Emergency anaesthesia
Tracks
Stream One - Hall C
| Wednesday, April 17, 2024 |
| 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM |
| Hall C |
Overview
Marcia Fletcher
Speaker
Mrs Marcia Fletcher
The Pink Stethoscope
Emergency anaesthesia
Abstract
Life threatening conditions such as a gastric dilation with volvulus or a haemoabdomen are two of the most critically emergent patients that we must anaesthetise for life saving surgery to commence. We do this with little to no time to stabilise them successfully. When time is of the essence it can be immensely stressful and difficult to think clearly. This lecture discusses why these conditions lead to mortality so quickly and describes the anaesthetic complications to anticipate whilst these patients are in our care. Pre, peri and post-operative support is described with the end goal of promoting less morbidity and mortality in these intense cases.
Biography
Marcia is a registered veterinary nurse specialist and an international speaker. Having 20 years’ experience in veterinary anaesthesia, she started her career working for the Massey University Veterinary Teaching Hospital in New Zealand and was the senior anaesthesia nurse there for over 16 years. In 2011 she became New Zealand’s first Veterinary Technician Specialist in Anaesthesia and Analgesia. She has been awarded New Zealand’s “Vet Nurse of the Year”, and several teaching awards including “Teacher of the Year”. Marcia is also a RECOVER certified instructor of both basic and advanced CPR.
In 2020 Marcia left the university teaching life and created The Pink Stethoscope, her platform to elevate veterinary anaesthesia within the entire veterinary community.
Through The Pink Stethoscope she independently provides postgraduate veterinary anaesthesia education, training, webinars and consultations both nationally and internationally. Marcia loves all aspects of veterinary anaesthesia teaching. Her passion has always been instilling anaesthesia knowledge to the greater veterinary profession - to make a somewhat challenging subject less stressful, and ultimately to empower veterinary professionals to continue their anaesthesia learning journey.
Away from work Marcia is a busy kiwi mum, enjoying her home life with her husband, daughter, son, and very special “fur-daughter” Minnie the tuxedo cat.
