Symposium attendees should check out these events during the final 2 days of this year’s event
The 2024 Southwest Veterinary Symposium (SWVS) kicked off on Thursday, September 26, in Fort Worth, Texas. With sessions running through the weekend, here are 6 more presentations that attendees won't want to miss.
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Speaker: Brennan McKenzie, MA, MSc, VMD
During this session, McKenzie examines evidence that shows not all changes in clinical lab values can be dismissed as “normal aging,” including blood lipids, insulin, and ALP and ALT, among others.
Speaker: Kelly Foltz, CVT, LVT, RVT, VTS (ECC)
This session serves as a companion to Foltz’s lecture Me-OUCH!: Feline Pain Assessment, and reviews the physiology of pain and ethology of feline pain behavior. Foltz explains current intervention strategies, including pharma and non-phrama alternatives.
Speaker: Lucy Sumners, RVT, VTS (ECC)
Sumners discusses triaging a range of GI disturbances and emergencies, in addition to core questions to ask the pet owners, initial interventions, therapies, and monitoring.
Speakers: Steve Marsden, DVM, ND, MSOM, and Kären Marsden, BA, DVM
Steve and Kären Marsden will cover 3 Chinese medical diagnoses, and their associated treatments, aiming to resolve allergic dermatitis with traditional holistic medicine, providing past case examples.
Speaker: Amber R. Hart, RVT, VTS (ECC)
In this session, Hart will discuss the effects that recumbency can have on various systems within a patient’s body, including urination and defecation, respiration, nutrition, body temperature, pain responses, and mobility, and explains methods of providing quality nursing care.
Speaker: Angela Rathmann, CVT, VTS (ECC), (SAIM)
Rathmann will walk session attendees through the process of recognizing red-flags of a potential Addisonian patient as soon as they enter the hospital, in addition to discussing various pathophysiologies, presentations, stabilization, and treatment methods.