7th EVECCS Congress
Gothenburg, Sweden May 29th - June 1st 2008

Program

Pre-congress day
Wet Labs
Main Program Veterinarians
Main Program Veterinary Technicians
Speakers

Hereby the local organizing committee has the privilege to announce a new Friday morning program in collaboration with Blå Stjärnan Small Animal Hospital and Blackwell Publishing. We have invited Dr Yaron Bruchim and Dr Joris Robben to be speakers for a "Meet the experts" session. The subjects are heat stroke, snake bite evenomation and hypoglycemia. Dr Bateman, editor of the Journal of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care, will give a "How to get published" session. The price for the "Meet the experts" session is 600 SEK (64 €) excl VAT and needs registration. Please send an email to eveccs2008@congrex.com and state clearly (name and clinic) that you would like to register for this session. The "How to get published" session is free and needs no registration. These lectures, which are open to both veterinarians and veterinary technicians, will be held at the Elite Park Avenue Hotel in the lower part of the large lecture hall. General registration for the congress and these lectures will open 07.00 just outside the lecture hall.

Main Program Veterinarians: 30th May – 1st June 2008
Venue Elite Park Avenue Hotel Kungsportsavenyn 36-38 Gothenburg
Friday 30th May 2008
07.00 - 08.00 Registration
08.00 - 08.40 Management of patients with heat stroke Yaron Bruchim
08.45 - 09.30 Management of snake bite evenomation Yaron Bruchim
09.30 - 10.00 Coffee break
10.00 - 10.45 Hypoglycemia in small animal medicine Joris Robben
11.00 - 12.00 "How to get published" Shane Bateman
12.00 - 13.00 Lunch and opening of the exhibition
13.00 - 13.45 Grand opening
Taking care of the trauma patient…a joint effort
Kate Hopper & Harold Davis
14.00 - 14.45 The pathophysiology of trauma Jennifer Devey
14.45 - 15.15 BREAK/EXHIBITION
15.15 - 16.00 Emergency approach to thoracic trauma Matt Beal
16.10 - 17.00 Emergency approach to abdominal
trauma
Matt Beal
17.10 - 18.15 Abstracts
SATURDAY
07.15 - 08.00 Daybreak session… The year in review…
Progress in science in veterinary emergency and
critical care
Kate Hopper
08.15 - 09.00 Shock and six degrees of separation Kate Hopper
09.15 - 10.00 Emergency approach to head trauma Matt Beal
10.00 - 10.30 BREAK/EXHIBITION
10.30 - 11.15 The use of CT in the human trauma patient Lise Loft Nagel
11.25 - 12.00 The use of CT in veterinary trauma patients Martin Rapp
12.00 - 13.00 LUNCHBREAK/EXHIBITION
13.00 - 13.45 Assessment and primary care of fractures in the trauma patient
David Spreng
13.55 - 14.45 Indications and options in emergency trauma surgery David Spreng
14.45 - 15.15 BREAK/EXHIBITION
15.15 - 16.00 Abstracts
16.10 - 17.00 Fluid therapy in the trauma patient
Kate Hopper
17.10 - 18.00 General assembly EVECCS
SUNDAY
8.30 - 9.05 Acute treatment of tracheal collapse Matt Beal
9.15 - 10.15 Hematemesis, GI bleeding, obstruction and GI foreign bodies Mike Willard
10.15 - 11.00 BREAK/EXHIBITION
11.00 - 11.45 Analgesia and sedation of the trauma patient Görel Nyman
11.50 - 12.35 Transfusion medicine in the trauma patient Bo Wiinberg
12.45 - 14.00 Case studies in trauma and discussion with the audience Matt Beal, Kate Hopper, David Spreng and Harold Davis
14.00 Closing of the congress

 

Gold sponsors:
Royal Canin
Philips
Silver sponsors:
Boehringer Ingelheim
Agria

Bronze sponsors :
 
In cooperation with:
Blastjarnans