At the Canine Medicine event held on Sunday 9 November 9 2008 at the Rydges Hotel in Port Macquarie NSW, presenter Graham Swinney covered a broad range of topics using an interactive and case-based approach. Graham illustrated how to get the most out of routine clinical pathology using both routine tests and useful but less routine ones; rational approaches to fevers that have an unknown cause in patients including tests for common and less common causes and how to deal with anaemia, regenerative and non-regenerative.
Chapters include-
- Maximising the use of your clinical pathology laboratory (Appropriate sample collection
- Test selection/interpretation/in-house vs send-out and Interpretation of test results in light of the patient)
- The fever of unknown origin patient - a how-to guide (Definitions, Hyperthermia, Mechanism of fever, Aetiology of true fever in dogs,
- Approach to a fever patient and Fever case studies)
- Anaemia (The approach to an anaemic patient, Causes of anaemia and Anaemia case studies)