GiGI Cases - A Complete Transit of the Gastrointestinal Tract - 01 OCTOBER 2025

Via interactive lectures, solidify your knowledge on the complexities of the "third brain" (the gastrointestinal system). During this one-day course we will discuss chronic enteropathies in cats and dogs, dive into the microbiome, gulp down dysphagia, poke the pancreas and settle the stomach with gastroprotectants. A complete transit of the gastrointestinal tract! 

Lunch and refreshments provided.

Course Description

·       Chronic enteropathy and small cell lymphoma in cats. Henry Cloete

·       Approach to acute and chronic diarrhoea in dogs. When is endoscopy useful? James Barton

·       The microbiome and faecal microbiota transplantation. What is value is transpoosion? PJ Noble and Luke Woodward

·       Pancreatitis and the importance of enteral feeding. Conor Moloney

·       When food won't go down. Oesophageal disease and aerodigestive disorder. Kaitlin Turnbull 

·       Gastroprotectants (when to use and when not to use). Erin O'Connell

 

Learning Outcomes:

• Apply a logical and systematic approach to the diagnosis and management of acute and chronic diarrhoea in dogs, chronic enteropathies in cats, pancreatitis and oesophageal disorders.

• Learn when and how to do a faecal microbiota transplant. 

• Differentiate when it is and when it is not appropriate to use a protein-pump inhibitor.

 

Speakers

Briony Alderson BVSc CertVA DipECVAA MRCVS RCVS Specialist in Veterinary Anaesthesia and EBVS European Specialist in Veterinary Anaesthesia

Filipe Lalanda Madruga Lecturer in Small Animal Anaesthesia

 

This workshop is suitable for vets in first opinion practice or those studying for an RCVS CertAVP in small animal medicine.