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About Burtons Academy

Burtons Veterinary Equipment now has a Clinical Team to complement its extensive anaesthesia product range.

The Clinical Team is developing and designing, engaging, innovative CPD on various topics of anaesthesia, focusing particularly on patient monitoring and mechanical ventilation in exotic, small animal and large animal species.

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In veterinary education, high-level personalised CPD that is 100% relevant to your practice and the specific needs of your staff is hard to come by.

That is why, Burtons Academy are offering live practice-specific webinars for 1:1 education on the anaesthesia monitoring topics your team uses daily.

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Live CPD Webinar on Capnography

Capnography has become routine in many practices and has been a great step forward in patient monitoring, but there are some fundamental pitfalls.
In this live webinar, we discuss how to set up your capnograph, present solutions for hypo-and hypercapnia, and discuss how to troubleshoot certain waveforms. One common misconception is that carbon dioxide (CO2) is the “bad guy”, and we must get rid of it, but actually, too much or too little CO2 in the blood creates pH imbalances which result in disturbances to normal homeostatic processes in the body.

So, when we monitor our patients for hypocapnia or hypercapnia, we’re not only assessing the patient’s ability to ventilate effectively, but we are using this information to ensure the levels of CO2 are normal in the lungs, these levels are similar to the levels of CO2 in the blood and maintain an optimal blood pH.

Capnography is so much more than waveforms…

  • Tailored to the unique needs of your practice
  • Specific to the equipment that you use daily
  • Each session is 1 hour, with a Q&A Session at the end
  • Ongoing support is offered via email or phone
  • Learn with our dedicated Clinical Educator in Anaesthesia - Courtney Scales
  • No limit on participants that can join
  • Teams link shared for those not on shift to join remotely
  • CPD Certificates and written notes supplied after the event
  • Live only - Not available for download or to watch on demand
  • Available Mondays-Friday between 10am and 3pm

From £250

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Meet The Clinical Team

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Keith Simpson

BVSc MRCVS MIET - Clinical Director
 
Keith qualified from Bristol University Vet School in 1986 and spent 15 years in a combination of mixed and small animal practice in the Southwest. Returning to College to study an HNC in Electronics, Keith gained entry to the Institute of Incorporated Engineers in 1994 before going on to study for a Master’s in Electronics in 1997 at the University of Exeter.

Thus, having strong footholds in two disciplines that together formed the foundation of the well-known Vetronic Services, now Vetronic by Burtons. Since then, Keith has designed and manufactured over 50 unique products for the veterinary market, with a passion for ventilation and its monitoring. Keith has also produced many articles and given numerous talks over the years on all aspects of ventilation and monitoring.
 
Keith’s knowledge base includes the following areas:
 
Ventilators & Ventilation: Classification, types and modes, ventilation theory, underlying physics and physiology and clinical application.
Monitoring: Multi-parameter physics, physiology and design.Concepts and theory of capnography, pulse-oximetry, blood pressure monitoring, ECG, temperature and breath analysis. Application in aclinical setting and interpretation of the preceding, based on core concepts.