The most complete and up-to-date program in Digestive and Hepatic Problems in Hospitalized Equine Patients on the online educational market"

This postgraduate certificate lays the foundations for a specialization in Equine Hospital Medicine. It defines the logistics and clinical strategy required in a hospital for horses. It addresses various topics, extremely necessary in order to acquire a global idea of how an equine hospital works and to consider the hospitalization of any patient regardless of their main pathology.

It describes the layout of the different facilities and establishes the necessary guidelines for the cleaning and disinfection of different areas in relation to their degree of contamination by the patients treated in each one. Develop specialized knowledge on advanced pharmacology for hospitalized patients. This program establishes the ideal pharmacological guidelines, antibiotherapy and multimodal analgesia applicable to each patient depending on their severity, which differs greatly from the approach used in field clinics.

Due to the severity of the clinical symptoms presented by most hospitalized patients, it is necessary to establish specific guidelines for fluid therapy and nutrition according to the stabilization requirements and metabolic needs of each patient.

Finally, the interpretation of blood count, serum biochemistry and blood gas analysis are discussed as it is very important to establish the severity of hospitalized patients. These diagnostic methods will also be key to monitoring the patients during the hospitalization period. 

In this postgraduate certificate, you will delve into the symptoms of digestive origin, disorders that can appear with varied symptoms and evolution, and can represent a real challenge in terms of stabilization and treatment of patients. Therefore, the approach to these problems must come from a highly qualified professional, with lines of treatment based on scientific grounds and constantly updated. Thus, working protocols will be established for the maintenance of hospitalized patients with special requirements in terms of monitoring and intensive treatment.

Join the elite with this highly effective training and pave new ways toward professional advancement”

This postgraduate certificate in Digestive and Hepatic Problems in Hospitalized Equine Patients contains the most complete and up-to-date scientific program on the market. The most important features include:

• The latest technology in online teaching software
• Intensely visual teaching system, supported by graphic and schematic contents, easy to assimilate and understand 
• Practical cases presented by practising experts
• State-of-the-art interactive video systems
• Teaching supported by telepractice 
• Continuous updating and recycling systems
• Autonomous learning: full compatibility with other occupations
• Practical exercises for self-evaluation and learning verification
• Support groups and educational synergies: questions to the expert, debate and knowledge forums
• Communication with the teacher and individual reflection work
• Content that is accessible from any fixed or portable device with an Internet connection
• Supplementary documentation databases are permanently available, even after the course

A complete program that will allow you to acquire the most advanced knowledge in all the areas of intervention of the Equine Veterinarian"

TECH's teaching staff is made up of professionals from different fields related to this specialty. In this way TECH ensures that it delivers the educational up-to-date objectives that it aims for. A multidisciplinary team of professionals, experienced in different fields, will develop the theoretical knowledge in an efficient manner, but, above all, will provide students with practical knowledge based on their own experience: one of the differential qualities of this program.

This mastery of the subject matter is complemented by the effectiveness of the methodological design. Developed by a multidisciplinary team of e-Learning experts, it integrates the latest advances in educational technology. This way, you will be able to study with a range of comfortable and versatile multimedia tools that will give you the operability you need during the program. 

The design of this scientific program is based on Problem-Based Learning: an approach that views learning as a highly practical process. To achieve this remotely, telepractice will be used: with the help of an innovative interactive video system and Learning from an Expert, students will be able to acquire knowledge and skills as if they were facing the scenario they are learning at that moment. A concept that will make it possible to integrate and fix learning in a more realistic and permanent way.

With the experience of working professionals and the analysis of real success stories, in a high-impact program"

With a methodological design based on proven teaching techniques, this innovative course will take you through different teaching approaches to allow you to learn in a dynamic and effective way"

The objective is to prepare highly qualified professionals for work experience. An objective that is complemented, moreover, in a global manner, by promoting human development that lays the foundations for a better society. This objective is materialized in helping professionals to reach a much higher level of competence and control. A goal that, in just a few months, can be achieved with high intensity and effective instruction.

If your objective is to broaden your skillset to open up new roads to success and development, this is the place for you: a program that aspires to excellence"

General Objectives

• Organize and design an equine hospital for optimal clinical and logistical performance for patients of varying severity
• Offer specialized knowledge on hospital pharmacology in detail, so that an equine hospital is properly equipped with the necessary medication for medical therapies for common pathologies, and ICU, resuscitation, and supportive care therapies
• Establish fluid therapy, plasma therapy, and nutrition of hospitalized patients
• Delve into the most common pathologies of the hematopoietic and immune systems that may appear, or develop, in a hospital during the treatment of other primary pathologies
• Examine analytical interpretation: blood count, serum biochemistry and blood gas analysis
• Expand knowledge of diseases affecting the digestive tract from the stomach to the rectum, assessing the stage of the different presentations and further understanding the needs for critical care
• Teach the doctor how to correctly assess the animal's systemic state and the consequent severity of the pathology, as well as the tools available for its monitoring
• Establish digestive and hepatic diagnostic protocols with the objective of generating optimized treatments and prognoses
• Develop a global understanding of endotoxemia in horses and therapeutic measures aimed at its clinical management
• Expand knowledge of the pathophysiological mechanism of laminitis caused by endotoxemia and a carbohydrate overload
• Generate specialized knowledge in enteral and parenteral nutrition available to the hospitalized patient

Specific Objectives

• Examine, in detail, the facilities required in an equine hospital
• Define the protocols for action and disinfection in an equine hospital
• Establish guidelines to be followed for infectious animals, as well as the different protocols depending on the degree of infection
• Develop specific pharmacological guidelines and protocols according to the most frequent pathologies in equines
• Establish multimodal analgesia protocols in equids and how to establish pain monitoring in the equine patient
• Classify patients according to their severity when they are hospitalized
• Analyze appropriate maintenance therapies in most hospitalized patients, with emphasis on fluid therapy and water and electrolyte imbalances that may arise during the course of these therapies
• Maintain the correct metabolic status of patients through nutritional control, according to their circumstances
• Develop the pathologies of the hematopoietic and immune systems by developing existing diagnostic methods and appropriate therapies in each case
• Correctly interpret blood analysis, serum biochemistry and blood gases in all types of pathologies and the most common alterations in each of them
• Develop advanced general examination procedures, as well as diagnostic tests such as abdominocentesis, glucose absorption test, endoscopy, interpretation of analytical tests and diagnostic imaging
• Expand knowledge of critical care patient monitoring
• Generate knowledge on the most advanced lines of treatment for hospitalized patients with digestive pathology
• Examine, in depth, the infectious and parasitic diseases affecting the digestive tract, as well as their various treatments
• Teach the veterinarian how to prevent secondary complications derived from digestive pathology
• Identify clinical signs associated with endotoxemia and endotoxic shock in horses
• Cover the neoplastic diseases that affect the digestive tract, as well as their various treatments
• Cover equine liver and biliary tract diseases and their possible treatments
• Determine specific action protocols for patients with laminitis due to endotoxemia or carbohydrate overloading.
• Establish protocols for enteral and parenteral feeding in hospitalized patients

A path to achieve training and professional growth that will propel you towards a greater level of competitiveness in the employment market"