Date: 28-29th November 2026

Modality: Streaming

Competencies and objectives:

• Learn and understand how to effectively triage patients to efficiently establish the priority and urgency of treatment.
• Identify different types of fluids, understand how to use them, and maximise their therapeutic utility in emergency situations.
• Understand different acid-base disturbances and their interpretation

Module Summary:

• Introduction, Triage and stabilization.
• Fluid Therapy
  
  • Fluids and strategies for fluid administration.
  • Colloids.
  • Vasopressors.
• Acid-Base interpretation:
  
  • Traditional approach.
  • Nontraditional approach and case examples

Speaker: Carlos Pizarro

Date: 28-29th November 2026

Modality: Streaming

Competencies and objectives:

• Understand the current CPR guidelines in Small Animals (RECOVER guidelines).
• Understand the utility and applicability of life-saving procedures for patient stabilization.

Module Summary:

• CPR: RECOVER guidelines.
• IV emergency access.
• Nasal catheter.
• Nasogastric tube.
• Orogastric tube.
• Tracheostomy.
• Thoracocentesis.
• Abdominocentesis.
• Urethral catheterizatio.

Speaker: Marta García Arcve

Date: 19-20th December 2026

Modality: Streaming

Competencies and objectives:

• Understand the physiology, pathophysiology, clinical significance, and effects on the body of electrolyte disturbances, along with therapeutic strategies for correcting electrolyte disorders
• Understand the physiopathology of different types of shock and recognise each type to accurately tailor diagnostic and therapeutic strategies in the emergency room.
• Recognise shock and establish a protocol for stabilisation and the use of appropriate fluid therapy in every shock situation

Module Summary:

• Shock
  • Physiopathology of Shock.
  • Hypovolaemic shock.
  • Distributive shock.
  • Obstructive shock.
  • Cardiogenic shock
• Dyskalaemia
• Other electrolyte imbalances: Calcium, Phosphate, Magnesium.
• Dysnatremia
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Speaker: Clara Mattavelli, Luís Bosch

Date: 19-20th December 2026

Modality: Streaming

Competencies and objectives:

• Recognise pain and understand the different pain pathways to choose an appropriate analgesia for the unstable patient.
• Understand the effects of sedation, anaesthesia and analgesia in the critical patient to provide safe sedation and/or anaesthesia.
• Recognise the monitorisation techniques for haemodynamic control.
• Understand the fundamentals of mechanical ventilation.

Module Summary:

• Analgesia and sedation
  • Pain and pain pathways.
  • Evaluation of anaesthetic risk: ASA.
  • Breathing circuits and the anaesthetic machine.
  • Sedation in emergency patients.
  • Anaesthesia in emergency patients.
  • Pain assessment and management in emergency patients.
  • Local blocks in emergency medicine.
• Monitorisation
  • ECG and cardiac function.
  • Invasive and non-invasive Blood pressure.
  • Pulse-oximetry and Co-oximetry.
  • Capnography.
• Mechanical ventilation
  • Respiratory physiology.
  • Mechanical ventilation and the mechanical ventilator.
  • Ventilation modes.
  • Sedation and anaesthesia for long term ventilation.
  • Complications of mechanical ventilation.

Speaker: Angie Lozano, Aurora Zoff, Alfonso Rodríguez, Roger Medina

Date: 30-31st January 2027

Modality: Streaming

Competencies and objectives:

• Understand and differentiate among different conditions affecting red and white blood cells and identify the need for treatment.
• Establish the most appropriate therapy for hematologic disorders.
• Understand the characteristics and properties of the different blood products and their applicability for different conditions.
• Anticipate and reduce complications from blood product administration.

Module Summary:

• Haematologic emergencies:
  • Anaemia.
  • Thrombocytopaenia.
  • Coagulopathies.
  • Leucocytosis and leukopaenia.
• Transfusion medicine
  • Blood products.
  • Blood types.
  • Cross matching.
  • Whole blood and pRBC transfusion.
  • Plasma transfusion.
  • Platelets transfusion.
  • Albumin transfusion.
  • Massive transfusions.
  • Xenotransfusions.
  • Transfusion reaction.

Speaker: Margaux Kuijlaars

Date: 30-31st January 2027

Modality: Streaming

Competencies and objectives:

• Identify urinary and reproductive problems in the emergency setting.
• Identify and manage acute kidney injury.
• Understand the fundamentals, applicability and indications for renal replacement therapies (RRT).

Module Summary:

• Urinary emergencies:
  • Urethral obstruction.
  • AKI (Acute kidney injury).
  • Uretheral obstruction.
  • Uroabdomen.
  • UTI (urinary tract infection).
  • Introduction to RRT.
• Reproductive emergencies:
  • Dystocia.
  • Eclampsia.
  • Pyometra.
  • Prostate disease.
  • Testicular disease.
  • Neonatal resuscitatio.

Speaker: Lara Brunori

Date: 27-28th February 2027

Modality: Streaming

Competencies and objectives:

• Management of the trauma and polytrauma patient.
• Identify the most emergent problems in polytrauma patients and establish a priority list for management.
• Understand the importance of sepsis and how to identify and manage it.
• Understand the current human and veterinary guidelines to treat sepsis.

Module Summary:

• Trauma and polytrauma
  • Thoracic trauma.
  • Abdominal trauma.
  • Coagulation and trauma.
  • Diagnostic imaging in the polytrauma patient.
• Sepsis and SIRS.
• Antibiotic use in emergency medicine.

Speaker: Sorcha Probert, Carlos Pizarro

Date: 27-28th February 2027

Modality: Streaming

Competencies and objectives:

• Management of intoxications and decontamination techniques.
• Understand and predict consequences and side effects of common intoxications.
• Identify and manage environmental emergencies.

Module Summary:

• Intoxications:
  • Paracetamol.
  • Chocolate.
  • Xylitol.
  • Grapes.
  • Onions.
  • Recreational drugs.
• Environmental emergencies:
  • Heat stroke.
  • Hypothermia.
  • Smoke inhalation.
  • Drowning.
  • Electrocution.
  • Anaphylaxis.

Speaker: Jennifer McKenzie

Date: 20-21st March 2027

Modality: Streaming

Competencies and objectives:

• Identify and differentiate gastrointestinal emergencies including localization of the problems.
• Establish a diagnostic approach for identifying gastrointestinal emergencies.
• Establish an appropriate medical or surgical treatment for gastrointestinal emergencies.

Module Summary:

• Acute vomiting.
• Acute diarrhoea.
• Acute abdomen.
• GDV.
• Pancreatitis.
• Hepatic failure.
• GI Foreign body.
• Parvoviru.

Speaker: Carlos Pizarro

Date: 20-21st March 2027

Modality: Streaming

Competencies and objectives:

• Understand the different diagnostic techniques to identify and differentiate respiratory and cardiovascular problems.
• Establish a logical differential diagnosis and localisation of respiratory and cardiovascular problems based on presentation and respiratory patterns.
• Establish the priority action points for stabilisation of respiratory and cardiovascular problems.
• Understand the utility of respiratory gases.
• Understand the different means for oxygen support and their applicability.
• Differentiate between the need for oxygen support and ventilatory support.
• Identify the key points of the management of cardiovascular emergencies.
• Identify and manage life threatening arrhythmias.

Module Summary:

• Respiratory distress and initial management.
• Upper airway and pleural space emergencies.
• Cardiac examen and initial management in Emergency.
• Cardiac exam and initial management in Emergency.
• Congestive heart failure in dogs and cats.
• Circulatory and vascular emergencies.

Speaker: Frane Ivasovic

Date: 24-25th April 2027

Modality: Streaming

Competencies and objectives:

• Describe and interpret a comprehensive neurological exam to establish a differential diagnosis using correct neuro-localisation.
• Establish an appropriate treatment and protocol for stabilising neurological patients in the emergency setting.
• Understand the necessity of further testing or advanced imaging.

Module Summary:

• Neurological exam and Neurolocalisation.
• Seizures.
• Central Nervous System Disease and Traumatic Brain Injury.
• Vestibular and Peripheral Neuropathies.

Speaker: Adriana Kaczmarska

Date: 24-25th April 2027

Modality: Streaming

Competencies and objectives:

• Recognize endocrine emergencies and differentiate from other emergencies.
• Manage the stabilization and endocrine crisis and establish the appropriate diagnostics and timing for treatment.

Module Summary:

• Hypoadrenocorticism.
• Hyperadrenocorticism.
• Pheochromocytoma.
• Diabetic crisis.
• Diabetes insipidus.
• DKA.
• Hyperglycaemic Hyperosmolar syndrome.
• Thyroid storm.
• Hypoglycaemia.
• Hyperaldosteronis.

Speaker: Lara Brunori