscopes.
    • New and updated techniques for cleaning and disinfecting scopes that will save valuable nursing time
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    • Practicals
    Penbryn: Medrus 3
    • New techniques to get you through the pylorus, Improve your driving skills and reduce patient anaesthesia times
    • Practice removing foreign bodies using different instruments and techniques
    • Know how to obtain good pathological samples and learn how to reduce equipment failure and breakages
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Large Animal Stream
    • Large Animal Stream
    Hugh Owen: A14
    • The biology and epidemiology of liver fluke and rumen fluke, and it’s relevance to control of these parasites.
    • Diagnostic approaches to both parasites and how these can be used appropriately in different farm settings and at different times of the year to assess risk and inform management.
    • Different treatment options, their advantages and limitations, and the ability to develop a farm-appropriate treatment control plan using this information alongside diagnostic/risk assessment. 
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    Chairperson
    • Large Animal Stream
    Hugh Owen: A14
    • How chemotherapeutic control of flukes is underpinned by effective diagnostics.
    • How diagnostics can be utilised for both the animal and the environment.
    • The roles of fluke extracellular vesicles and how they can be exploited for improved diagnostics.
    Chairperson
    • Large Animal Stream
    Hugh Owen: A14
    Key Learning Objectives Consider the climate change events in Uganda and UK What are the effects on farming practices and human population? Examine strategies to mitigate harmful climate effects.
    Chairperson
    • Large Animal Stream
    Hugh Owen: A14
    An informal interactive discussion specifically designed to help you and your practice set up and run a successful farmer group.  We will discuss the key points of the following areas: What to include ...
    Chairperson
    • Large Animal Stream
    Hugh Owen: A14
    Key Learning Objectives Working with the vet to help understand and utilise animal health and welfare regulations of the new Sustainable Farming Scheme. Developing a relationship with your vet and wha ...
    Chairperson
    • Large Animal Stream
    Hugh Owen: A14
    • The Animal Health Improvement Cycle-what is it?
    • Biosecurity-how can we improve farm biosecurity?
    • How can we promote on farm Welfare improvements?
    Chairperson
    • Large Animal Stream
    Hugh Owen: A14
    Key Learning Objectives You will learn how to realise what is shaping yours and others communication and interactions. Helping you become self-aware creates options and the possibility of doing things ...
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Small Animal Vet Stream
    • Small Animal Vet Stream
    • Small Animal Nurse Stream
    Hugh Owen: A12
    • The importance of optimising antimicrobial use in practice.
    • Currently available stewardship tools and resources.
    • When antibiotics should (and shouldn't) be used for surgical prophylaxis.
    Chairperson
    • Small Animal Vet Stream
    Hugh Owen: A12
    • Practical investigation techniques for obstructive FLUTD.
    • Practical tips to relieve obstruction more successfully.
    • The principles of tube cystotomy, perineal urethrostomy and prepubic urethrostomy.
    Chairperson
    • Small Animal Vet Stream
    Hugh Owen: A12
    • Know the different mechanisms underlying jaundice in the dog focusing on post-hepatic aetiologies.
    • Develop a logical approach to the diagnostic investigations of biliary disease.
    • Recognise and manage common differentials for this presentation including gall bladder mucoceles
    Chairperson
    • Small Animal Vet Stream
    Hugh Owen: A12
    • Understand the blood supply to random pattern flaps, axial pattern flaps and free skin grafts. 
    • Understand the planning required for free skin grafts to overcome the barriers to survival.
    • How to plan the development of random pattern flaps and the common axial pattern flaps (TDAPLF, CSEAPF)Understand the planning required for free skin grafts to overcome the barriers to survival.
    Chairperson
    • Small Animal Vet Stream
    • Small Animal Nurse Stream
    Hugh Owen: A12
    • Develop a logical stepwise approach to pyrexia investigation.
    • When anti-pyretic measures can be employed empirically.
    • Differentiate between infectious and non-infectious aetiologies of pyrexia
    • Small Animal Vet Stream
    Hugh Owen: A12
    • Identify cases suitable for surgery based on histopathological diagnosis.
    • Identify cases suitable for a straightforward surgical solution.
    • How to perform rostral mandibulectomies, premaxillectomy and rostral maxillectomies.
    Chairperson
Small Animal Nurse Stream
    • Small Animal Vet Stream
    • Small Animal Nurse Stream
    Hugh Owen: A12
    • The importance of optimising antimicrobial use in practice.
    • Currently available stewardship tools and resources.
    • When antibiotics should (and shouldn't) be used for surgical prophylaxis.
    Chairperson
    • Small Animal Nurse Stream
    Penbryn: Medrus 4
    • Define coaching and mentoring and identify the purpose of each in veterinary practice.
    • The benefits of coaching and mentoring to the individual, the team, and the organisation.
    • The roles of coaching and mentoring in relation to effective clinical learning and development.
    Chairperson
    • Small Animal Nurse Stream
    Penbryn: Medrus 4
    • Understand the investigations that are useful to plan management of cats with obstructive FLUTD.
    • Understand and assist with unblocking difficult cases of FLUTD.
    • Plan and deliver the nursing care of cats after relief of obstruction or surgery.
    • Offer owner’s advice on care after discharge.
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    • Small Animal Nurse Stream
    Penbryn: Medrus 4
    • Consider the basic underpinning principles of infection control in veterinary practice.
    • Become familiar with the tools needed in infection control.
    • Understand how to minimise the risk of nosocomial infections
    • Small Animal Vet Stream
    • Small Animal Nurse Stream
    Hugh Owen: A12
    • Develop a logical stepwise approach to pyrexia investigation.
    • When anti-pyretic measures can be employed empirically.
    • Differentiate between infectious and non-infectious aetiologies of pyrexia
    • Small Animal Nurse Stream
    Penbryn: Medrus 4
    • Identify common causes of stress and discuss its effects on the body.
    • Consider the attributes of a resilient veterinary nurse.
    • Understand how to proactively manage stress and identify the benefits of personal resilience.
    Chairperson
Practicals
    • Practicals
    Penbryn: Medrus 3
    • How to support the vet in taking samples.
    • Practice how to set up Laparoscopes, bronchoscopes and gastroscopes.
    • New and updated techniques for cleaning and disinfecting scopes that will save valuable nursing time
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    • Practicals
    Penbryn: Medrus 3
    • New techniques to get you through the pylorus, Improve your driving skills and reduce patient anaesthesia times
    • Practice removing foreign bodies using different instruments and techniques
    • Know how to obtain good pathological samples and learn how to reduce equipment failure and breakage 
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Meet The Speakers

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