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Join us for this two-day course on ultrasound-guided regional anaesthesia, where two Anaesthesia Diplomates – Maja Drozdzynska and Marta Kantyka, will impart their expertise and skills to make you feel confident in providing local blocks for most commonly performed procedures in veterinary practice. This course will significantly enhance your intraoperative and postoperative pain management techniques for your patients.
- 🩺 Course is designed for veterinarians who provide anaesthesia and intraoperative pain management.
- 🧰 The basic ultrasound skills are desired.
- 📒 The subject of the training may change depending on the level of participants and their individual preferences regarding the procedures performed.
- Workshops are held on cadavers.
- Participants work in pairs.
- 🇬🇧 Lectures and workshop conducted in English 🇬🇧
Course Options
OPTION 1️⃣ – FULL COURSE
- Theoretical lectures and practical workshop
- Coffee and lunch breaks
- Printed colour materials
- Disposable gowns and caps
- Certificate of attendance
- Educational points of Polish Veterinary Chamber
OPTION 2️⃣ – THEORY ONLY
- Theoretical lectures only
- Coffee breaks
- Printed colour materials
- Certificate of attendance
- Educational points of Polish Veterinary Chamber
Course Agenda
General agenda
9:00 – 12:30 – Theoretical part (with one 30 min coffee break) – options 1️⃣ & 2️⃣
12:30 – 13:30 – Lunch – option 1️⃣
13:30 – 18:30 – Practical part (with one 30 min coffee break) – option 1️⃣
Day I – Saturday
- Local anesthetics: pharmacology, doses, toxicity, diagnosis of toxicity, treatment
- Ultrasound-guided intrafascial blocks
- General rules,
- Ultrasound-guided serratus plane block (SPB)
- Ultrasound-guided-transversus abdominis plane block (TAP)
- Ultrasound-guided-Erector spinae plane block (ESP)
Day II – Sunday
- Pelvic limb blocks:
- Localization and block of the femoral and sciatic nerve
- Epidural anesthesia
- Thoracic limb blocks:
- Block RUMM (radial nerve, ulnar nerve, medial nerve, musculocutaneous nerve)
- Brachial plexus block.
Course leaders
Maja Drożdżyńska DVM, MVetMed, Dip. ECVAA
Maja has completed her veterinary medicine degree at Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences in Poland. After graduation, she worked in the Surgery Department at the same University where she developed interest and gained initial experience in Anaesthesia and Emergency Critical Care Medicine. After two years, she has decided to continue her career abroad. She completed Anaesthesia Internship at the University of Liverpool and speciality residency training program in Veterinary Anaesthesia and Pain Management (Analgesia) at the Royal Veterinary College London (RVC). She obtained a Master degree in Veterinary Sciences from the RVC in 2016 and passed her European Speciality Exam in Veterinary Anaesthesia and Analgesia in 2017. That way she became the first Polish veterinarian with the European Speciality in Anaesthesia and Analgesia. During residency, her main research interest was in the subject of effective management of acute perioperative pain by application of more advanced ultrasound-guided loco-regional techniques. During this time, together with her research colleagues, she described and developed two new ultrasound-guided blocks for dogs (Ultrasound- guided serratus plane block & subcostal approach to TAP block After completing her residency, Maja has had great pleasure to work in large and very busy private multi-disciplinary hospital (Dick White Referrals) in England for the next four years where she continued her clinical research, trained and supervised new generation of veterinary anaesthetists (residents) and further mastered her anaesthesia and teamwork skills. In 2021, Maja moved to Sydney where she is working for the largest Specialist Veterinary Hospital in Australia. Apart from the anaesthesia and acute perioperative pain management, she is operating a chronic pain clinic with the interventional procedures being part of it. She loves the ocean so in her free time you can find her diving or kitesurfing!
Marta Kantyka DVM, Dr.med.vet, Dip. ECVAA
Marta graduated in veterinary medicine in 2011 from Wrocław. Immediately following her studies, she relocated to Vienna, where she worked as an anaesthetist at the local University of Veterinary Medicine. In 2013, she embarked on a rotational and anaesthesiology internship at the University of Pennsylvania in the United States, one of the top five universities in the USA. After two years, she returned to Europe and initiated a residency in anaesthesiology and pain therapy at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine in Zurich. During her residency, she also accomplished her PhD at the same university.
Upon completing her residency in 2019, she moved to the University of Bern, Switzerland, where she currently lectures in clinical anaesthesiology. In 2021, she successfully passed the European specialisation examination. Marta’s favourite aspect of her work is the anaesthesia of critical cases and intensive perioperative therapy. Marta thoroughly enjoys lecturing and is presently commencing a five-year training programme in modern teaching methods at the University of Bern. When not at work, she spends most of her time walking her somewhat temperamental dachshund, Giacomo, or at the CrossFit gym, where she feigns competency.
** The organizer reserves the right to cancel the training, change the subject or agenda of the event.
*** If 90% of the registered participants are Polish-speaking, the organizer reserves the right to conduct the training in Polish. In this case, fees paid by non-Polish-speaking participants will be fully refunded.
