Pathophysiology

Understand how urethral obstruction causes physiological changes in our patients and grow your confidence in recognising these changes.

Critical Escalation Points

Become confident with critical escalation points through your initial triage exam, allowing you to confidently and accurately assign triage levels and escalate cases that require immediate emergency care with a veterinarian to prevent further decompensation. 

Evidence-Based Practices

Grow your confidence with evidence-based treatments your veterinarian is likely to prescribe for these patients, meaning a seemless initiation of treatments when you know what to prepare and how to administer these interventions safely and accurately. 

About the Course

Feline urethral obstruction cases are extremely common to present to both emergency hospitals and first opinion practices. This lecture will discuss phone triage, presentation triage, pathophysiology of urethral obstruction, initial stabilisation considerations, evidence-based treatments, preparing for the unblocking procedure and specific nursing considerations, interventions and monitoring techniques post obstruction. While an overly common condition, each case can present in different stages of this disease process making it vital to ensure nurses are confident with critical escalation points. Intended learning focusses on early recognition, assigning an appropriate triage level based on the individual patient presentation, identification alongside treatment of life-threatening complications, preparation and actioning of appropriate interventions and nursing care of the hospitalised patient. There will be limited discussion on the process of the unblocking procedure, instead focussing on the initial stabilisation care and post obstruction nursing care.

Meet Laura Bennington

Laura qualified with a BSc (Honors) degree in Veterinary Nursing in 2010 and subsequently became a registered vet nurse with the RCVS working in the UK. In 2015 she moved to Australia and began her journey into emergency and critical care and has since worked in a range of nursing and leadership positions in multiple specialty clinics, mainly based in intensive care units and emergency rooms but also dabbling in internal medicine and surgical specialties. Laura now works as the clinical development and operational support specialist ECC vet nurse at Ready Vet Go, Melbourne's Vet Ambulance Service as well as teaching the next generation of Vet Nurses at a bachelor's degree course in Melbourne! During all this, Laura has gained extra qualifications, including completing her certificate in ECC nursing in 2019 and passing the vigorous application process and examination to gain her VTS (ECC) status in 2022! Laura is a self-confessed nerd that not only loves learning but also teaching and empowering others to learn more! This is why she started her continued education venture, 'Veterinary Emergency Specialty Training' aka VEST (@Laurarvn.vest on Instagram) so that she could share her experience and knowledge to help others learn and develop their skills. Laura’s other passion is the progression of the vet nursing profession. Laura is constantly working with different organisations to try and improve the standardisation, recognition and regulation surrounding the veterinary nurse profession.

Course Curriculum

1 Chapter · 3 Lessons

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    Ur-in(e) Trouble: Stabilisation of the FLUTD Urethral Obstruction Feline

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      Webinar Video

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      PP PDF

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      Quiz to get your ceritificate!

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