Description
When birds become injured or fall ill, they can deteriorate very rapidly. Therefore, they often require urgent, emergency veterinary care to begin to stabilise and treat them. This lecture aimed at vets and nurses, will cover the basics of first aid for birds including fluid therapy, analgesia, emergency diagnostics, anaesthesia and CPR. We will also discuss common emergencies you will see in practice, such as respiratory disease, hypocalcaemia, cloacal prolapses and egg binding.
Learning Objectives
- Learn how to stabilise the emergency avian patient
- Learn about medications used in avian emergency medicine
- Learn how to safely perform and monitor anaesthesia in birds
- Learn how to perform CPR in birds and how to humanely euthanise them
- Learn about some common avian emergencies we may see in practice and how to treat them
