What is the Sustainable Anaesthesia Course?

The Sustainable Anaesthesia Course provides a practical approach to improving your knowledge and skills in veterinary anaesthesia, enhancing the quality of care for your patients, and reducing the environmental impacts of volatile anaesthetic usage.

What’s covered in the course?

In this introductory course, we explore sustainable anaesthesia, the equipment needed for low-flow anaesthesia, and planning and selecting premeds. We’ll then look at setting up and running low-flow anaesthesia for your cases and troubleshooting common challenges. Finally, we’ll explore how to implement new protocols and manage change within your practice.

Why sustainable anaesthesia?

Delivering our Better World Pledge

Inhalation anaesthetic gases account for 11% of our operational carbon footprint (the carbon in our control) across the whole of the Pets at Home business and if we remove electricity impact (scope 2) from that it’s 27% of our operational footprint. Reducing the volume of volatile anaesthetics is one of the easiest ways to make a tangible impact on reducing the environmental carbon impact of your practice.

What’s next?

Sign up for the Sustainable Anaesthesia Course now to develop your skills around low-flow anaesthesia. The program will develop with several courses over the next three years to build into a comprehensive resource around many areas of anaesthesia practice, from low-flow anaesthesia teaching and mentoring.
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List of lessons in this course

    1. 1 - Why is sustainability important for us in anaesthesia?

    2. 2 - Introduction to pre-meds

    3. 3 - Equipment

    4. 4 - Which cases to use low flow on

    5. 5 - Getting set up and running low-flow cases

    6. 6 - Monitoring with capnography

    7. 7 - Challenges and how we’ll manage them

    8. 8 - Sixty-second summary videos of how to set up for low flow

    9. 9 - Change management - how to take low-flow anaesthesia and implement in your practice

    10. 10 - What to do next?

    11. 11 - Course Wrap Up

Course summary

  • Free
  • 11 lessons
  • 1.5 hours of video content

FAQs

Got questions?

  • How long is the course?

    The Introduction to Low-flow Anaesthesia course is approximately an hour in duration.

  • Will the course come out of my CPD budget?

    The course is entirely free to access and won’t affect your CPD budget.

  • Will I get a CPD certificate?

    Yes, you’ll get a CPD certificate for completing the course, which you can download.

  • Is the course for vets or vet nurses?

    The course is designed for both vet nurses and vets to give a practical approach to sustainable anaesthesia.

  • Is the whole course available now?

    The content will drop in over the next few weeks with all content available for the ‘introduction’ course by mid August.

  • What comes after the introduction course?

    The second part of our course will launch in Jan 2024. This will be a more in-depth look at some of the advance techniques which can be used and will cover things like local anaesthesia, advanced capnography, using anaesthestic sparing infusions, and mentoring and supporting traines during anaesthesia training.

  • How do I know what my practices anaesthetic carbon footprint is and whether it is reducing?

    Access the new Vets For Pets anaesthesia carbon dashboard:

  • I heard I will be able to access support from Vet CT’s teleconsulting anaesthesia team. How do I do that?

    Only teams who have had a colleague complete the ambassador course can access this support. Full details are provided on completion of the course.

  • Where can I find out more about the wider support available on the sustainable anaesthesia initiative for Vets For Pets?

    You can access more details on the whole initiative here:

Meet your instructor

Toby Trimble

RCVS Specialist in Veterinary Anaesthesia & Analgesia

Toby completed his residency at Glasgow vet school and has worked in university and private referral hospitals. He is passionate about teaching and making anaesthesia practical and has developed the course in collaboration with the clinical teams at Vets4Pets. His interests are sustainability, locoregional anaesthesia and sedation in dogs and cats. Post nomials: BVM BVS, BVMedSci, MVM, PG Cert, Dip. ECVAA RCVS Specialist in Veterinary Anaesthesia and Analgesia