The most complete and up-to-date program in Equine Hospitalization for Digestive and Hepatic Problems in the online educational market”

This postgraduate diploma 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, in the first section of the program, 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. 

It is very common that during the hospitalization of equine patients complications appear in the evolution of the pathological process being treated, so it is essential to identiy these complications quickly and implement appropriate treatments for a satisfactory outcome.

The doctor's ability to respond in critical situations during the hospitalization of equine patients will be essential for the prognosis of the pathological process and even crucial for survival, since when these complications are potentially fatal, such as a laryngeal collapse or post-castration eventration, the doctor's actions will be very important. 

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 Hospitalization for Digestive and Hepatic Problems 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 training 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 train 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 veterinarian 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
• Develop specialized knowledge of the hospital care of the different surgical patients studied
• Determine the applied surgical techniques and diagnostic imaging techniques for the treatment of inpatient emergencies
• Establish medical treatment and post-surgical protocols for each hospitalized equine patient depending on the pathology
• Identify complications during the evolution of equine patients and provide appropriate therapies for them

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. Digestive and Hepatic Problems in Hospitalized Patients

• 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

Module 3. Surgical Patient Hospital Care and Emergency Hospital Procedures

• Select, with updated scientific criteria, the best treatments for wounds that heal by second intention, monitoring their evolution and considering the most serious complications of the healing process in order to elaborate adequate treatment plans
• Demonstrate extensive use of new therapies, such as laser or ozone, in the wound healing process
• Be specialized in the technique of venography and demonstrate mastery of it both for the diagnosis of pathologies in hoofs and for monitoring the evolution of laminitis
• Demonstrate a thorough knowledge of techniques and medications for the management of chronic pain in laminitis and other pathologies
• Determine when to use synovial needle lavage and when to use arthroscopy, using up-to-date knowledge of synovial fluid monitoring and imaging methods
• Develop optimal rehabilitation plans for angular or flexural deformities
• Demonstrate a biomechanical knowledge of the shoeing techniques used in the pathologies studied in this module
• Determine how and when to perform an emergency tracheostomy, and how to carry out aftercare
• Examine how to adapt abdominal dressings and bandages to the status of the post-surgical incision for acute abdominal syndrome
• Operate post-surgical incisions in both open and closed castration, proposing different rehabilitation plans according to the procedure
• Manage the post-surgical incision of a phalloectomy and determine when to remove the urethral catheter

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