Updates on Common Toxicology Topics
This lecture will offer guidance on current topics in toxicology, including a focus on advances in understanding grape and raisin toxicosis in dogs, the emergency of different mushroom types in “magic mushroom” products, decontamination considerations with activated charcoal and chocolate, and considerations with fluid diuresis recommendations and intravenous lipid therapies. Up to date information about these topics will be discussed and applications for treatment of toxin ingestions will be reviewed.
Jennifer Hopkins
Consulting Veterinarian, ASPCA Animal Poison Control Center
Time: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Toxicology: Rodenticides
This one hour lecture will explore rodenticide toxicity in small animal veterinary medicine. Rodenticide exposure is a Top-3 call annually for the ASPCA Animal Poison Control Center, and a very common presentation to the veterinary hospital. We’ll discuss the three major types that are available on the market, decontamination, toxic doses and LD50’s, treatment, and nursing care, and we’ll also look at other “less toxic” rodenticides. We’ll discuss how to tell these rodenticides apart to make sure the correct one is being treated for, and what to do when we can’t identify the correct one. Lastly, we’ll discuss relay exposure-the occurrence of a pet eating wildlife or a carcass that may have eaten rodenticide.
Jeff Backus
CVT, RVT, VTS(ECC)
Time: 1:10 pm - 2:10 pm
The Touch of Triage: Hypoxia and Shock
How to quickly and accurately assess emergency patients and treat for the things that will kill them the quickest – hypoxia and shock. Then moving on to how triage doesn’t just end in the waiting room, or ER, but even after a patient is hospitalized, how every time you enter their cage, you are essentially triaging them again and again.
Karen M. Roach
RVT, VTS (ECC)
Time: 2:20 pm - 3:20 pm
VetCE Virtual: Critical Interventions: Focus on Emergency Care and Toxicology
March 8, 2025 @ 12 pm - 3:30 pm ET
Speakers
Jennifer Hopkins
DVM, DABT
Dr. Jennifer Hopkins is a veterinary toxicologist and has been a consulting veterinarian at the ASPCA Animal Poison Control Center since January 2021, and has also served as a supervisor on the hotline and currently as the Associate Director of Training. Prior to joining the ASPCA, she worked in food animal welfare and regulation with the State of Iowa Department of Agriculture, and was in clinical practice in Chicago, IL. She obtained her veterinary degree from Cornell University. She is passionate about helping poisoned pets and education of her colleagues in up to date treatment practices.
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.
Karen M. Roach
RVT, VTS (ECC)
Karen is originally from the East Coast of Canada. She graduated from the Nova Scotia Agricultural College’s Animal Health Technology program in 1994. In 1997, after working for several years in general practice, she accepted a position with the newly opened Metro Animal Emergency Clinic in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the first after hours veterinary emergency hospital to open in Atlantic Canada.
In 2000, she completed a one-year Veterinary Technician Internship at The Animal Medical Center in New York City. It was here that a keen interest in anesthesia, and emergency and critical care medicine began. After completing the internship, she returned to Halifax, Nova Scotia, and the Metro Animal Emergency Clinic, and eventually began working towards becoming a Veterinary Technician Specialist in Emergency/Critical Care. She completed this designation in 2013, and in June 2014, left her native Canada and made the move to New Jersey. After 4 years at NorthStar Vets, she decided to make a change in her career and joined the Training Department at Mount Laurel Animal Hospital in September 2018.
Why Attend?
The VetCE Virtual event series of micro-conferences is designed to deliver multiple approved RACE and/or CVPM CE credits in a concise, half-day virtual format with three consecutive one-hour presentations. 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. If you’ve already registered and happen to miss the live event, no worries, you’ll be given access to the OnDemand courses once they become available (typically about three weeks after the live event) 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. Anyone who registers for a VetCE Virtual event but is unable to attend the live sessions will get free access to the VetCE OnDemand courses we create from the recordings on VetMedTeam so you can still get CE credits!
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