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Karen Roach, RVT, VTS (ECC), a training mentor at Mount Laurel Animal Hospital in New Jersey, has a keen interest in veterinary emergency and critical care. She will be presenting and co-presenting multiple educational sessions at dvm360’s 2024 Fetch Coastal conference.

Fetch Coastal is being held October 14-16, 2024, at the Atlantic City Convention Center in New Jersey. For more information and to register as an attendee, visit the conference website.

In an interview with dvm360, Roach discussed the topics she is scheduled to present on Monday, October 14, 2024. Among those topics are diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA), pain management, triage, transfusion medicine, and Kirby’s Rule of 20.

The following is a transcript of this video:

Karen Roach, RVT, VTS (ECC): I just love a good DKA case, which is diabetic ketoacidosis, and they're just very challenging cases. There's a lot of balancing that has to go on. There's a lot of IV fluid pumps and syringe pumps and a lot of stuff like that, but they're just so rewarding when you get those patients through. So I love to talk about it.

I'm doing a talk on pain management specifically for emergency and critical care patients, and within that, I also talk about treating stress and anxiety in our patients, because that's also very important. If they're stressed and painful, you got to treat both of those things.

I'm also doing a talk on triage and another one on transfusion medicine. And then I'm actually doing a combo talk with Andrea Pace, [CVT, VTS (ECC)] who works here at Mount Laurel [Animal Hospital]. We are doing a talk together on Kirby's Rule of 20 from the [emergency department] to treatment. That's a way of treating critical patients based on these 20 points that a critical care doctor came up with quite a few years ago.

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