Individual Courses and Comprehensive Study Program
The ESAVS Emergency and Critical Care program consists of 7 one-week modules.
Emergency Medicine I: Basic Emergency Principles
This module provides advanced foundational training in veterinary emergency medicine, focusing on rapid patient assessment, stabilization, emergency diagnostics, resuscitation, emergency procedures, and analgesia/anesthesia principles in critically ill patients. The module emphasizes evidence-based clinical reasoning, procedural competence, and team-based emergency management.
Emergency Medicine II: Respiratory and Cardio-vascular Emergencies
This module provides advanced postgraduate training in the recognition, diagnosis, stabilization, and management of respiratory and cardiovascular emergencies in small animal patients. The course emphasizes evidence-based emergency decision-making, interpretation of emergency diagnostics, advanced stabilization strategies, transfusion medicine, point-of-care ultrasound, and management of acute electrolyte and perfusion disorders.
Emergency Medicine III: Trauma, Abdominal and Neurological Emergencies
This module provides advanced postgraduate training in the recognition, diagnosis, stabilization, and management of abdominal, traumatic, and neurological emergencies in small animal patients. Emphasis is placed on emergency diagnostic work-up, imaging interpretation, trauma stabilization, neurological assessment, and evidence-based emergency decision-making in critically ill patients.
Emergency Medicine IV: Internal Medicine
This module provides advanced postgraduate training in the recognition, diagnosis, stabilization, and management of endocrine, renal, hematologic, toxicologic, and selected dermatologic emergencies in small animal patients. The course emphasizes evidence-based emergency medicine, electrolyte and acid–base disturbances, emergency stabilization, and clinical decision-making in complex internal medicine emergencies.
Emergency Medicine V: Ophthalmological, Reproductive, Small Mammal Emergencies and Abdominal Surgery
This module provides advanced postgraduate training in the recognition, diagnosis, stabilization, and emergency management of ophthalmological, reproductive, surgical, environmental, and small mammal emergencies in veterinary patients. The course emphasizes practical emergency assessment, perioperative stabilization, emergency surgical principles, neonatal and pediatric emergency care, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, wound management, and evidence-based clinical decision-making in emergency and critical care medicine.
Critical Care Medicine I: Basic ICU Principles
This module provides advanced postgraduate training in the principles of intensive care medicine in small animal patients. The course focuses on intensive care unit (ICU) organization, advanced fluid therapy, sepsis management, nutritional support, respiratory and cardiovascular monitoring, and practical intensive care procedures. Emphasis is placed on evidence-based critical care medicine, patient monitoring, clinical reasoning, and hands-on ICU skills relevant to the management of critically ill veterinary patients.
Critical Care Medicine II: Advanced
This module provides advanced postgraduate training in respiratory critical care, mechanical ventilation, coagulation disorders, intensive care pharmacology, and infection control in critically ill veterinary patients. The course emphasizes evidence-based intensive care medicine, arterial blood gas interpretation, ventilator management, respiratory monitoring, coagulation assessment, and ICU patient stabilization. Practical training in mechanical ventilation, clinical reasoning, and multidisciplinary ICU management is integrated with interactive case discussions and hands-on laboratory sessions to support specialist-level decision-making in veterinary critical care medicine.










