College of Veterinary Medicine

An invitation to Veterinary Medical Practitioners and Veterinary Medical Students to attend the...

9th Annual Small Animal Medicine Conference on Renal Failure in Dogs and Cats

Saturday, January 27, 2001

Date and Time
Saturday, January 27, 2001
8:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Location
Frick Auditorium, Mosier Hall, College of Veterinary Medicine, 1800 Denison Avenue, Manhattan, KS
Frick Auditorium is located in Mosier Hall. Enter at the Small Animal Entrance. Signs will be posted to direct you to registration.

Continuing Education Contact Hours for Veterinarians
6 Clock Hours

Objectives
These lectures will provide the participant an in depth review of the overt clinical consequences of acute and chronic renal failure in dogs and cats. The presentation will emphasize the clinical evaluation and the conventional as well as the dialytic management of these common and clinically profound disorders. The goals are to provide therapeutic strategies and recommendations based on the latest information from clinical research and contemporary clinical practice.

Schedule
7:30 am	Registration
8:00 am	Welcome Ralph Richardson, Dean, College of Veterinary Medicine Ken Harkin, SCAAHA Faculty Advisor
8:15 am	Laboratory Assessment of Renal Disease—From the Eyes of a Nephrologist To effectively evaluate and manage renal insufficiency, the clinician must thoroughly understand and interpret the laboratory database. This lecture will provide a nephrologist’s perspective on how to make the most from this information.
9:15 am	Refreshment Break
9:30 am	Emergency and Conventional Management of Acute Renal Failure—Your First “Shot” at Saving the Patient Appropriate medical management is critical for the supportive care and recovery of acutely uremic animals. This lecture will emphasize the conservative approach to the major clinical consequences of acute renal failure.
10:30 am	Refreshment Break
10:45 am	Dialytic Management of Acute and Chronic Renal Failure—A Therapeutic Option for Patients with No Conventional Options Description of the techniques and application of hemodialysis in dogs and cats with severe acute and chronic renal failure.
11:45 am	Lunch (on your own)
1:00 pm	An Updated Look at the Nutritional Management of Chronic Renal Failure This lecture will review the role of dietary protein in the manifestations and management of chronic progressive renal failure and will provide a strategy for the rational prescription of dietary protein in dogs and cats.
2:00 pm	Refreshment break
2:15 pm	Monitoring the Dietary Prescription and Conventional Medical Management of Chronic Renal Failure This lecture will emphasize the clinical consequences and management of the mineral imbalances, metabolic acidosis, and “uremic intoxication” characteristic of chronic progressive renal failure and how to appropriately monitor the therapeutic recommendations.
3:15 pm	Refreshment Break
3:30 pm	Anemia and Systemic Hypertension—The Ignored Consequences of Chronic Renal Failure Both anemia and systemic hypertension are inevitable and serious consequences of chronic renal insufficiency and must be managed to effectively rehabilitate uremic animals. Recombinant human erythropoietin is an effective therapeutic weapon for the anemia of uremic animals, but it is poorly understood or utilized despite its availability for nearly a decade. Similarly, the diagnosis and management of systemic hypertension remains a disease that veterinarians consistently ignore.
4:15 pm	Questions and Answers
4:30 pm	Evaluation and Adjourn

Speakers
Larry D. Cowgill , DVM, PhD, Diplomate ACVIM
Dr. Cowgill is currently a professor in the Department of Medicine and Epidemiology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California-Davis. He received his DVM in 1971 from the University of California-Davis. He completed an internship and residency at the School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania. His PhD was completed in 1976 in Comparative Medical Sciences, Graduate Group of Comparative Medical Sciences, Graduate School of Art and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Cowgill became a diplomate in the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine in 1976 and joined the faculty at the University of California-Davis. In 1996 he became the Director of Companion Animal Hemodialysis Units, Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital and University of California Veterinary Medical Center-San Diego, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California-Davis.

Student Chapter of the American Animal
Hospital Association
The Student Chapter of the American Animal Hospital Association (SCAAHA) at KSU promotes quality veterinary care, animal wellness, and positive human-animal interactions. SCAAHA’s Pets and People provides animal education programs for elementary schools and animal visitation programs for retirement communities.

Dr. Kenneth Harkin is the faculty advisor for the Student Chapter of AAHA and an Assistant Professor of Small Animal Internal Medicine at KSU.

Student Chapter of AAHA Officers:

President............................... Mollie Lusk
Vice President ...................... Joshua Peterson
Secretary/Treasurer............... Sara Burroughs
Pets and People.................... Nannette Cardona Parra
Pets and People ................... Aprill Sherman
Freshman Representative....... Ryan Church

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