Hello Dr. Jennifer, I watched your video on TH-cam, and it was very helpful! I wanted to ask if you could recommend any practical resources where I can learn all the fundamentals of advanced veterinary care and surgery techniques. Ideally, it would be great if they’re available for free
Unfortunately most of the resources I would recommend are books. Silverstein Hoopers ECC book is a must have, and Lumb and Jones anesthesia book, as far as surgical techniques that is a bit out of my realm. For background pathophysiology the website deranged physiology is excellent.
That’s a great question. I assume you mean invasive arterial blood pressure via an arterial catheter. I like invasive blood pressure (IBP) monitoring in cases where there is 1) known hypotension, 2) risk for severe, sudden hypotension (risk of life threatening blood loss), and 3) cases where I may need ABG monitoring. In human medicine they have actually done studies that show that IBP doesn’t improve outcome, but does decrease the amount of vasopressors used. So, in those cases we will try for an arterial catheter, but we don’t delay the surgery and continue attempts if we can’t get it. The one exception are known or suspected pheochromocytoma removals because we know there is a high risk for massive blood pressure swings.
Please keep making videos! These are great references as a teacher :)
Thank you! More to come soon (maybe this week)!
Can you do a video on fluid therapy?
omg yes please make a video on how to interpret capnograph!
Writing it up now!
Hello Dr. Jennifer, I watched your video on TH-cam, and it was very helpful! I wanted to ask if you could recommend any practical resources where I can learn all the fundamentals of advanced veterinary care and surgery techniques. Ideally, it would be great if they’re available for free
Unfortunately most of the resources I would recommend are books. Silverstein Hoopers ECC book is a must have, and Lumb and Jones anesthesia book, as far as surgical techniques that is a bit out of my realm. For background pathophysiology the website deranged physiology is excellent.
Hey Jennifer, thank you for making this. How often should we have arterial BP monitoring while on the ventilator?
That’s a great question. I assume you mean invasive arterial blood pressure via an arterial catheter. I like invasive blood pressure (IBP) monitoring in cases where there is 1) known hypotension, 2) risk for severe, sudden hypotension (risk of life threatening blood loss), and 3) cases where I may need ABG monitoring. In human medicine they have actually done studies that show that IBP doesn’t improve outcome, but does decrease the amount of vasopressors used. So, in those cases we will try for an arterial catheter, but we don’t delay the surgery and continue attempts if we can’t get it. The one exception are known or suspected pheochromocytoma removals because we know there is a high risk for massive blood pressure swings.