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MULTI-TRACK/CROSS SPECIES FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26 ______________________________________ VETERINARY OPIOIDS: TEXAS BOARD RULES & FEDERAL LAWS CONCERNING CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES Amy Savarino, Pharm D.; Carly Patterson, DVM, DACVIM (SAIM) 8:00 AM - 9:50 AM | Room 105 The learning objectives for this course are: Review Texas and federal regulations Develop a basic understanding of opioid abuse. Develop a basic understanding of controlled substance diversion. Develop a basic knowledge and understanding of inventory and security ***This course is approved by TBVME to comply with the 2-hour opioid CE requirement.*** MODULE 5: VESICULAR DISEASES Ami Mehta Filip, DVM 10:30 AM - 11:20 AM | Room 105 The first part of this module addresses the importance of foot-and-mouth disease, vesicular stomatitis, swine vesicular disease, vesicular exanthema of swine, and Senecavirus A in the United States. Clinical signs associated with vesicular diseases and specific biosecurity measures are included. The second part of this module takes the veterinarian through an interactive scenario investigating a possible vesicular disease outbreak on a swine farm. Veterinarians learn the process of reporting a possible vesicular disease case and the chain of events that occur in a foreign animal disease investigation. MODULE 9: INTERSTATE AND INTERNATIONAL HEALTH CERTIFICATES FOR CATEGORY I ANIMALS Alexandra Apgar-Arpin, DVM, MPH 11:30 AM - 12:20 PM | Room 105 This module highlights the importance of health certificates for traveling pets and discusses the potential for disease spread associated with travel. The planning steps and regulation resources for properly completing a companion animal health certificate are presented through a variety of interactive animations and a scenario. Since errors can lead to travel delays or entry refusals, mistakes commonly made when completing health certificates are highlighted to help minimize these problems in real-life situations. MODULE 10: PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT FOR VETERINARIANS Alexandra Apgar-Arpin, DVM, MPH 2:00 PM - 2:50 PM | Room 105 This module introduces the various items of personal protective equipment (PPE) from basic items such as gloves and coveralls, to expanded precautions like respirators and chemical resistant outerwear. Situations veterinarians might encounter in practice are presented and they will need to select the best PPE to prevent disease or chemical exposure. Finally, this module discusses the PPE used in response to an animal health emergency. MODULE 18: AVIAN INFLUENZA (AI) AND NEWCASTLE DISEASE (ND) Melissa Cleavinger, DVM 3:00 PM - 3:50 PM | Room 105 This module helps veterinarians understand the economic and public health impact of an exotic avian disease outbreak and to better recognize the clinical signs associated with AI and ND. Details relating to collecting and submitting samples for the surveillance as well as reporting positive results for AI or ND are addressed. Understanding the investigative and clean-up process and implementing biosecurity measures specific for each disease are key roles of poultry veterinarians are emphasized
YIN AND YANG QIAO (HEEL) MAI Delores Craig, DVM, CVA, CVCH, FAAVA 10:30 AM - 11:20 AM | Room 108 The Eight Extraordinary Channels are often overlooked, under-recognized, and underutilized in veterinary medicine. We will discuss the specific characteristics, pathways over the body, significant diagnostic areas, and clinical indications for the Yin and Yang Qiao (Heel) Mai. Attendees should have basic knowledge of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). YIN AND YANG WEI (LINK) MAI Delores Craig, DVM, CVA, CVCH, FAAVA 11:30 AM - 12:20 PM | Room 108 The Eight Extraordinary Channels are often overlooked, under-recognized, and underutilized in veterinary medicine. We will discuss the specific characteristics, pathways throughout the body, significant diagnostic areas, and clinical indications for the Yin and Yang Wei (Link) Mai. Attendees should have basic knowledge of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). AN INTEGRATIVE APPROACH TO MANAGING ANXIETY: DEALING WITH THE HOT MESS OF STRESS Kären Marsden, BA, DVM 2:00 PM - 2:50 PM | Room 108 This lecture presents many successfully treated cases anxious animals, including pandemic puppies, dogs with thunderstorm phobia, and dogs with anticipatory dread of the veterinary clinic. The multi-modal approach applied to these animals will illustrate what supplements and herbs are synergistic and can empower or even replace pharmaceutical approaches to stress. Frequently referred to will be the class of compounds known as Adaptogens, and their impact on the brain via their regulation of adrenal activity. AN INTEGRATIVE APPROACH TO HEART DISEASE Kären Marsden, BA, DVM 3:00 PM - 3:50 PM | Room 108 Congestive heart failure and dilated cardiomyopathy are common challenges facing small animal veterinarians. This lecture explores a multi-modal approach to these conditions, illustrating how herbs, acupuncture, drugs and diet can all be integrated effectively to get superior case outcomes, even to the point of being able to reduce or replace conventional pharmaceutical treatment. Many cases are provided to illustrate the approach. AN INTEGRATIVE APPROACH TO ALOPECIA: YOU CAN STOP PULLING YOUR HAIR OUT OVER IT Kären Marsden, BA, DVM 4:30 PM - 5:20 PM | Room 108 Alopecia X and myositis can be gratifying cases to treat, even for the individual new to holistic medicine. Chinese medicine frequently diagnoses affected animals as having Blood deficiency, which is a relatively easy condition to understand and treat. We will delve into what the diagnosis means and why it applies to myositis and alopecia, using successfully treated cases in English Bulldogs and Pomeranians. The cases are multi-modal and illustrate how to integrate conventional and holistic treatment options such as diet, herbs, melatonin and acupuncture successfully, so the attendee can likewise go on to experience immediate success with these conditions in their own practices. SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 29 ______________________________________ AN INTEGRATIVE APPROACH TO ALLERGIC DERMATITIS: CURING THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH Kären Marsden, BA, DVM; Steve Marsden, DVM, ND, MSOM 8:00 AM - 8:50 AM | Room 108 The immune system is complicated but our drugs for treating it are not. We rely almost exclusively on immune suppression as a treatment strategy,
even as ongoing research identifies a myriad of other mechanisms that could serve as targets for intervention. Traditional holistic medicine disciplines, on the other hand, do target some of these mechanisms, even though the words ‘immune system’ do not appear in their paradigms. This lecture will review three Chinese medical diagnoses and their associated treatments that can bring veterinarians closer to consistently resolving allergic dermatitis in their own practice. Case examples are provided. THE GREAT WALL: CHINESE MEDICINE TACKLES LEAKY GUT Kären Marsden, BA, DVM; Steve Marsden, DVM, ND, MSOM 9:00 AM - 9:50 AM | Room 108 Much is made of the role of leaky gut in allowing the microbiome to trigger immune mediated disease, but how does one plug those leaks? This lecture will identify the four main strategies for addressing leaky gut, and how to tell which to employ in a given patient. The exact means of implementing each strategy will be discussed, including the deployment of herbs, acupuncture and diet. The interaction of the gut wall integrity with the microbiome will also be discussed. WHAT'S GOING ON WITH CUSHING'S IN DOGS? Kären Marsden, BA, DVM; Steve Marsden, DVM, ND, MSOM 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM | Room 108 Hyperadrenocorticism (pituitary dependent hyperadrenocorticism, PDH, Cushing's disease) arises from benign functional tumors of the pituitary gland that result in hypersecretion of cortisol. The clinical presentation of PDH is highly similar between dogs and humans, but the incidence in dogs is astronomically higher. The rate of diagnosis of pituitary tumors in dogs is so high that it amounts to the incidence of half of all other cancers combined. Can this really be the case, or is the condition being over-diagnosed? And if it’s not a pituitary tumor affecting these dogs, what is it? This lecture illustrates a simple, safe and inexpensive treatment approach to dogs diagnosed with PDH, allowing most of them to be rapidly cured of the condition without the use of any pharmaceuticals. The evidence base for why the approach works will be explored, answering in the process the question of what’s really going on with Cushing’s in dogs? HOW TO HEAL CRUCIATE TEARS WITHOUT SURGERY Kären Marsden, BA, DVM; Steve Marsden, DVM, ND, MSOM 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM | Room 108 Veterinarians are often taught that even partially torn cruciate ligaments cannot be healed due to a poor blood supply, and that dogs must be referred for surgery. There are no treatments proffered for the ligament on the opposite leg, which is generally expected to likewise rupture within a year or two. Managing cruciate tears thus becomes an expensive proposition, creating hard choices for financially challenged owners, or those whose dogs cannot tolerate anesthesia. This case-based lecture presents an alternate view of cruciate tears, where they can be consistently healed, with very few needing any surgery. The secret to their successful management is, indeed, the improvement of circulation, but there are as yet no pharmaceuticals having the needed impact. Instead, it is herbal medicine, diet change and physical therapies that produced these out-sized outcomes. Come learn why cruciate dogs not receiving surgery are not doomed to arthritis, and how you can heal not just the affected leg but prevent rupture on the opposite side, for a fraction of the cost of surgery.
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