Small Animal Surgery

• Revise asepsis, sterilisation and appropriate antibiosis for surgical cases
• Instrumentation and instrument handling
• Gloving and gowning
• Uses of suture, needles, staples and clips
• Principles of wound healing - primary and delayed closure, secondary healing - and how this applies to clinical cases
• Re-visit the principles of wound management and get up-to-date with what is available now

• Understand the anatomy of the urinary tract
• Discuss the surgical options for obstructive diseases of the urinary tract – ureters, bladder and urethra
• Describe the approach to urinary tract trauma – kidneys, ureters, bladder and urethra
• Discuss treatment options for urinary incontinence, including colposuspension, TVT and urethral occluders
• Describe the surgical approach to neoplasia of the urinary tract
• Understand the common surgical disorders of the female and male reproductive tracts and their treatment options

Key Learning Objectives

• Surgical approaches to salivary gland disease
• Esophageal disease - indications for surgical treatment
• Gastrotomy and gastrectomy - indications beyond GDV
• Small intestinal disease and how to minimize complications
• Ruptures and hernias

Key Learning Objectives

• Large intestinal surgery - differences between cats and dogs
• Surgical approaches to the rectum and anus
• Different options for liver surgery – suture, staples or electrosurgery
• Biliary tract surgery – anatomy and surgical options
• Pancreatic surgery
• Splenectomy - indications, techniques and alternatives to surgical removal

Key Learning Objectives

• Surgery of the lips, cheeks and tongue
• Surgical treatment of palatal abnormalities
• Maxillectomy and mandibulectomy
• Pharyngeal surgery and options for tonsillar surgery
• Aural surgery: lateral wall resection, vertical canal ablation, ventral bulla osteotomy, total canal ablation, lateral bulla osteotomy and approach to aural hematoma

Key Learning Objectives

• Conditions of the nasal planum according the animal´s age
• Indications for nasal sinuses surgery
• Brachycephalic airway syndrome
• Surgery of the larynx: paralysis, collapse, trauma, stenosis and neoplasia
• Surgery of the trachea: tracheotomy, tracheostomy, tracheal avulsion, collapse, resection/anastomosis, trauma, foreign bodies and neoplasia  

Key Learning Objectives

• Peritonitis: pathophysiology, clinical signs, diagnosis and treatment options
• Thoracic surgery
• Differences between small and large dogs
• Thoracostomy for pneumothorax, pyothorax and chylothorax
• Thoracotomia
• Lung lobectomy
• Pericardectomy
• PDA 
• PRAA - regurgitating patients and thoracotomy
• Chylotorax 
• Chest wall diseases

Key Learning Objectives

• Principles of oncologic surgery: approaches to the most common tumors seen in practice
• Latest treatment options for mast cell tumors
• Oral tumors - performing maxillectomy and mandibulectomy
• Gastrointestinal tumors
• Feline-specific tumors

• Wound closure - Tension relieving techniques, management of ‘dog ears’
• Pedicle Flaps - advancement, rotational and transposition to help close the larger or trickier defects
• Muscle and omental flaps - using muscle in defects by practising the external abdominal oblique muscle flap
• Skin grafts - full thickness and stamp and how to maximise their chances of success

• Total ear canal ablation (TECA) and lateral bulla osteotomy - Suture materials and special instruments, post-op care and assessment, complications
• Ventral bulla osteotomy - Suture materials and special instruments, post-op care and assessment, complications
• Thyroid surgery - Thyroidectomy in the dog, thyroidectomy in the cat demonstration
• Unilateral arytenoid lateralisation - Pre-op management, anaesthesia, surgical anatomy, surgical technique, post-op care and assessment

• Thoracotomy - Pre-op management, anaesthesia, surgical anatomy, surgical technique, post-op care and assessment
• Lung lobectomy - Partial and complete lobectomy
• Pericardectomy - Subtotal and total
• Patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) - Pre-operative management, anaesthesia, surgical anatomy, surgical technique, post-op care and assessment

• Oesophageal foreign bodies - Pre-op management, anaesthesia, surgical anatomy, surgical technique, post-op care and assessment
• Gastric dilatation volvulus - Temporary and permanent gastropexy

• Nephrectomy and nephrotomy - Partial nephrectomy, ureteronephrectomy, indications for nephrotomy
• Urethrostomy - Prescrotal, scrotal, perineal, prepubic

Key Learning Objectives

• Shoulder conditions including luxation, osteochondrosis, dysplasia and excision arthroplasty surgery
• Elbow conditions including, luxations, IOHC, dysplasia, developmental disease and ununited anconeal process
• Developmental carpal disease, carpal hyperextension, arthrodesis and luxations of the carpus and foot
• Growth plate disorders

Key Learning Objectives

• Pros and cons of surgical options for the ruptured cruciate ligament
• Alternative causes of stifle dysfunction besides the cranial cruciate ligament
• Relate the underlying causes of patellar luxation with the appropriate surgical approach
• Hock anatomy - conditions that affect the joint including osteochondrosis and luxation
• Possible treatments for conditions that affect the hip including dysplasia and luxation
• Pros and cons of total hip replacement

Key Learning Objectives

• Initial assessment of the fractured patient
• Fracture classification
• Principles of fracture repair and practical applications
• Fracture fixation methods and implants including plating and external fixation devices

Key Learning Objectives

• Principles of fracture reduction, including both closed and open techniques
• Bone grafting - cancellous and cortical
• Fore and hindlimb specific fracture stabilization
• Clinical approaches to the following complications: Delayed union/Non-union/Mal-union/Osteomyelitis

Key Learning Objectives

• Systematic neurological exam and interpretation: localizing spinal lesions
• Application of neurodiagnostics
• Approach and management of paraplegia and tetraplegia
• Clinical approach to neurological emergencies, including cranial trauma and status epilepticus

Key Learning Objectives

• Surgical options for spinal surgery according to site
  • Cervical spine - ventral slot procedure
  • Thoracolumbar spine - hemilaminectomy 
  • Lumbosacral spine - dorsal laminectomy 
• CSF tap and myelography - landmarks for acquiring CSF samples and obtaining diagnostic myelograms 

• Perform a caudolateral and craniomedial approach to the shoulder joint
• Perform a biceps tenotomy
• Revise various elbow joint procedures
• Perform a medial and lateral approach to the elbow joint
• Perform a subtotal coronoidectomy
• Apply a lag screw fixation to fix the Ununited Anconeal Process (UAP)
• Execute a proximal/distal ulna osteotomy

• Perform a craniodorsal approach to the hip
• Identify all the steps to correctly perform a femoral head ostectomy (FHNO)
• Approach to the stifle joint laterally
• Execute lateral fabello-tibial sutures
• Perform recession trochleoplasties
• Describe the key stages involved in a tibial tuberosity transposition procedure

• Application of cerclages and tension band fixations
• Application of positional and lag screws
• Tibial fractures
• Medial approach to the tibia
• Application of a bone plate
• Radial fractures
• Cranio-medial / lateral approach to the radius
• Application of a bone plate
• Femoral fractures
• Lateral approach to the femur
• Application of a bone plate and an intramedullary pin (plate and rod)

• Recognise the most important features to correctly approach humeral fractures
• Approach the humeral shaft laterally
• Apply a bone plate and an intramedullary pin (plate and rod)
• Perform a dorsal approach to the carpal joint
• Perform a carpal arthrodesis
• Perform a medial and lateral approach to the tarsal joint
• Perform a tarsal arthrodesis

• Cancellous bone grafting
• Harvest cancellous bone from the proximal humerus
• Review external fixation equipment
• Pins, bars and clamps
• Tibial Fracture
• Surgical repair with a type II linear frame
• Comminuted Radial Fracture
• Surgical repair with a type Ib linear frame