Advanced neurosurgery and brain level III

A one-day advanced practical course teaching advanced skills and techniques surrounding brain surgery and skull reconstruction

Agenda overview:

• Ventriculoperitoneal shunt placement
• Various approaches to the skull:
• Transfrontal, rostrotentorial, suboccipital combined
• Skull reconstruction
• Varying spinal approaches
  

Course Objectives

• Introduce course participants to various techniques related to intracranial surgery for small animals
  
• Provide indications and management of various intracranial pathologies encountered as they relate to veterinary neurology and neurology 
• Identify various approaches to the brain for diagnosis and treatment of brain disease
• Participants will be able to perform various intracranial procedures for treatment of brain disease in small animals

Faculty:

• Karl Kraus DVM, MS (Surg) DACVS
• Peter Early DVM, DACVIM
• Robert Bergman DVM, MS, DACVIM
• Sean Sanders DVM, Phd. DACVIM