Scientific Program Highlights

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120 speakers presented over 450 hours of cutting-edge CE
35 hours of CE credit was available
Basic to advanced level lectures and labs on clinical monitoring.
CPR Training course for veterinarian-technician teams and technician teams alone.
Invited lectures by Dr John Marshall, internationally acclaimed expert on sepsis and human critical care.
A full day of State-of-the-art presentations featured discussions on advances in MOF, pulmonary hypertension, oxidative stress and molecular basis of therapeutics.
One day devoted to exotic animal EM/CC with an additional ½ day wet-lab.
Conducted over 40 labs and Small Group Discussion sessions; 75% were sold out prior to the meeting and over 95% of all seats in the sessions were filled.
A day of Disaster Medicine presentations relating to lessons learned from the 2005 hurricanes.
Audience Response (keypad interactive) system was utilized in three days of the program.
Small Animal Abstracts program included over 40 papers and posters.

Technician program with 4½ days of lectures and labs
Over 850 techs attended, making it one of the largest tech meetings in North America.
Three simultaneous tracks of tech program sessions
A half day devoted to a Multidisciplinary Review program
The AVTA conducted a special one-half day program
Several hands-on labs focusing on monitoring, vascular access, nursing care, catheter management and CPR.

Equine Medicine program Over 50 equine oriented veterinarians attended
Equine Abstracts featured 19 papers
Three days devoted to equine critical care with focus on equine monitoring, multiple organ dysfunction and ICU management.

Management program - Two days
Included panel discussions on facility design and personnel management in referral practices.
Commonly encountered management issues addressed by working practice managers.