Oral and Injectable Pre-Euthanasia Sedation for Reactive and Calm Patients—For a More Relaxed Experience for Everybody Involved

Dr. Celine Leheurteux is a graduate of the faculty of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Montreal in 1999, and in the practice of small animals. Like many veterinarians, she has euthanized thousands of animals. Having suffered from the lack of training in euthanasia, she is committed to share her knowledge and clinical experience with veterinary teams to improve the experience of euthanasia for everyone involved in the process. Recently, she attended several international veterinary conferences and is on a mission to share the best of what she has learned on end-of-life care and communication in practice. She is also completed the CAETA training in 2019 given by Dr Kathy Cooney, an international expert in veterinary end-of-life care.

Dr. Leheuteux focuses on how to structure the customer approach and promote the veterinary team's wellbeing. Training teams on how to map the euthanasia experience, properly sedate patients, use safer alternate routes of providing medication and educate how to express empathy and deliver bad news; all potential sources of stress for families and veterinary teams.

Dr Leheurteux is also the designer of the veterinary pet body bag EUTHABAG used in 25 countries and 12 veterinary schools. Over 1M of them have been sold since its launch in 2016.