2024
Emergency Medicine and Intensive Care in Companion Animals
Name: Emergency Medicine and Intensive Care in Companion Animals
Code: MVT14002I
3 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/78 hours
Scientific Area:
Veterinary Medicine
Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese
Presentation
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Sustainable Development Goals
Learning Goals
The expected learning outcomes of this curricular unit are as follows:
• Acquire knowledge about the pathophysiology, most common clinical presentations and therapy of the most common clinical entities in emergency medicine
• perform triage, primary and secondary evaluation of the main organ systems and stabilize the patient.
• Diagnose and efficiently treat the most common emergencies in the clinical practice of small animals.
The skills developed are as follows:
• design cost-effective diagnostic strategies for urgent and / or multiple trauma patients
• establish vascular access (central, peripheral and intra-bony) and establish a fluid therapy plan for the most frequent emergencies in small animals
• acquire urgent / emergent patient monitoring skills
• acquire skills to predict and react to complications that often occur in the most common emergencies
• acquire communication skills for tutors on the prognosis and management options available for emergency care.
• Acquire knowledge about the pathophysiology, most common clinical presentations and therapy of the most common clinical entities in emergency medicine
• perform triage, primary and secondary evaluation of the main organ systems and stabilize the patient.
• Diagnose and efficiently treat the most common emergencies in the clinical practice of small animals.
The skills developed are as follows:
• design cost-effective diagnostic strategies for urgent and / or multiple trauma patients
• establish vascular access (central, peripheral and intra-bony) and establish a fluid therapy plan for the most frequent emergencies in small animals
• acquire urgent / emergent patient monitoring skills
• acquire skills to predict and react to complications that often occur in the most common emergencies
• acquire communication skills for tutors on the prognosis and management options available for emergency care.
Contents
Emergency medicine (MU) and intensive care (CI):
MU assessment, screening and monitoring
Shock: pathophysiology. Vascular access and fluid therapy. Oxygen therapy and nebulisations
Electrolyte and acid-base imbalances: diagnosis and therapy. (Para) enteric nutrition in MUCI
Critical patient analgesia. Drugs used in MUCI
Paediatric emergencies: pathophysiology, diagnosis, drugs and syndromes
Dyspnoeic patient: therapy and diagnosis. Cardiac arrhythmias in MU
Acute abdomen: diagnosis and therapy
Heat stroke: pathophysiology, diagnosis and therapy
Polytrauma patient: pathophysiology, diagnosis and therapy, emergency imaging. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Sepsis and shock
Coagulation disorders in MU: Pathophysiology of ICD, therapeutic
Intoxications: main toxics and antidotes. Neurological emergencies. Endocrine emergencies.
Rapid tests, cytology and clinical analysis in MU
Advanced patient monitoring techniques in MUCI
MU assessment, screening and monitoring
Shock: pathophysiology. Vascular access and fluid therapy. Oxygen therapy and nebulisations
Electrolyte and acid-base imbalances: diagnosis and therapy. (Para) enteric nutrition in MUCI
Critical patient analgesia. Drugs used in MUCI
Paediatric emergencies: pathophysiology, diagnosis, drugs and syndromes
Dyspnoeic patient: therapy and diagnosis. Cardiac arrhythmias in MU
Acute abdomen: diagnosis and therapy
Heat stroke: pathophysiology, diagnosis and therapy
Polytrauma patient: pathophysiology, diagnosis and therapy, emergency imaging. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Sepsis and shock
Coagulation disorders in MU: Pathophysiology of ICD, therapeutic
Intoxications: main toxics and antidotes. Neurological emergencies. Endocrine emergencies.
Rapid tests, cytology and clinical analysis in MU
Advanced patient monitoring techniques in MUCI
Teaching Methods
The teaching sessions are theoretical and theoretical-practical. In theoretical classes, the themes related to urgencies and intensive care will be exposed, focus the teaching in pathophysiology, clinical presentation, diagnosis, monitoring, therapy and prognostic factors of the most common emergencies of small animals. Theoretical-practical classes involve carrying out practical emergency procedures and intensive care on cadavers and carrying out practical diagnostic and therapeutic exercises in real and virtual clinical cases where the knowledge acquired in the theoretical teaching sessions will be applied.
The evaluation process consists in continuous evaluation or the final exam options. In the continuous evaluation option, students are submitted to a written test in the middle of the semester and to a second written test at the end of the semester. The half-term test has a ponderation factor of 0.5 and the end-of-semester test has a ponderation factor of 0.5. In the final exam the
The evaluation process consists in continuous evaluation or the final exam options. In the continuous evaluation option, students are submitted to a written test in the middle of the semester and to a second written test at the end of the semester. The half-term test has a ponderation factor of 0.5 and the end-of-semester test has a ponderation factor of 0.5. In the final exam the
Teaching Staff (2023/2024 )
