CVMA Online Seminars are convenient interactive presentations offering CEUs held in real-time. This learning platform allows you to participate from anywhere with internet access—from your practice, your home, or anywhere you have an internet connection. Attending is as easy as a few mouse clicks. You will only need internet access and either computer audio, a headset, or a telephone.
This seminar is open to veterinarians, veterinary technicians, veterinary hospital staff, and veterinary students only.
Thursday, October 24, 2024 | 12:30 PM–2:00 PM (PST) (1.5 CEUs)
Registration closes October 22, 2024.
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 | 5:30 PM–7:00 PM (PST) (1.5 CEUs)
Registration closes October 25, 2024.
Understanding Perfusion Parameters for the Veterinary Technician
This course will outline perfusion, help registered veterinary technicians understand and interpret patient vitals, and explain utilization of those vitals in conjunction with assessing patient vitals. RVTs will understand how temperature, heart rate, respiration, and blood pressure are representations of the patient’s cardiac output and oxygenation status. We will also cover how to utilize this information to assess for shock and prevent early compensated shock patients, who may present with vague signs, from going into decompensated shock.
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This course qualifies for 1.5 CEU.
Mandy Helton is an RVT and Veterinary Technician Specialist (VTS) in emergency and critical care who works at a specialty practice in Woodland Hills, California, where she is the emergency and critical care veterinary technician trainer. Mandy earned her VTS in 2017 and has been in veterinary medicine since 2009. She was in the U.S. Navy prior to veterinary medicine. Mandy enjoys teaching, and has a passion for critical care cases such as distributive shock cases, polytraumas, cardio-respiratory cases, and neonatal and pediatric cases.