Have the "Guts" to Run These Tests? Gastrointestinal Blood Panels
1.0 CE Credit Hour / Gary P. Oswald, DVM, MS, DACVIM (SAIM)
Gary P. Oswald, DVM, MS, DACVIM (SAIM)
Gary P. Oswald, DVM, MS, DACVIM (SAIM), is a board-certified specialist in veterinary internal medicine. Dr. Oswald is a Cleveland, Ohio, native and received his BS and DVM degrees from The Ohio State University. He interned at Oradell Animal Hospital in New Jersey and completed a medical residency and MS in internal medicine at Colorado State University. The author of multiple veterinary articles, he frequently presents continuing education lecture series throughout the United States and abroad. He has been in private specialty practice since 1991 and served as department head of internal medicine and emergency medicine at Tampa Bay Veterinary Specialists & Emergency Care Center in Florida. His current focus is on veterinary education and medical consulting. He evaluates patients with internal medicine, cardiopulmonary, oncology, and emergency problems.
Overview:
A complete gastrointestinal blood panel is often not evaluated or delayed in dogs and cats with acute and chronic gastrointestinal clinical signs. This may be in part due to submission requirement to an outside reference laboratory. Newer technologies now enable many gastrointestinal panel blood tests to be complete as "bedside" point-of-care diagnostics in the clinic or hospital with rapid result times.
Learning Objectives:
- The attendee will learn which tests should be evaluated when performing a complete gastrointestinal blood panel to evaluate a patient with acute or chronic gastrointestinal clinical signs.
- The attendee will learn how bedside point-of-care Bulk Acoustic Wave (BAW) blood testing can rapidly determine cobalamin, folate, cortisol and cPL values in their clinically ill gastrointestinal patients.
- The attendee will learn how to utilize the results of cobalamin, folate, cortisol, TLI and cPL assay results in their treatment of appropriate gastrointestinal disorders.
This course is RACE-approved for 1.0 continuing education credits hours in jurisdictions that accept RACE-approval.
This activity is sponsored by Zomedica.