Maxwell Bales | Licensed Veterinary Nurse
VEG ER for Pets, USA
Maxwell is a licensed veterinary technician with seven years of experience in emergency medicine with a particular passion for anesthesia, analgesia, patient advocacy, and clinical education. A top graduate of Collin College’s Veterinary Technology program, Maxwell served as President of the Veterinary Technician Student Organization and is currently pursuing his VTS in Anesthesia and Analgesia and becoming a Certified Veterinary Pain Practitioner. A lifelong feline enthusiast and passionate patient advocate, Maxwell is dedicated to helping veterinary technicians practice to the full extent of their training and expertise. Through education, he hopes to bridge the gap between what veterinary technicians can do and how they are utilized in practice—ultimately improving patient care and empowering the veterinary team.
Appearances:
Day 1 @ 12:30
Analgesia 101: Back to the Basics
Veterinary technicians and assistants are an essential role in recognizing pain, implementing analgesia protocols with veterinarians, monitoring patients in recovery and within the ICU, and educating pet parents. This lecture focuses on the basics of the physiology of pain and the principles of analgesic techniques. Attendees will review the pain pathway, how to recognize pain in companion animals, and multimodal analgesia; including opioids, NSAIDs, local anesthesia, and adjunctive medications.
Learning Objectives
1. Understand the basics of pain physiology, the inflammatory response, and the pain pathway of the central nervous system.
2. Understand the goal of analgesia, benefits, and protocols; including opioids, NSAIDs, local anesthetics.
3. Understand the mechanism of action, indications, contraindications, and adverse reactions of analgesic drugs.
4. Recognize clinical signs of pain for companion animals
5. Recognize and adequately score the level of pain using pain scales for companion animals
Day 1 @ 16:00
No Pain, More Gain: Local/Regional Blocks in the ER
Analgesic techniques have come a long way within the last two decades, from understanding and recognizing pain, implementing more multimodal protocols, to practices utilizing more opioid-free techniques. In emergency medicine, there’s always a quick pace; from triage to stabilization, to hospitalizing within the ICU. This lecture focuses on the varied techniques of local/regional anesthesia in the emergency room.
Attendees will review the pain pathway, the use of local anesthetic drugs and adjunctive medications.
Learning Objectives
1. Understand the basics of pain physiology and the pain pathway of the central nervous system. 2. Understand the goal of analgesia, benefits, and protocols of local anesthetics.
3. Understand the mechanism of action, indications, contraindications, and adverse reactions of local anesthetics.
4. Recognize the indications, complications and landmarks of many local/regional blocks.
5. Familiarize and recognize the use of specific local/regional blocks that can be used within a general, urgent, or emergency practice.
Day 2 @ 13:30
What’s that Alarm? Anesthesia Monitoring 101
When it comes to monitoring the anesthetized patient, veterinary technicians are the frontline members of the team. Veterinary Technicians understand the pharmacologic agents that are given pre-operatively, communicate with the veterinarian, troubleshoot complications, advocate for the patient, and safely recover them in ICU.
This lecture focuses on anesthetic monitoring fundamentals, from understanding the multiparameter monitor to managing patients under anesthesia. Attendees will review the definition and what anesthesia entails, how to assign a patient’s ASA status, and understand the levels and stages of consciousness between an awake and moribund patient.
This lecture is part one of two sessions, where we dive deep into a few of the vitals we monitor, such as temperature, pulse oximetry, and capnography. We will cover what these monitoring devices tell us about our anesthetized patient, go through common complications, and treatment of complications.
Learning Objectives
1. Understand the fundamentals of anesthesia, the differences of a patient’s ASA status, and the stages of consciousness to an anesthetic plane.
2. Understand and recognize monitoring trends upon the multiparameter monitor.
3. Recognize the normal and abnormal monitoring parameters such as temperature, pulse oximetry, and capnography.
4. Familiarize and recognize common complications and troubleshooting with monitoring parameters.
5. Understand the range of complications and common treatments for monitoring parameters such as temperature, pulse oximetry, and capnography.
Day 2 @ 14:00
What’s that Alarm? Anesthesia Monitoring 102
When it comes to monitoring the anesthetized patient, veterinary technicians are the frontline members of the team. Veterinary Technicians understand the pharmacologic agents that are given pre-operatively, communicate with the veterinarian, troubleshoot complications, advocate for the patient, and safely recover them in ICU. This lecture focuses on anesthetic monitoring fundamentals, from understanding the multiparameter monitor to managing patients under anesthesia.
Attendees will review the definition and what anesthesia entails, how to assign a patient’s ASA status, and understand the levels and stages of consciousness between an awake and moribund patient. This lecture is part two of two sessions, where we dive deep into a few of the vitals we monitor, such as heart rate, ECGs, and blood pressure. We will cover what these monitoring devices tell us about our anesthetized patient, go through common complications, and treatment of complications.
Learning Objectives
1. Understand the fundamentals of anesthesia, the differences of a patient’s ASA status, and the stages of consciousness to an anesthetic plane.
2. Understand and recognize monitoring trends upon the multiparameter monitor.
3. Recognize the normal and abnormal monitoring parameters such as heart rate, ECGs, and blood pressure.
4. Familiarize and recognize common complications and troubleshooting with monitoring parameters.
5. Understand the range of complications and common treatments for monitoring parameters such as heart rate, ECGs, and blood pressure.
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