DAY 01 | 20 February DAY 02 (half day)| 21 February
08:30 Registration
09:00 Welcome - Dr. Kgasi President of SAVC
09:20 Welcome - The Illustrious Past of Equine Practice in South Africa
- Gareth Bath Veterinary History Society
09:40 Trade Introduction Session
10:15 Basic Approach to Lameness Evaluation - Evita Busschers
Parallel: DIC as a rare complication of Piroplasmosis - Diane Fisher
10:45 Common Diseases of the Lower Limb - Evita Busschers
Parallel: Overview of General Anaesthesia - Lynette Bester
11:30 Tea
12:00 Intra-articular and Systemic Medication for Osteoarthritis
- Evita Busschers
Parallel: Monitoring Pitfalls in General Anaesthesia - Lynette Bester
12:45 Conservative and Innovative Treatment for Desmitis - Evita Busschers
Parallel: Prevalence of Radiographic Changes in South African
endurance racehorses - Elza Hollenbach
13:15 South Africa: Review & Outlook - Living with Uncertainty
- Nicky Walmar
Parallel: Review of Dental Pathology - Nicole Du Toit
14:00 Lunch
15:00 Upper and Lower Airway Emergencies - Pamela Wilkins
Parallel: Radiography and Imaging for Dental Pathology
- Nicole Du Toit
15:50 Equine Thoracic Trauma - Pamela Wilkins
Parallel: Latest Techniques in Equine Dentistry - Nicole Du Toit
16:45 Tea
17:15 AGM
18:15 Cocktail 08:30 Cardiovascular Problems in Horses - Pamela Wilkins
Parallel: Biosecurity and Stable Disinfection - Glynn Catton
09:25 Renal Disease - Pamela Wilkins
Parallel: Reading the bones. Using our knowledge of equine anatomy
to get more fun out of a bush walk in BIG FIVE territory - Karl van
Laeren
10:15 Tea
10:45 West Nile Virus in Equines in South Africa - Marietjie Venter
Parallel: Basic Overview of Clinical Pathology Parameters
- when to be concerned - Lynette Bester
11:30 African Horse Sickness Vaccinations - Fact and Fiction - Camilla Weyer
Parallel: Anaesthetic Recovery - can we do better? - Lynette Bester
Parallel: Critical Foal Anaesthetic - Lynette Bester
12:15 The occurance of the natural substance Synephrin - Schalk De Kock
Parallel: Equine Intestinal Hyperammonaemia: clinical aspects
- Diane Fisher
12:45 Lunch
13:45 Insurance - Beast or Benefactor
Parallel: GOLF
14:30 Insurance - Beast or Benefactor
15:15 Tea
16:00 Kruger National Park Walk
17:30 Braai
DAY 03 | 22 February DAY 04 (half day) | 23 February
08:30 Prognostic Indicators for the Survival of Critically Ill Neonatal
Foals - Pamela Wilkins
09:30 Common Problems of the Equine Neonate - Pamela Wilkins
10:30 South African Veterinary Foundation
10:45 Tea
11:00 Trade
11:15 SIRS ans Sepsis in Adult Horses and Foals - Pamela Wilkins
Parallel: Putative Otobius megnini-associated Clinical Signs in
horses in South Africa - Sean Miller
Parallel: Tetanus in Equids: A single centre report of 33 cases in
2018 - Felipe Correa
Parallel: A review on Rhodococcus equi infection in foals: etiology,
diagnostic tests, treatment options and potential future direction -
Eva-Christina Schliewert
12:05 Clinical use of Lactate - Pamela Wilkins
12:50 Lunch
13:50 Basic Principles of Surgery - Evita Busschers
Parallel: Application of a Smartphone Modulated ECG Device for
use in Equines - Graeme Piketh
14:35 Castration Complications - Evita Busschers
Parallel: Poor performance, collapse and Sudden Death
- the impact of Cardiac Arrythmias - Christina Eberhardt
15:15 Complications after Rectal Examination - Evita Busschers
Parallel: Evaluation and Diagnostic Approach to Structural Heart
Disease - Christina Eberhardt
15:35 Tea
16:05 Distal Limb Wounds - Evita Busschers
19:25 Gala dinner 08:30 Assessment of Common Back and Pelvis Problems - Evita Busschers
Parallel: Serum Amyloid A - Eva-Christina Schliewert
09:00 Back Pain vs Lameness vs Bad Behaviour - Evita Busschers
Parallel: Sedation for Standing Surgery - Lynette Bester
09:45 Back Rehabilitation - Evita Busschers
Parallel: Monitoring Pitfalls in Standing Surgery - Lynette Bester
10:15 Relevancy of the current AHS vaccine and future vaccine development -
Otto Koekemoer
10:35 Tea
11:00 The importance of a Holistic Approach to Rehabilitation Programs
- Evita Busschers
Parallel: Passports Unravelled - Legal documents - Sheelagh Higgerty
Parallel: How to: Equine Limb Radiographs - Dave Goodrow
11:30 Physical Therapies for Joint Disease - Evita Busschers
12:00 Fracture Management - Evita Busschers
12:30 Radiology Quiz - Nicolene Hoepner
13:15 Lunch