Course description:
Disease or injury of the hip joint is common in both dogs and cats. Legg-Perthes, slipped capital femoral epiphysis (often a delayed diagnosis in cats), canine hip dysplasia (laxity-stage and osteoarthritis-stage), traumatic luxation … the list goes on! Some of those may warrant referral to specialist surgeon, but others may not … or referral may not always be feasible. This blended (online + hands-on) CE training is just what you need!
In this course you will learn to perform:
- Open hip reduction & stabilization
- Conventional FHO
- Ventral FHO
You’ll begin by enjoying informative and practical online lectures that will prepare you for your onsite hands-on training on plastic bone models and cadavers. Our friendly and engaged instructors will guide you every step of the way and provide practical tips as you work with modern instrumentation and implant designs that will make your surgical treatments simpler than ever before!
You’ll return to your practice ready to perform these practical surgical techniques when referral to a specialist isn’t needed or simply isn’t an option.
Learning Objectives: Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:
- Describe the stabilizers of the normal canine & feline hip joint
- Describe the stabilizing structures that are disrupted with traumatic hip luxation and surgical techniques that may be used to reconstruct / replace those structures
- Perform usual ER management of traumatic hip luxation
- Perform either open hip reduction & stabilization or FHO as indicated for traumatic hip luxation.
- Describe postoperative care and rehabilitation protocols for each for the above surgical procedures
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