VETT 235 — Veterinary Emergency Medicine
3 Lecture Hours, 3 Credits Prerequisites: VETT 110, VETT 201 This course is designed to acquaint the student with veterinary emergency and critical care medicine fundamentals and techniques appropriate for veterinary technicians. The student will learn to identify an emergency, assess, and monitor patient status, properly administer medications, fluids, oxygen and blood products, identify equipment required for emergency and critical care patients, and assist in those specialized procedures. The importance of evidence-based cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) techniques will be stressed.