AVSTS



Association of Veterinary Soft Tissue Surgeons

Spring Scientific Meeting 1st April 2009

“What’s New and Hot?”

The AVSTS would like to thank the following sponsors for generously supporting this meeting:

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The Association of Veterinary Soft Tissue Surgeons

Hall 7, International Convention Centre, Birmingham, UK

1st April 2009

What’s new and hot?

PROGRAMME

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09:00 – 09:30 Registration/ Tea, coffee & pastries (provided) Page

09:30 – 11:00 Abstract session

• Emergency exploratory coeliotomy: retrospective Kelly Bowlt 5

study of 189 cases

• Gastrointestinal foreign bodies in dogs and cats Graham Hayes 7

• Total penile amputation and transpelvic urethrostomy Lea Liehman 8

in a Staffordshire bull terrier

• Laparoscopic intrauterine artificial inseminations in Aracelle Alves 9

bitches using fresh and frozen thawed semen

• Simultaneous bilateral caudal superficial epigastric Sam Woods 10

skin flaps in a cat

• Biomechanical evaluation of different numbers, Aiden McAlinden 11 sizes and placement configurations of ligaclips

required to secure cellophane bands

11:00 – 11:15 Tea / coffee (provided)

11:15 – 11:55 Vacuum assisted wound closure: a new tool in the Gary Ellison 12 management of troublesome wounds

11:55 – 12:05 Questions / discussion

12:05 – 12:30 AVSTS business meeting

12:30 – 13:20 Lunch in Hall 4 (provided)

13:20 – 13:40 Laparoscopy – abdominal exploration Eric Monnet 17

13:40 – 14:20 Surgical trends in the obstructive jaundiced patient. Stephen Mehler 23

14:20 – 14:40 Laparoscopy – liver. Eric Monnet 26

14:40 – 14:50 Questions/panel discussion.

14:50 – 15:40 Translumenal intervention – are there no limits? Rao Vallabhaneni

15:40 – 16:00 PSS – why use cellophane banding? Eric Monnet 28

16:00 – 16:10 Questions

16:10 – 16:25 Tea/Coffee (provided)

16:25 – 17:05 Ectopic Ureters – burning or blading? Stephen Mehler 31

17:05 – 17:25 Laparoscopy - cystoscopy. Eric Monnet 33

17:25 – 17:30 Questions / panel discussion

Times subject to change

Main Speakers

Gary W. Ellison, DVM, MS, Diplomate ACVS

Professor and Service Chief, Small Animal Surgery,

University of Florida Health Science Center, Gainesville, Florida

Ellisong@vetmed.ufl.edu

Dr. Ellison earned his DVM from the University of Illinois in 1975. He completed a small animal internship at South Shore Veterinary Associates in Weymouth Massachusetts in 1976. Following this he practiced general small animal practice in San Francisco California. He completed a residency in Small Animal Surgery and received a MS in experimental surgery from Colorado State University in 1981. He practiced as a surgical specialist in San Diego California prior to becoming a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Surgeons and joining the faculty of the University of Florida in 1983. He is author or coauthor on 70 refereed publications and PI or CoI on 25 funded grants. His areas of interest include thoracic endoscopic and gastrointestinal surgery as well as feline renal transplantation. He currently is Professor and Chief of Small Animal Surgery at the University of Florida.

Eric Monnet, DVM, PhD, Diplomate ACVS

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Department of Clinical Sciences

Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado

Eric.Monnet@ColoState.edu

Eric Monnet graduated from veterinary school in Maisons Alfort, France in 1985. He worked for four years in a Paris private practice performing small animal medicine and surgery. In 1994, Dr. Monnet completed a small animal surgery residency at Colorado State University and concurrently finished a Master of Sciences degree. In 1997, Dr. Monnet received his PhD in Clinical Sciences studying cardiac efficiency in dogs. In 2003, he became a fellow of the American Heart Association.

Dr Monnet is currently a professor in small animal surgery (soft tissue) at Colorado State University. He has authored more than 100 articles and 15 chapters in various surgical textbooks. Dr. Monnet was the founding president in 2001-2003 of the Society for Veterinary Soft Tissue Surgery. He is the editor of the textbook: “Disease Mechanisms in Small Animal Surgery” (3rd edition).

Steve J. Mehler, DVM, Diplomate ACVS

Assistant Professor of Small Animal Surgery

College of Veterinary Medicine, Michigan State University

Dr. Steve Mehler received his DVM from Michigan State University. He completed an internship in small animal medicine and surgery and a small animal soft tissue, orthopaedic and neurologic surgery residency at the University of Pennsylvania Veterinary Hospital. During his time at the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Mehler spent a considerable amount of time working with the special species service. Dr. Mehler has published in many textbooks on surgical diseases of cats and dogs as well as exotic species; including, Reptile Medicine and Surgery, Current Techniques in Small Animal Surgery, Disease Mechanisms in Small Animal Surgery, Veterinary Clinics of North America, Trauma in Dogs and Cats, and the BSAVA Manual. His research and clinical interests include minimally invasive surgery, interventional radiology, medical and surgical interventions in exotics, and surgical diseases of the extrahepatic biliary tract in dogs and cats.

Emergency Exploratory Coeliotomy: Retrospective Study of 189 cases

(2001-2008)

Kelly Bowlt¹, Caroline Southerden, Stephen Baines²

1. Department of Clinical Veterinary Studies, University of Bristol, Langford House, Langford, Bristol, North Somerset, BS40

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2.        Department of Clinical Veterinary Studies, Royal Veterinary College, Hawkshead Lane, North Mimms, Hertfordshire, AL9 7TA.

Introduction:

Emergency exploratory coeliotomy is indicated where there is an acute abdominal disease process that requires surgery to provide a diagnosis, treatment and/or prognosis. 

Materials and methods:

The medical records of 189 patients undergoing emergency exploratory coeliotomy at the Royal Veterinary College between November 2001 and May 2008 were reviewed retrospectively.

Results:

The study comprised 152 dogs and 37 cats. Eleven animals (6.3%, 8 dogs and 3 cats) underwent surgery for diagnostic purposes; 178 animals (93.7%, 144 dogs and 34 cats) underwent surgery for therapeutic purposes.

Ultrasound was performed in 70 dogs (46.1%) and 21 cats (56.8%), contributing to a diagnosis in 68 (97.1%) and 16 (76.2%) cases. Radiographs of the thorax, abdomen or both were taken in 117 dogs (77.0%) and 22 cats (59.5%), contributing to a diagnosis in 95 (81.2%) and 16 (72.7%) cases. Where radiography was inconclusive, ultrasonography contributed to a diagnosis in 17/22 (77.3%) cases.

Clinical pathological information included biochemistry/haematology (133/185 abnormal), activated partial thromboplastin time and prothrombin time (12/26 prolonged), FIV/FeLV (2/2 negative), urinalysis (9/19 abnormal) and urine culture (1/7 positive).

The median time from admission to anaesthetic induction was 12 hours (range 0.75-672) and the median surgical duration was 120 minutes (range 25-325), which was unrelated to species, age, weight or survival (p>0.05).

One hundred and forty animals (74.1%) survived until discharge following a median hospitalisation of 4 days (range 1-20). Nineteen animals (10%) were euthanased intra-operatively and 30 (15.9%) were euthanased/died following a median post-operative hospitalisation of 3 days (range 1-24). A greater proportion of cats (17/37, 45.9%) than dogs (32/152, 21.1%) did not survive (P= 0.004). Survival was less likely in animals undergoing surgery for diagnostic (8/11, 72.7%) rather than therapeutic (41/178, 23.0%) purposes (p ................
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