When a SVN enters a workplace, they are expected to begin to ‘put into action’ what they have learned in the classroom. This is no simple transition (Konkola et al, 2007). Students may struggle to...
Woolf (2011) defined the three types of pain as: neurological, this stems from the nervous system because of abnormal function; nociceptive, this is a result of a noxious stimulus damaging the...
Key to helping students learn is to understand them as learners: how they learn and the difficulties they encounter. SVNs are ‘adult learners’ (Knowles 1984a; Knowles et al, 2005), which means they...
The veterinary surgeon will decide when anaesthesia is necessary — this may be at the time of injury or may not be until the patient has been stabilised, which may take a few hours or even days.
The brain, along with cerebrospinal fluid and intracranial blood, make up the cranial space, which is all enclosed by skull (Elias et al, 2019). The pressure within the skull, the intracranial...
Although young patients are capable of rapid repair, it was stated by Rigotti and Brearley (2016) that these patients have a reduced capacity to compensate in response to physiological changes that...
Premedication can be a useful tool in small mammal medicine. The use of a premedicant can sedate the patient, reducing stress on induction, and some drugs may have an anaesthetic-sparing effect,...
Supraglottic airway devices (SGADs) were developed for use in human anaesthesia to offer a simple and effective alternative to endotracheal intubation. SGADs are defined as devices that ventilate...
The operating room (OR) is acknowledged to be one of the most complex work environments in human health care, so it is perhaps unsurprising that it has such a high potential for complications...
There is a growing body of evidence in human medicine regarding pain management in critically ill people, and this supports the notion that effective pain management in humans decreases morbidity and...
