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International speakers (left to right) Kevin Corley, Jane Axon and Mary Rose Paradis with Peter Rossdale at the Jockey Club Rooms.Rossdales 5th Foal Care Course acclaimed a success
22nd January 2010
In spite of the inclement weather, 62 delegates attended Rossdale & Partners’ 5th Foal Care Course held at the British Racing School, Newmarket on 13th, 14th and 15th January.
As for the previous courses, the practice’s foal care consultant, Sarah Stoneham designed the programme of lectures. Mary Rose Paradis, Head of Large Animal Medicine and Surgery, Tufts Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, Massachusetts, USA; Jane Axon, Head of Scone Veterinary Hospital’s Clovelly Intensive Care Unit, New South Wales, Australia; and Kevin Corley, Head of Anglesey Lodge Equine Hospital’s Intensive Care Unit, The Curragh, Ireland, all recognised experts in foal care, were the international speakers. Alex Dugdale, of the University of Liverpool’s School of Veterinary Science, Leahurst and a recognised expert in foal anaesthesia, spoke on that subject. Rossdale & Partners’ clinicians Andy Bathe, Emily Haggett, Florence Manning, Celia Marr, Andrew McGladdery, Sidney Ricketts, Sarah Stoneham and Nick Wingfield Digby, pathologist Alastair Foote, research scientists Jenny Ousey and Lorraine Palmer and remedial farrier Simon Curtis completed the team.
The three days of lectures covered all aspects of foal care from routine veterinary examinations and immediate care on the studfarm to intensive care and support in a referral hospital neonatal intensive care unit; from foal clinical pathology, foal disease serological and PCR testing and foal nutrition to foal postmortem examinations; from foal routine preventive medicine programmes and specific treatments for Rhodococcal and Lawsonia infections to foal vaccinations; from routine foal orthopaedic assessments to limb surgery and shockwave therapy, catering both for clinicians in practice and for those in referral NICUs.
On the first evening, delegates and speakers enjoyed guided tours of Rossdales Equine Hospital & Diagnostic Centre at Exning, including the Peter Rossdale Foal Care Unit, followed by supper in the Simon Gibson seminar facility. Everyone involved in the Course, including Peter Rossdale, the ‘father of modern equine perinatology’, enjoyed a splendid dinner at the Jockey Club followed by a guided tour of the rooms on the second evening.
Jenny Ricketts of Whorl Publishing administrated the course and its social programme. Intervet Schering-Plough Animal Health was generous main sponsor and BCF Technology, Direct Medical Supplies, Merial Animal Health, Veterinary Concepts Europe and Veterinary Immunogenics generously supported with trade stands. Equine Veterinary Journal attended with their bookshop.
Copies of the course booklet of 184 pages, with lecture notes edited by Sarah Stoneham and produced by Whorl Publishing, can be purchased from Jenny Ricketts (telephone: 01638 577822; fax: 01638 577975; email: info@whorlpublishing.co.uk; web: www.whorlpublishing.co.uk at £40 each.
Delegate feedback questionnaires were universally complimentary and all those involved now look forward to the 6th Course.
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