Join us on August 7-8th, 2025, for our Gastrointestinal Surgery workshop sponsored by Knight Benedikt at VetPartners Veterinary Training Centre, Sydney, Australia!

This two-day workshop is designed for veterinarians who want to gain more confidence, create new enthusiasm and enhance your surgical skills and capabilities in abdominal surgery.  Our Abdominal Surgery workshops is designed to be a hands-on practical workshop to enhance your skills in various aspects of abdominal surgery. This workshop is ideal for Veterinarians wanting to spend time practicing surgical techniques. Whether you are fresh out of vet school or a seasoned vet, this work shop is for you.

Registration Fee: $2,970 AUD ex. GST per person (Now only $2,640 until 26 Jun 2025!)

INSTRUCTOR

Dr. Ben Mielke BVSc (Hons), MVetMed, MANZCVS, Dip ECVS MRCVS

 

Course Description

This two-day workshop is designed for veterinarians who want to gain more confidence, create new enthusiasm and enhance your surgical skills and capabilities in abdominal surgery.
Our Abdominal Surgery workshops is designed to be a hands-on practical workshop to enhance your skills in various aspects of abdominal surgery. This workshop is ideal for Veterinarians wanting to spend time practicing surgical techniques. Whether you are fresh out of vet school or a seasoned vet, this work shop is for you.

• Can you perform an exploratory laparotomy confidently and easily?
• Are you able to perform an enterotomy or an intestinal anastomosis?
• Do you look forward to the surgical management of GDV?

If you answered NO to any of these questions, this workship is for you.

Key Learning Areas:

• Preparing a patient for exploratory laparotomy, drug choices – analgesia, antibiotics
• Avoiding peek and shriek (standard approach and evaluation of the abdomen)
• Tips for Gastrointestinal surgery – identifying issues, suture type/pattern choice, use of suction and cautery
• Assessing GI tissue viability
• Organ biopsy methods: liver, pancreas, lymph node, intestinal
• Simple enterotomy, gastropexy (prophylactic), gastrotomy, serosal patching, omentalisation
• Foreign body identification and management (intestinal, linear, oesophageal)
• Anastamoses – tips and tricks
• Partial gastrectomies
• GDV’s and Splenectomies
• Intussusceptions
• Diaphragmatic hernia repair
• Oesophagostomy tube placement
• Post op care

Value to Your Practice

This two-day workshop is designed for veterinarians who want to gain more confidence, create new enthusiasm and enhance your surgical skills and capabilities in abdominal surgery.

You will walk away from this course being able to confidently perform and exploratory laparotomy, enterotomy, intestinal enastomosis and surgically manage GDV’s.

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