Limited to 70 participants

 A 2 day seminar

Boston

March 20 - 21, 2009

Cardio-respiratory update 

with 

Adjunct Associate Professor of Small Animal Medicine at the Ohio State University

& VCA Regional Director, Albuquerque NM

Howard Seim D.V.M.  

Diplomate, American College of Veterinary 

Surgeons

Professor of Surgery

Colorado State University

This seminar has been designed to present the most current information on the diagnosis and treatment of many cardiovascular and respiratory diseases that you are commonly asked to manage in your patients. The main emphasis of the seminars will be to give you practical information that you can readily utilize in your practice- along with providing information on the current treatments being offered at the referral centers. The majority of the problems will be presented in 30 minutes or less to maximize the material you take with you to your practice. Drs. Gordon, Seim & Padrid are internationally recognized experts in their fields and lecture extensively throughout the world.  All three speakers work at very busy clinical practices.  Because of their involvement with busy veterinary centers, these three personable speakers  approach clinical problems very practically. 

• Diagnostic tests in small animal respiratory medicine- starting with physical exam (anatomic diagnosis like Dr D used to do in neurology), moving thru the common and novel testing approaches (such as use pulse ox in the awake patient with pneumonia, heart failure to decide need to hospitalize, response to therapy etc) 

• Upper airway disease from nose to trachea- diagnosis and cutting edge treatments for nasal, pharyngeal, laryngeal and tracheal diseases - 

• Feline asthma including use of inhaled medications -includes comparisions with human asthmatics, included our experience in the last 5 years using inhaled meds on about 150 cats and about 50 dogs -  vidoes of cats with asthma that are open mouth breathing that get inhaled albuterol and are fine within 5 minutes for example

• Pleural disease-this covers a very novel approach to evaluating pleural fluid and thus the causes of pleural fluid accumulation that we do not teach in veterinary medicine but is the standard approach in human medicine and the approach I have been using for 10 years

• Canine chronic bronchitis- includes clinically relevant pathophysiology to help understand why dog airways collapse as they do, lots of videos to show various kinds of collapse under bronchoscopy and fluoro

• The 10 drugs I use in respiratory medicine 

• Diagnosis of canine laryngeal paralysis

• Surgical management and prognosis of canine laryngeal paralysis 

• Diagnosis and Management of Diaphragmatic Hernias 

• How to perform atraumatic thoracocentesis

• When and how to place a chest tube

• Surgical management of brachycephalic syndrome (stenotic nares, elongated soft palate, everted laryngeal saccules)

• Tracheostomies: temporary and permanent

• Hypertension in small animal medicine

Venue:

 Hilton Back Bay Hilton 

40 Dalton St. Boston

Phone Tel: 1-617-236-1100 Fax: 1-617-867-6104 

 

Group Room rate: $199.00 single or dbl/night plus taxes

 

Driving to Hotel 

From 90 East (Mass Pike):

FOLLOW 90 EAST TO EXIT 22, WHICH IS LOCATED INSIDE THE PRUDENTIAL UNDERPASS. STAY LEFT AND FOLLOW THE SIGNS FOR PRUDENTIAL CENTER. ABOVE GROUND YOU WILL NOW BE ON HUNTINGTON AVE. GOING WEST. TAKE YOUR FIRST RIGHT ONTO BELVIDERE STREET. FOLLOW BELVIDERE STREET FOR 1/2 BLOCK, THE HILTON WILL BE DIRECTLY IN FRONT OF YOU (WATCH FOR THE BLUE AWNINGS)

From the south:

TAKE EXIT 18, MASS AVE/ROXBURY EXIT (THIS EXIT IS NOW LOCATED ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF 93) FOLLOW THE SIGNS TO MASS AVE. WHEN YOU GET TO YOUR FIRST MAJOR INTERSECTION BEAR RIGHT ONTO MASS AVE. FOLLOW MASS AVE FOR ONE MILE, UNTIL YOU GET TO HUNTINGTON AVE. TAKE A RIGHT ONTO HUNTINGTON AVE. FOLLOW TO THE SECOND SET OF LIGHTS (GET IN THE LEFT LANE) TAKE A LEFT ONTO BELVIDERE STREET FOLLOW BELVIDERE FOR 1/2 BLOCK AND THE HILTON WILL BE RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU (WATCH FOR THE BLUE AWNINGS)

From the north:

TAKE EXIT 26A OFF OF 93 SOUTH. FOLLOW SIGNS TO STORROW DRIVE. FOLLOW STORROW DRIVE FOR ABOUT 2.5 MILES. TAKE THE FENWAY 1S EXIT (STAY IN THE LEFT LANE). FOLLOW UNTIL THE FIRST TRAFFIC LIGHT (STAY IN THE LEFT LANE). TAKE A LEFT THIS WILL BE BOYLSTON STREET GOING INBOUND. FOLLOW BOYLSTON STREET INBOUND TO THE FOURTH TRAFFIC LIGHT AND TAKE A RIGHT ON DALTON STREET. FOLLOW DALTON STREET FOR TWO BLOCKS AND PROCEED TO THE HILTON MOTOR ENTRANCE DIRECTLY ON YOUR RIGHT.

(directions sent with registration confirmation)

Seminar registration (16 CE hrs-also approved by  the AAVSB RACE program in most states including MA, VT, NH, ME, PA, RI & CT):

• Earlybird                    by March 2                  $645.00

• Regular                       after March 2              $675.00

Includes breakfast and lunch & breaks daily

Complete notes

Certificate of attendance

Directions to hotel will be mailed with confirmation

Cancellations-10% cancellation fee

For more Hotel information visit Boston Back Bay Hilton