Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation in General Practice
This session will review the current guidelines for cardiopulmonary resuscitation in dogs and cats, including basic life support, monitoring, and advanced life support. New literature on CPR in human and veterinary medicine will also be discussed.
Jake Wolf
DVM, DACVECC
Time: 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Sepsis in the Trenches: What Every Practitioner Should Know
Sepsis can progress rapidly, making early recognition and intervention critical. This practical session will help general practitioners identify sepsis, assess perfusion, and prioritize initial stabilization. We will review fluid resuscitation, early vasopressor therapy, antimicrobial use, source control, and practical considerations for determining when referral to a critical care facility is warranted.
Adesola Odunayo
DVM, MS, DACVECC
Time: 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Your Pet Ate What?
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Jeff Backus
CVT, RVT, VTS(ECC)
Time: 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
VetCE Virtual: When Every Second Counts: Veterinary Emergency Medicine
Dec 14Dec 21Dec 28 8 pm - 9 pm ET
Agenda
Speakers

Jake Wolf
DVM, DACVECC
Jake Wolf, DVM, DACVECC is a criticalist and clinical assistant professor at the University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine. He completed his bachelor of arts in religion at the George Washington University and received his DVM from Cornell University. He completed his rotating internship and small animal emergency and critical care residency at the University of Pennsylvania. He currently serves as co-service chief of the emergency and critical care service at the University of Florida. His research interests include CPR, cycad intoxication, education, and biomarkers in sepsis.

Adesola Odunayo
DVM, MS, DACVECC
Adesola Odunayo, DVM, MS, DACVECC, is a Clinical Professor and the Michael Schaer Endowed Professor of Emergency and Critical Care at the University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine. She is a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care and has more than 15 years of experience as an academic criticalist and clinician educator.
Dr. Odunayo’s academic work focuses on emergency and critical care, with particular interests in fluid therapy, transfusion medicine, gastrointestinal therapeutics and vascular access. She has authored more than 70 peer-reviewed publications and has contributed to national clinical guidelines and consensus statements, including the AAHA Fluid Therapy Guidelines and the Association of Veterinary Hematology and Transfusion Medicine consensus statements on transfusion reactions..
Dr. Odunayo teaches veterinary students, interns, and emergency and critical care residents and has received multiple teaching awards from the University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine. She is also actively involved in professional leadership, including serving as Chair of the International Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care Symposium Planning Committee and in leadership roles within the American College of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care.

Jeff Backus
CVT, RVT, VTS(ECC)
Jeff started as a veterinary assistant in general practice in 1995 and began working in ECC in 2004. He became an RVT in 2009 and VTS(ECC) in 2013. Jeff also taught veterinary technician education for 7 years. He has been on the Board of Directors for the California RVT Association for 10 years, serving as President position from 2020-2022, and is now past President. After 4 years in academia at Tufts University, he relocated back to Southern California with his wife and began working for the ASPCA Animal Poison Control Center. He is also a frequent lecturer and speaker with a focus on toxicology. He co-founded the Vet Tech Café podcast with Dave Cowan in 2019, talking about issues that face the veterinary technician profession with leaders in the field, and all of the amazing opportunities of the veterinary technician profession. He currently lives in Southern California with his wife and toddler daughter, Daphne, and two wild kitties.
Why Attend?
The VetCE Virtual event series of micro-conferences is designed to deliver multiple approved RACE and/or CVPM CE credits, taking place on the last three Mondays of every month (one hour each from 8 to 9 pm EST). The series not only provides you with the opportunity to benefit from educational sessions presented by expert speakers but also offers an easy way to learn and earn credits from the comfort of your home or office!
VetCE Virtual events cover a wide range of topics, from detailed medical discussions to practice management and other non-medical subjects relevant to everyday situations encountered by veterinary professionals. Recordings of the sessions will be accessible for viewing for 2 weeks following each event, providing participants with a valuable reference. Please be advised that we can not issue CE certificates for only viewing the session recordings, you must be logged in live for all 3, one hour sessions.
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