Saturday, February 1, 2025
8:00am - 12:00pm
1:00pm - 5:00pm
Attend in Person or Virtually
8 hours of Continuing Education
Advanced Registration:
Member: $150
Non-Member: $200
PPVM Student: Free
Life Member: $75
Printed Proceedings: $25 - Must be ordered by January 17, no exceptions.
Electronic Proceedings: Free to all attendees
Lunch is provided.
Late Registration (after January 17) and Onsite:
Member: $200
Non-Member: $250
PPVM Student: $25
Life Member: $100
Printed Proceedings: NOT AVAILABLE
Electronic Proceedings: Free
Lunch is provided.
The meeting will be recorded and made available to all registered attendees after the meeting. Purchase of the recordings is available at the prices noted above.
Rooms:
Block of rooms available at:
Best Western Ramkota
2111 N. Lacrosse Street
Rapid City, SD 57701
Room Rate: $119.00 plus tax for 2 queen beds
Reserve by calling 605-343-8550 and asking for the SDVMA West River CE Block or reserve online using this unique link: https://www.bestwestern.com/en_US/book/hotel-rooms.42048.html?groupId=3N9TV8P6
SDVMA Special Room Rate expires January 17
Program
Up Your Companion Animal Surgery Game – Lessons from High Quality High Volume Spay/Neuter Programs
Find your true potential and learn techniques that increase your efficiency, reduce surgical time, and improve patient outcomes. HQHVSN methods are based on optimizing the team, protocols, and workflow to provide safe and efficient spay/neuter of pets, shelter animals, and community cats. This is accomplished by creating simple protocols and procedures that maximize efficiency of the team while minimizing any potential for oversights and developing skill through repetition. Learning about these methods can help save lives, prevent homelessness and euthanasia due to overpopulation, and bring more revenue to the practice.
Learning Objectives:
- Realize how HQHVSN is performed with excellent patient outcomes and lifesaving results for shelter animals and community cats.
- Weigh current data surrounding the optimal time for spay/neuter and understand recommendations based on those data.
- Review scientifically validated techniques used by experienced practitioners, including proper use of a spay hook, pedicle ties, the Modified Miller knot, scrotal castrations, and pediatric spay/neuter techniques.
- Examine how effective teams function to maximize efficiency while providing quality care to patients and good service to clients.
- Discuss anesthesia protocols, pre- and post-operative care of patients, patient monitoring, vaccinations, parasite treatments, pain control, and emergency/CPR protocols.
- Recognize how HQHVSN can be specifically tailored to community cat clinics with over 100 cats spayed or neutered in one day.
Pet Pathogens and Molecular Diagnostics – From the Shelter to Your Exam Room
This program will review the most significant infectious diseases currently affecting pets and enhance clinicians’ understanding of how next generation tests work in detecting the presence of viral, bacterial, fungal, and parasitic pathogens in patients.
Learning Objectives:
- Attendees will explore the most significant infectious diseases observed in a shelter/rescue setting that they may be expected to diagnose and treat.
- Attendees will learn how qPCR works to detect pathogens reliably and accurately.
- Attendees will understand the benefits and drawbacks of using molecular diagnostics to diagnose infectious diseases in companion animals.
Speaker:
Becky L. Morrow, DVM, MS, CAWA
Assistant Teaching Professor, Penn State University
Adjunct Faculty, UF College of Veterinary Medicine
President and Medical Director, Frankie's Friends Cat Rescue
Medical Director, Vetenari (Molecular Diagnostics)
Dr. Becky Morrow is a 1998 graduate of The Ohio State University College of Veterinary Medicine. She spent six years in general practice before entering academia as an assistant professor of biology. Shortly thereafter, Dr. Morrow was introduced to shelter medicine through a service-learning project with an HQHVSN organization. After her involvement in the investigation of a massive, institutionalized hoarding case, she founded Frankie’s Friends Cat Rescue to continue caring for over a hundred cats that required long-term medical care. Dr. Morrow earned a master’s degree and two graduate certificates in veterinary forensics and shelter medicine from the University of Florida. She has since performed tens of thousands of spay/neuter surgeries at Frankie’s Friends Cat Rescue, has processed many animal crime scenes and testified in court, and has been the medical director of multiple shelters/non-profit organizations. Dr. Morrow also taught HQHVSN techniques and shelter medicine at the University of Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine. She is currently an Assistant Teaching Professor at Penn State University, an Adjunct Assistant Teaching Professor at the University of Florida and training veterinary students and veterinarians in HQHVSN techniques at Frankie’s Friends.
