Are you ready to elevate your anaesthesia expertise and confidently manage patients with complex comorbidities and emergency conditions?
Our advanced course is meticulously designed for professionals like you, aiming to refine your skills in tailoring anaesthetic care for high-risk patients.
The course aims to provide you with a deep dive into the nuances of administering anaesthesia to patients with comorbidities such as renal and cardiac impairments, diabetes, and those requiring urgent surgical interventions.
Engage in interactive scenarios that challenge you to develop individualized protocols, minimizing complications and enhancing patient outcomes and learn from seasoned anaesthetists with extensive experience in managing complex cases, ensuring you receive practical and up-to-date knowledge.
Prerequisite: participants are assumed to have spent at least 2 years in clinical practice and have a sound knowledge of foundational principles in anaesthesia, such as those covered in the ‘Anaesthesia & Analgesia: Fundamentals’ course.
This course is the second in our Aneasthesia and Analgesia program and looks to expand your understanding of and ability to deal with the complications associated with compromised patient. The Fundamentals course aims to develop and update your understanding of the principles underpinning anaesthetic care. Finally, the program takes a deep dive into the special considerations needed when confronted with rabbits, guinea pigs, ferrets, birds and reptiles. For more information about the other courses in the program:
Anaesthesia & Analgesia: Unusual Pets - October 2025
Anaesthesia & Analgesia: Fundamentals - February 2026
Learning Outcomes
By successfully completing this course, you will be able to do the following for patients with common comorbidities or special presentations (e.g. renal insufficiency/disease, extremes of age, endocrine disease, BOAS, cardiac insufficiency/disease) and emergency presentations (e.g. trauma, c-section, gastric dilation/torsion, urinary obstruction):
- Identify anaesthetic risk factors and potential complications
- Devise plans to minimize risks and complications
- Formulate first line approaches to managing peri-anaesthetic complications
- Formulate a plan for peri- and postoperative analgesia
Modules
- Anaesthesia for patients with common comorbidities/disorders and special conditions
- Anaesthetic considerations for patients requiring emergency anaesthesia and/or surgery
What is Distance Education?
Premium, intensive online veterinary CE
All CVE Distance Education (DE) programs are mentored by leading veterinary experts who will provide individual feedback and advice on completion of the modules. Each module may include written content, technique videos, self-reflections, quizzes and online submission of assignments.
Maximise the opportunity to expand and consolidate your learning by participating in the tutor moderated group discussion forum.
Who should enrol?
This course is suitable for qualified veterinarians.
Assumed knowledge: It is expected that participants in this course are already competent at the following learning objectives which were covered in Anaesthesia & Analgesia Course 1 - Fundamentals:
- Devise a protocol, appropriate for your practice, for systematic preanaesthetic preparation aimed at minimising risk and optimising safety of anaesthesia
- Inform on inhalation anaesthesia equipment including on use, maintenance, testing, and patient appropriate setting up
- Rationalise the importance of perianesthetic monitoring including the choice of methods of monitoring based on understanding of respective advantages, disadvantages and limitations.
- Competently and confidently manage common peri-anaesthetic complications through application of a systematic approach
- Apply sound understanding of the pharmacology of drugs commonly used for sedation/pre-anaesthetic medication, induction and maintenance of anaesthesia to justify anaesthetic drug protocols.
- Rationalise the use of analgesics for pre-emptive analgesia, multimodal analgesia, and balanced anaesthesia.
- Integrate analgesia into the anaesthetic protocols for the surgical patient.
Digital Badge
On completion of this course, participants will earn a Veterinary Anaesthesia & Analgesia micro-credential digital badge. Digital badges are verified credentials that allow earners to easily communicate their skills and qualifications online. A digital badge can be used in email signatures, websites and social media platforms and contains verified metadata describing the qualification and the process required to earn it. Please note: this is not a higher education award and not a qualification recognised under the Australian Qualifications Framework. Further information can be found in the micro-credential terms and conditions.
| Course fees |
Member* Super
Early Bird |
Member*
Early Bird |
Member* Full Rate |
Non-member Rate |
| Anaesthesia & Analgesia |
$2,504 |
$2,574 |
$2,643 |
$2,783 |
*Members include: Practice, Professional, Part-time Professional, Recent Graduate members.