LAHORE:The Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences of the University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences (UVAS) Lahore arranged a two-day national workshop on ‘Anesthesia in pet animal practice’ at UVAS Veterinary Academy, which concluded here on Wednesday.
Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr Nasim Ahmad presided over the inaugural session of the workshop, while Sanam Pharma Chief Executive Officer Shafique Ahmad Sheikh chaired the concluding ceremony. He presented shields to the resource persons, sponsors, organisers and distributed certificates among participants. Prof Dr Asim Khalid Mehmood, Dr Uzma Fareed Durrani, Dr Ziaullah Mughal and a number of participants from different institutions across the country were present.
During the workshop, experts delivered their lectures on the topic of physiological aspects of anesthesia, pre-anesthesia assessment of patients, gas anesthesia, birds and rabbit anesthesia, post-anesthesia and surgery, nutritional management in companion animal, local anesthesia, factor affecting the anesthesia, hands-on training of gas anesthesia machine and its working and hands-on training on general hands-on anesthesia in birds and rabbit, etc.
The aim of the workshop was to impart practical knowledge regarding latest anesthesia techniques in the field of veterinary anesthesia to the small animal practitioner.