02 Oct 2025 - 02 Oct 2025

Fundamentals of Equine Acute Trauma

Join us for Fundamentals of Equine Acute Trauma to enhance your suturing skills, build your confidence in casting and bandaging and practise your understanding of synoviocentesis methods.

Course dates

02 Oct 2025 08:45 - 02 Oct 2025 16:15

Pool House Equine Hospital, Crown Inn Farm, WS13 8RD

About this course

Join us to boost your confidence in managing wounds, assessing septic joints and undertaking suturing techniques.

Prior to the practical day you will have access to online lectures covering the theory so we can get hands-on at Pool House Equine Hospital. The online lectures will cover euthanasia, wounds, the recumbent horse and synovial sepsis and what to consider if the horse is unable to move.

Small group practical sessions on 2 October will:

• discuss when to close a wound, how to close it and what to use
• teach you tension-relieving suture patterns and techniques
• develop your bandaging techniques
• discuss how and when a cast or bandage should be applied
• discuss what dressings should be used
• go through synoviocentesis methods for coffin joints, fetlock and digital flexor tendon sheath

This course is part of our Fundamentals of Equine Practice series. By working with leading equine practices we’ve developed 10 practical courses that provide the essential skills necessary to thrive in equine practice. See the rest of the series.

Learning outcomes

By the end of the course you will...

• have confidence in making good clinical decisions with wounds and euthanasia
• have consolidated practical skills in suturing, imaging, nerve blocking and arthrocentesis
• be able to identify orthopaedic cases that requires referral and ones that can be readily treated on the owner’s yard
• be able to analyse laboratory results as part of case management

Course programme

Our speakers

• Course Organiser: Richard Stephenson BVMS Cert VR Cert EP MRCVS
• Patrick MacAndrew BVM&S Cert EP MRCVS
• Marco Marcatili DVM PhD Cert AVP DECVS MRCVS
• Jonathan Withers BVMS Cert EP DECVS MRCVS
• Chris Wright BVSc Cert VR Cert EM(IntMed) MRCVS (online only)

Course prices

• Vet member: £340
• Non member: £680

Terms and conditions

By registering for this course, you agree to the following terms and conditions:

Payment and transfers

• All payments must be made in pound sterling. Your place on the course is not guaranteed until full payment has been made.
• Booked places can be transferred to another person free of charge if requested two weeks before the start of the course. If the transferee is not a BEVA member, they will be liable for the difference between the member and non-member rate. If a transfer is requested less than two weeks prior to the start date a 10% administration charge will apply. 
• A full refund will be made, less a 10% administration charge, if cancellation is more than six weeks before the start of the course.
• A refund cannot be guaranteed if cancellation is less than six weeks before the start of the course. A full refund will be made if we are able to resell the place, less a 20% administration charge.
• In the unlikely event that we are required to cancel or postpone the course you can opt to receive a full refund or receive a CPD credit. The CPD credit is valid for one year from the date of issue and can be used on any BEVA CPD event.

Membership deals

• To be eligible for the BEVA member price you are required to be a BEVA member at the time of the course. If your membership expires before the course date you will be invoiced the difference.
• For all non-member bookings a 12-month digital BEVA membership is included in the course price and will be set up within five working days of receiving payment. If you cancel your place after the membership is set up any refund given will be minus the number of months membership you have already had. If you transfer your place the membership can be transferred at the same time, however the length of the membership will not be extended.

Programme

• Whilst the course programme is correct at time of print, BEVA reserves the right to change details of the event without notice. All best endeavours will be made to present the programme as publicised however alterations may occasionally be necessary due to circumstances beyond our control.
• You will receive 12 months access to course materials via the BEVA online learning platform. Recordings of live aspects of the course will be made available as soon as possible after the live date.

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