$14.95 inc GST
Snail bait toxicity is common wherever gardeners battle slugs and snails, and early treatment often means a good outcome. Jess Male helps you recognise which bait a patient has eaten and what that patient needs, from the owner’s first phone call.
Includes the full recording (48 minutes), the presentation slides as a PDF, and a quiz. Pass the quiz to receive a certificate worth 1 AVNAT point.
The right treatment for snail bait toxicity depends on the bait. This webinar shows you how to tell them apart and what to do for each.
You’ll learn the types of snail bait (metaldehyde, carbamates and organophosphates, and iron EDTA) and how little it takes to cause toxicity. You’ll then cover the pathophysiology of metaldehyde, including its breakdown to acetaldehyde, enterohepatic circulation and its effects on GABA, serotonin and norepinephrine, and of carbamates and organophosphates, which inhibit acetylcholinesterase and overstimulate muscarinic and nicotinic receptors.
Following the case of ‘Maggie’, a Boxer found shaking at home, you’ll work through the clinical signs of each type including the SLUD signs, advice to owners on the phone, what to prepare before the patient arrives, diagnosis and treatment: emesis or gastric lavage and enema, activated charcoal, an osmotic cathartic, IV fluids, active cooling, methocarbamol, diazepam, atropine, pralidoxime (2-PAM), liver support and propofol. It finishes with nursing and monitoring after a general anaesthetic.
Presented by Jess Male, RVN, AVN, DipVN (ECC), RN, BSc (Biological & Biomedical), TAA.
What’s included
- Full recording (48 minutes)
- Presentation slides as a PDF
- Quiz, with a certificate worth 1 AVNAT point when you pass
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