ACVA Annual Meeting

2012 Meeting Details

ACVA Program at IVECCS 2012
San Antonio, TX
September 8–12, 2012

More information about the 2012 meeting can be found at: http://www.2012.iveccs.org/.

Tentative Schedule for 2012 ACVA Meeting

Added 15 Mar 2012

Saturday, September 8

8 am - noon: Advanced Anesthesia Monitoring Dry Lab

Sunday, September 9

8 am - 5:15 pm: Abstracts
8 am - noon: Local Blocks Dry Lab
~6 pm: Annual Business Meeting (pending decision on whether it should be held at the World Congress of Veterinary Anaesthesia in Cape Town, South Africa)

Monday, September 10

8 am - 5:15pm: ACVA focus lectures

• What makes them hurt? Physiology of Pain, part 1
• They’re hurting. So what? Physiology of Pain, part 2
• Anesthesia and Analgesia of the Geriatric Patient
• Neuropathic pain: How can we tell they hurt?
• Neuropathic pain management in large animal practice
• IVAPM/ACVA Panel: Clinical cases from the trenches

8 am - noon: Local Blocks Wet Lab

Tuesday, September 11

General session anesthesia lectures:

• 11:00am: Anesthesia for the critically ill feline
• 1:30pm: Dangers and safety in anesthesia
• 2:45pm: New anesthetic and analgesic drugs
• 4:00pm: Current topics in Anesthesia and Analgesia Panel

Oral Exam

Added 15 Mar 2012

September ? – noon, September 8, depending on the number of candidates

Exam Committee meeting – noon September 8

Saturday, September 8 – ~6 pm – BOD meeting to approve exam outcome

2012 Abstracts

Added 15 Mar 2012

Deadline for abstract submission is 11:59 p.m. (Pacific Standard Time) 9th April, 2012. Click here to download ACVA Abstract Guidelines for 2012.

Download Abstracts from 2011

Small Animal
Large Animal