VIN EMRG202-0319: Blood Gas Interpretation

The lectures for this course will be presented in an audio format using a webinar platform.

Enrollment is closed.
Presenter: Guillaume Hoareau, DVM, PhD
Course Open: March 4-21, 2019
Real Time Sessions (RTS): Monday, March 11, 2019; 9:00-11:00 pm ET (USA)
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Level and Prerequisites: This intermediate course will be open to veterinarians actively interested in blood gas interpretation in the emergency and critical care setting.
VIN CE Course: Open to veterinarians. This course is approved by RACE for veterinarians. (RACE 22-35841)

Course Information:
Blood gas analysis is an invaluable tool in the emergency and critical care setting. Not only sample acquisition can prove challenging, but interpretation may sometimes intimidate some clinicians. This talk will review sample acquisition techniques and discuss a step-by-step approach to interpretation. The goal is to familiarize clinicians with a seamless interpretation technique of both arterial and venous blood gas analysis results.

Week 1 (Real Time Session March 11, 2019): Blood Gas Interpretation
Presenter: Guillaume Hoareau, DVM, PhD
Format: Audio
Objectives: Upon completion of this session, the participant should be able to
  • Understand the clinical importance of arterial and venous blood gas analysis
  • Discuss sampling techniques
  • Describe the steps of blood gas results analysis
  • Discuss specific clinical examples
Successful completion (scoring 80% or better) on the end-of-course test is required to earn a certificate of completion for the course. To learn more about the requirements for earning a CE certificate, please refer to Receiving Your CE Credit and Course Completion Certificate.

Course Materials: Course materials will be available in the course library prior to each Real Time Session.
Required Textbook(s): There is no required textbook for this course.

About the Presenter(s):
Guillaume Hoareau is a diplomate of both the American and European Colleges of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care. He graduated from the Toulouse National School of Veterinary Medicine (France). He completed a residency in emergency and critical care at the University of California- Davis and obtained a PhD in Translational Trauma and Critical Illness Research from the same institution. He is currently an Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education Post Doctoral Fellow in trauma and critical care research with the US Air Force and balances his time between research and clinical work.

Total CE Credit: 2

Tuition: Member $46 ($41 early bird special if enrolled by February 18, 2019)
Non-Member $110 ($99 early bird special if enrolled by February 18, 2019)
Prices are listed in US dollars.

*To ensure participants are ready and prepared for classes, enrollment will close on March 11, 2019 at 5 pm ET (USA) or when the maximum number of participants is reached.

*For more information on how online CE works, see the Participant Resource Center.

To Enroll:
  1. Enrollment qualifications: VIN CE courses are open to VIN member and non-member veterinarians. Veterinarians enrolling in a VSPN CE course must be a VIN member. Veterinary support staff must be a VSPN member to enroll in a VSPN CE or a VIN CE course open to VSPN member enrollment.
  2. Each enrollee must be able to receive emails from @vspn.org and @vin.com addresses. Email is our major form of communication with participants; personal emails are highly recommended rather than clinic/hospital email addresses.
  3. Each person is individually responsible for his/her own registration. To ensure that all information received is secure and correct, please do not enroll for a course on behalf of another individual.
  4. For further assistance call 800-846-0028 ext. 797 or email . Please include the course title, your full name, and contact information in your correspondence.
Enrollment is closed.

"This program (22-35841) is approved by the AAVSB RACE to offer a total of 2 CE Credits, with a maximum of 2 CE Credits being available to any individual veterinarian. This RACE approval is for the subject matter categories of: Medical, using the delivery method of Interactive-Distance: (Web-based, Teleconference or Audio-Conference). This approval is valid in jurisdictions which recognize AAVSB RACE; however, participants are responsible for ascertaining each board's CE requirements."

Course withdrawal and refund policy: A complete refund of the paid course price will be issued when your withdrawal request is received prior to the listed start date of the course. If you wish to withdraw after the start date please contact the VIN office 800-846-0028 ext. 797 to discuss eligibility for a pro-rated refund.

*For more information on VIN's upcoming CE courses, check the VIN Course Catalog.

Katherine James, DVM, PhD, DACVIM (SAIM)
VIN Education Director

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