The most complete and up-to-date program in Equine Cardiorespiratory Hospital Medicine in the online educational market"

This program 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.

The second part of the program delves into the recognition of cardiac pathologies, ranging from a focused clinical examination to a detailed management of the most commonly used diagnostic tests, as well as their correct interpretation. This will allow a quick assessment of horses that require emergency care. Electrocardiography, and vascular ultrasound are essential for carrying out the definitive diagnosis.

This program contains a section dedicated to an extensive explanation of the main cardiac pathologies that can be found in horses that are hospitalized, in order to establish an adequate clinical relevance, as well as the main cardiac pathologies that may reappear in the hospitalized horse, mainly in critical patients, such as arrhythmias, myocarditis, pericarditis and endocarditis. 

Join the elite, with this highly effective educational training and open new paths to help you advance in your professional progress"

This postgraduate diploma in Equine Cardiorespiratory Hospital Medicine 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
• A highly visual teaching system, supported by graphic and schematic contents that are 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 educational program that will allow you to acquire the most advanced knowledge in all the areas of intervention of the equine veterinarian"

TECH 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 educational approach"

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 course of other primary pathologies
• Examine analytical interpretation: blood count, serum biochemistry and blood gas analysis
• Establish an appropriate methodology for examination of horses with heart disease 
• Identify all clinical signs associated with cardiovascular disease and determine clinical relevance
• Determine the specific clinical approach to horses with a cardiovascular condition 
• Generate specialized knowledge on the management of critical horses complicated by cardiovascular problems 
• Interpret the clinical signs shown by patients with respiratory conditions and learn to classify them according to their clinical relevance
• Establish a protocol of specific diagnostic tests and further understand their interpretation to establish the exact location and severity of pathologies
• Analyze the advantages of diagnostic methods that can be performed in hospitals as opposed to field clinics
• Present the latest advances in the treatment of both upper and lower airway pathologies
• Compile guidelines for management, monitoring and treatment of hospitalized respiratory patients

Specific Objectives

Module 1. Introduction to Hospital Medicine

• 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

Module 2. Cardiac Pathologies in Hospitalized Patients

• Specify the information needed in the clinical examination of horses with heart disease
• Propose a diagnostic methodology for patients with a murmur or arrhythmias
• Delve into advanced critical patient monitoring techniques 
• Identify cardiac disorders requiring emergency treatment
• Detail the action mechanisms of cardiovascular medication
• Establish cardiopulmonary resuscitation protocol
• Examine in depth all the most common pathologies in horses
• Identify cardiac complications in hospitalized horses in order to establish early treatment
• Establish the clinical management of the critically ill patient due to heart failure or shock
• Provide adequate management of vascular conditions

Module 3. Respiratory Pathologies in Hospitalized Patients

• Specify the necessary and relevant information in the clinical examination of respiratory patients
• Develop in depth the complementary diagnostic methods available in a hospital and their clinical relevance
• Perform an updated review of upper tract pathologies, their diagnosis and treatment
• Develop the usefulness of bronchoalveolar lavage, tracheal aspirate and stress test in the evaluation of lower airway inflammation and its clinical implications
• Present an updated review of infectious diseases of the respiratory system and their treatment
• Provide guidelines for monitoring and treating respiratory patients in hospital
• Detail the procedures to be performed in the evaluation of a horse's sporting performance, associating them to their clinical relevance

A unique specialization program that will allow you to acquire advanced training in this field"