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| Tour 18 |
| SeaWorld® San Antonio |
| 7:45 am - 12:45 pm Behind the Scenes Tour of SeaWorld® San Antonio – 3 credit hours
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| Don’t miss this unique opportunity to visit all major exhibits at SeaWorld® San Antonio on a day when the park is not open to the public! We will go behind the scenes to visit the zoological support areas of the park. SeaWorld® Veterinary staff will provide a presentation to attendees.
(transportation provided, shuttle bus departs from Convention Center at 7:45 am; tour is approximately 3 hours, bus returns to Convention Center at approximately 12:45 pm)
Course Fee: $70
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| Tour 19 |
| Lackland Air Force Base |
| Note: The registration fee covers the cost of transportation which is provided, shuttle buses depart from the Convention Center at 1:00 pm; tour is approximately 3 hours, buses return to Convention Center at approximately 5:00 – 5:30 pm) |
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| 1:00 pm - 5:30 pm Educational Tour of the Lackland Air Force Base Veterinary Hospital – 3 credit hours
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| This exciting tour will begin with the 341st Training Squadron, the Air Force unit that manages the DoD Dog School giving a short mission outline and demonstration of basic assessment and performance behaviors allowing time for audience questions. After an Army Veterinary Corps welcome, attendees will tour the brand new 38,000 square foot veterinary hospital – areas include medicine, digital radiology, surgery/rehabilitation areas along with the adjacent Breeding Program facility. Participants will then visit training areas to see how dogs are actually trained and the resources required; allowing time for behavior-related questions.
NOTE: All attendees must meet security requirements to participate.
(transportation provided, shuttle buses depart from the Convention Center at 1:00 pm; tour is approximately 3 hours, buses return to Convention Center at approximately 5:00 – 5:30 pm)
Course Fee: $65
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| Note: NOTE: All attendees must meet security requirements to participate. Valid photo ID will be required to board the shuttle bus. The registration fee charged for the tour covers the cost of transportation. Lackland AFB receives no proceeds from this event. |
| Lab 01 |
| Brian S. Beale, DVM, and Donald A. Hulse, DVM
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| 8:00 am - 12:10 pm Advanced Techniques for Extracapsular Cruciate Ligament Injury
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| Tears of the cranial cruciate ligament are the most common orthopedic injury seen in dogs and cats. Extracapsular repair techniques are an effective method of stabilizing the cruciate-deficient stifle. This comprehensive course will discuss the theory of isometric placement of a prosthetic cranial cruciate ligament using two new implant systems. The advantages of these techniques are increased strength of repair, ease of application, and affordability. The participants will also learn how to correctly approach the stifle, examine the menisci, perform a partial meniscectomy and a meniscal release.
Course Fee: $350
Location: Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center
Audience: DVMs
Limited to 32 participants
Sponsored by Pfizer Animal Health and Innovative Animal Products
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| Lab 02 |
| Walter F. Burghardt Jr., DVM
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| 8:00 am - 12:10 pm Behavior: Military Working Dog Demonstration Lab
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| This session will provide participants with a hands-on learning experience in some of the key tools and techniques involved in the assessment, training, and management of dogs, with emphasis on social and environmental reactivity, aptitude and performance of olfactory detection tasks, simple obedience training, and behavioral management. Participants will have the opportunity to observe and practice some elements of working temperament and aptitude tests and discuss the predictive value of these assessments, practice skills in getting and maintaining attention using simple tools and rewards, and fitting and successfully using a Gentle Leader head collar and discussing its role in canine management. We will also have the opportunity to do a hands-on evaluation of a few reward-based high-tech training tools and discuss where these technologies can be best utilized.
Course Fee: $75
Location: Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center
Audience: DVMs
Limited to 20 participants
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| Lab 03 |
| Ashley B. Saunders, DVM
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| 1:30 pm - 5:50 pm Interactive Electrocardiogram and Thoracic Radiograph Interpretation
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| Join us for an in-depth, interactive session on the interpretation of electrocardiograms (ECGs) and thoracic radiographs to help you successfully evaluate your cardiac patients. In the first half of the session, attendees will read and interpret ECGs, focusing on waveforms, rhythm analysis, assessing preoperative risk and recognizing arrhythmias that require urgent therapy. In the second half of the session, attendees will evaluate and discuss thoracic radiographs from cardiac patients, with a focus on heart size, vasculature and pulmonary patterns in clinical patients.
The Cardiology lecture presented on Friday morning is a prerequisite for this lab.
Course Fee: $300
Location: Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center
Audience: DVMs
Limited to 20 participants
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| Lab 04 |
| Hank Swartz, DVM
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| 1:30 pm - 5:50 pm Interactive Wellness Program Implementation Lab
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| Are you ready to grow your practice? Increase and sustain wellness compliance? Reduce dependence on vaccinations?
Attend an interactive workshop designed to help you create and implement your optimal wellness program:
How WELL is your WELLNESS Program?
Exam: We will teach you how to review your own practice data. Determine how well is your senior program? Your dental compliance program? Adult wellness testing program?
* Diagnosis: Complete a wellness program report card specific to your practice.
* Treatment: Receive hands-on expert direction in determining client compliance, recommendations for custom standards and protocols and client and staff training materials.
* After Care: Realistic program goals and mechanisms for tracking results, motivating staff and ensuring success will be presented. At the conclusion of this workshop, participants will have a complete, customized and proven successful wellness program ready for immediate implementation in their practice.
Choose your course:
* Senior Care
* Dental Compliance
* Adult Wellness Testing
Course Fee: $165
Location: Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center
Audience: DVMs
Limited to 20 participants
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| Lab 05 |
| Brian A. Poteet, DVM and William Hornof, DVM
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| 8:00 am - 12:10 pm Digital Radiography and Image Processing
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| During this interactive lab participants will become familiar with and practice the tools of digital radiography. Image processing and manipulation will be emphasized. Learn the difference between image processing and manipulation, and how these techniques can aid in the correct diagnosis. Case examples will be presented.
Course Fee: $300
Location: Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center
Audience: DVMs
Limited to 24 participants
Sponsored by Eklin Medical Systems, Inc.
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| Lab 06 |
| Benjamin D. Young, DVM and John Griffin, DVM
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| 8:00 am - 12:10 pm Small Animal Abdominal Ultrasound: Organ System Evaluation
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| Participants will have the opportunity to practice and advance their ultrasonography skills on dogs. Scanning technique will be demonstrated and guided by a radiologist, and technique for examining all major abdominal organ systems will be reviewed.
Course Fee: $275
Location: Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center
Audience: DVMs
Limited to 24 participants
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| Lab 07 |
| Steve C. Haskins, DVM, Steven L. Marks, BVSc, and Richard D. Scroggin Jr., DVM
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| 1:30 pm - 5:50 pm Critical Care Techniques
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| Participants in this hands-on lab will gain expertise in a number of critical care procedures including epidurals, female urinary catheterization, venous cutdown procedure, over-the-wire catheter insertion, thoracic drain placement, tracheostomy, bone marrow catheter placement, nasal catheterization for oxygen insufflation, esophagostomy tube placement, blind gastrotomy tube placement, bone marrow biopsy and thoracocentesis.
Course Fee: $350
Location: Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center
Audience: DVMs
Limited to 12 participants
Sponsored by Pfizer Animal Health
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| DVM Luncheon 21 |
| Claudia L. Barton, DVM |
| 12:20 pm - 1:20 pm Lunch with Claudia L. Barton, DVM: The Complicated Lymphoma Patient |
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| Note: Cost: $25 (per lunch)
Location: Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center
Limited to 20 participants each
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| DVM Luncheon 22 |
| Dennis E. Brooks, DVM |
| 12:20 pm - 1:20 pm Lunch with Dennis E. Brooks, DVM: Ophthalmology Is Not Rocket Science |
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| Note: Cost: $25 (per lunch)
Location: Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center
Limited to 20 participants each
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| DVM Luncheon 23 |
| Karyn Gavzer, CVPM |
| 12:20 pm - 1:20 pm Lunch with Karyn Gavzer, CVPM: Practice Survival: Ideas for a Turbulent Economy |
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| Note: Cost: $25 (per lunch)
Location: Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center
Limited to 20 participants each
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| DVM Luncheon 24 |
| Cheryl S. Hedlund, DVM |
| 12:20 pm - 1:20 pm Lunch with Cheryl S. Hedlund, DVM: Difficult Wounds |
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| Note: Cost: $25 (per lunch)
Location: Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center
Limited to 20 participants each
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| DVM Luncheon 25 |
| Richard B. Ford, DVM |
| 12:20 pm - 1:20 pm Lunch with Richard B. Ford, DVM: Canine Influenza |
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| Note: Cost: $25 (per lunch)
Location: Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center
Limited to 20 participants each
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| RVT, CVA Workshop 20 |
| Instructors: Lori Atkins, LVT, VTS; Susan M. Culp, DVM, former Disaster
Preparedness Chair, TVMA;
Dana Heath, RVT, VTS; Elaine Acker, CEO, Pets America |
| 1:30 pm - 5:30 pm Pet First Aid Instructor Development Workshop Offered at Southwest
Veterinary Symposium |
| Advance preparation is the key to safety and survival in any emergency, yet
few educational opportunities exist to help pet owners learn valuable pet
first aid skills or create a personal disaster plan. In filling this
important niche, Pets America has surveyed more than 400 veterinarians from
the International Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care Society and the
Texas Veterinary Medical Association to create a new pet first aid
curriculum and guide.
Pets America is partnering with the Emergency Care and Safety Institute to
deliver workshops nationwide. Enthusiastic, experienced instructors are
needed to teach classes for pet owners. Earn extra income while teaching pet
owners the skills veterinarians recommend!
Who Should Attend: Pets America is especially interested in working with
RVTs, CVAs and other veterinary professionals who have animal handling
experience and/or disaster response training.
PARTICIPANTS MUST PRE-REGISTER and pre-pay for this course. You may register
online at www.swvs.org. Attendees may register for the Workshop only or for
SWVS and the Workshop. Registrations may be canceled if written notice is
provided to SWVS no later than August 14. A refund will be given, minus a
$10 administrative fee. No refunds are available after August 14. At least
eight participants are required for the Instructor Development Workshop to
"make." A full refund will be issued to registered participants in the event
the course is canceled. |
| Lab 09 |
| Patty Hug, RVT and Thomas W. Koenig, RVT
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| 8:00 am - 12:10 pm Veterinary Dental Equipment Care and Dental Radiology
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| Participants attending this hands-on interactive lab will learn and practice equipment care and sharpening of hand instruments. Proper dental radiology techniques for the dog and cat patient will be covered. Manual and digital dental x-ray will be taught. Tips for how to utilize dental radiology as a practice builder will be included. Bring your dull hand instruments to practice with!
Course Fee: $135
Location: Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center
Audience: Technicians
Limited to 20 participants
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| Lab 10 |
| Torri Collins, RVT
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| 8:00 am - 12:10 pm Block the Pain!
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| Participants will learn specific techniques to block pain pathways, such as epidurals, brachial plexus blocks, local blocks, ring blocks and dental blocks. Participants will practice techniques on cadavers.
Course Fee: $135
Location: Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center
Audience: Technicians
Limited to 15 participants
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| Lab 11 |
| Kimberly A. Baldwin, LVT
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| 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm Component Therapy Lab
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| This interactive lab will provide an overview of component therapy use. Attendees will learn how to use blood typing kits and cross-matching tools that are used in the private practice setting. Time is allotted for open discussion of criteria for donor pool, and blood banking options.
Course Fee: $135
Location: Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center
Audience: Technicians
Limited to 15 participants
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| Computer Skills Workshop 12 |
| Cheryl R. Dhein, DVM, and Zachary March, MEd
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| 10:25 am - 12:10 pm Video Editing Using Adobe Premiere Elements
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| If you want to use videos in a presentation or talk but don’t know where to begin, this class is for you. Participants will be guided through the processes
of downloading raw digital footage, editing and adding special effects, and preparing videos for distribution on CD-ROM or DVD or inclusion in a PowerPoint presentation.
Course Fee: $30
Location: Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center
Audience: Open to all SWVS registered attendees
Limited to 15 participants
Sponsored by Dell Computer Corp.
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| Computer Skills Workshop 13 |
| Cheryl R. Dhein, DVM, and Zachary March, MEd |
| 1:30 pm - 3:15 pm Finding Veterinary Information on the Internet (Don’t Just Google It!) and Your Presence on the Internet
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| INFORMATION OVERLOAD! How do you sort through the massive amount of information on the internet for that one specific piece of information? Learn how to refine web searches and how to use web databases for free access to veterinary literature and diagnostic programs. You will learn how to use the National Library of Medicine search engine, PubMed, to search the human and veterinary medical literature. We will also visit other sites, including the USDA National Agricultural Library, Toxnet and Consultant. This session will also look briefly at blogs and wikis—should you be blogging?
Course Fee: $30
Location: Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center
Audience: Open to all SWVS registered attendees
Limited to 15 participants
Sponsored by Dell Computer Corp.
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| Computer Skills Workshop 14 |
| Cheryl R. Dhein, DVM, and Zachary March, MEd
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| 4:05 pm - 5:50 pm Create a Web Page Using Microsoft Web Expression
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| No code writing is required to use this WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) web editor (although we will take a peek at the code behind the scenes). You will learn the basic skills of creating a web page, including page layout and consistency, hyperlinks, tables, images and navigation menus, by creating a website for your practice. Experience with basic word processing skills is suggested.
Course Fee: $30
Location: Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center
Audience: Open to all SWVS registered attendees
Limited to 15 participants
Sponsored by Dell Computer Corp.
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| Computer Skills Workshop 15 |
| Cheryl R. Dhein, DVM, and Zachary March, MEd
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| 8:00 am - 9:45 am Picture Editing Using Adobe Photoshop Elements
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| “A picture is worth a thousand words,” but what if the picture isn’t quite the message you want to send? Perhaps you need to crop a radiograph before using it in a presentation, or maybe you want to highlight the lesion on a cat’s eye. Learn basic skills of image editing, including resizing, rotating, cropping, changing brightness and contrast, using brushes and erasers, sharpening, and using layers. You will also learn more advanced skills, including color management; use of selection tools, filters and effects; and image optimization.
Course Fee: $30
Location: Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center
Audience: Open to all SWVS registered attendees
Limited to 15 participants
Sponsored by Dell Computer Corp.
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| Computer Skills Workshop 16 |
| Cheryl R. Dhein, DVM, and Zachary March, MEd
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| 10:25 am - 12:10 pm Introduction to Spreadsheets Using Excel 2007
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| Veterinary medicine and related activities require management and interpretation of substantial amounts of information. Spreadsheets are effective tools for this need when the basic concepts of these applications are understood. This course provides a hands-on introduction to entering, sorting, retrieving and graphing data using Microsoft Excel.
Course Fee: $30
Location: Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center
Audience: Open to all SWVS registered attendees
Limited to 15 participants
Sponsored by Dell Computer Corp.
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| Computer Skills Workshop 17 |
| Cheryl R. Dhein, DVM, and Zachary March, MEd
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| 1:30 pm - 3:15 pm Create a Presentation Using Microsoft PowerPoint 2007
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| This session is for both PowerPoint novices and experienced users. The information learned can also be applied to creation of posters and other print materials. Attendees will be guided through the basics of creating a slide presentation, including setup, insertion and manipulation of text, change in backgrounds, use of templates, use of drawing tools, and insertion and editing of images. Animation of text and objects, working with movies and sound, hyperlinking to websites or other presentations, using the on-screen drawing tools, editing the slide master and recording the presentation will be covered.
Course Fee: $30
Location: Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center
Audience: Open to all SWVS registered attendees
Limited to 15 participants
Sponsored by Dell Computer Corp.
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