On Sunday, October 23rd, many of CUVS's specialists lectured at a one day continuing education seminar for veterinarians titled The First 24 Hours: A Multifaceted Approach To The Emergency Patient. Over one hundred veterinarians attended the six lectures which were held at the Hyatt in Old Greenwich, CT. The lectures, which covered a broad range of emergency topics, were led by veterinary specialists from Cornell University Veterinary Specialists as well as the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine.

Following the lectures were two labs which allowed veterinarians to get hands-on experience with either CPR using a virtual model or emergency radiology of the thorax and abdomen using a computer-based laboratory.

The feedback from the attending vets was very positive and we all enjoyed meeting up with local veterinarians face-to-face. Although the veterinary field is a small community, and we do refer cases back and forth, it is not often we can meet up as a group to get to know one another. It's nice to put faces to names so that we can forge stronger bonds with our referring veterinarians moving forward.

Lectures presented at "The First 24 Hours" included:

• Critical Thinking in the Critical Patient: 30 Minutes to Save a Life (Dr. Sergi Serrano LV, DVM, DACVECC)

• Getting to the Heart of the Matter: The Emergency Heart Failure Patient (Dr. Mandi Kleman DVM, DACVIM (Cardiology)

• Hematology in the Emergency Setting (Dr. Deanna Schaefer DVM, MS, MT(ASCP), DACVP)

• Endocrine Emergencies: A Case-based Presentation (Dr. Marnin Forman DVM, DACVIM (Internal Medicine)

• Making the Cut: The Fine Line Between Urgent and Emergent Surgery (Dr. Alon Kramer DVM, DACVS)

• Breaking Myths: Teaching Old Dogmas New Tricks (Panel Discussion- Dr. Daniel Fletcher, Dr. Susan Hackner, Dr. Alex Rousseau, Dr. Sergi Serrano)

Labs presented at "The First 24 Hours" included:

• Cardiopulmonarycerebral Resuscitation (CPR) Using a Virtual Model (Dr. Daniel Fletcher DVM, PhD, DACVECC)

• Emergency Radiology of the Thorax and Abdomen (Dr. Margaret S. Thompson DVM, DACVR)