Collect a relevant case history from the owner

Evaluate the patient to assess any gait alterations and lameness

Perform palpation and manipulation of the forelimb and hindlimb to evaluate bones, joints, tendons and muscles

Use additional diagnostic tools as appropriate to help assess the patient

Formulate a treatment plan(s) and communicate this to the owner

Key learning objectives:

• The initial assessment of the fracture patient
• Descriptions and applications of fracture classification
• Principles and decision making in fracture repair
• Methods of fracture fixation and implants, including plating and external fixation devices

Key learning objectives:

• The principles of fracture reduction, including both closed and open techniques
• Options for bone grafting including both cancellous and cortical grafts
• Approaches to the following complications: delayed union, non-union, mal-union and osteomyelitis

Key learning objectives:

• Luxation, osteochondrosis, dysplasia, excision arthroplasty and fractures of the shoulder
• Luxations, developmental disease, un-united anconeal process and fractures of the elbow
• Developmental carpal disease, carpal hyperextension and arthrodesis, luxations and fractures of the carpus and foot Growth plate disorders

Key learning objectives:

• Conditions of the hip, including dysplasia, luxations, arthroplasty and total hip replacement
• Pelvic fractures
• Femoral fractures
• Conditions of the stifle, including patellar luxation, osteochondrosis, fractures and cruciate rupture
• Conditions of the hock, including osteochondrosis, luxation and fractures

Key learning objectives:

• Radial Fracture - Surgical repair using a bone plate and screws
• Humeral Fracture - Surgical repair using an intramedullary pin and a bone plate and screws
• Femoral Fracture - Surgical repair using an intramedullary pin and a bone plate and screws
• External Fixation and Bone Grafting Practical Session:
  • Cancellous bone grafting - Harvest cancellous bone from the proximal humerus
  • Review external fixation equipment - Familiarise yourself with the pins, bars and clamps
  • Tibial Fracture - Surgical repair with a type II linear frame
  • Comminuted Radial Fracture - Surgical repair with a type Ib linear frame

Key learning objectives:

• Perform a caudolateral and craniomedial approach to the shoulder joint
• Perform a biceps tenotomy
• Revise various elbow joint procedures
• Perform a medial and lateral approach to the elbow joint
• Perform a subtotal coronoidectomy
• Apply a lag screw fixation to fix the Ununited Anconeal Process (UAP)
• Execute a proximal/distal ulna osteotomy

Key learning objectives:

• Perform a craniodorsal approach to the hip
• Identify all the steps to correctly perform a femoral head ostectomy (FHNO)
• Approach to the stifle joint laterally
• Execute lateral fabello-tibial sutures
• Perform recession trochleoplasties
• Describe the key stages involved in a tibial tuberosity transposition procedure

Key learning objectives:

• Integrate the principles of lesion localisation to your spinal cases via a systematic neurological examination and its’ interpretation
• Understand the application of neurodiagnostics
• Appreciate the approach to and management of paraplegia and tetraplegia
• Be familiar with the clinical approach to neurological emergencies, including cranial trauma and status epilepticus

根据部位讨论脊柱手术的选择 颈椎 - 前侧开槽术 胸腰椎 - 半椎板切除术 腰骶椎 - 背侧椎板切除术 脑脊液穿刺和脊髓造影 - 确定获取脑脊液样本和进行诊断性脊髓造影的适当标志点

Key Learning Objectives:

• Myelography
• Lumbar puncture and puncture of the cisterna magna
• Cervical disc surgery by ventral partial spondylectomy (""ventral slot"")
• Thoracolumbar hemilaminectomy
• Lumbosacral stenosis (DLSS) treated by dorsal laminectomy