Knowledge Lab

Session Description:

Join us for this webinar to learn how to enhance anesthesia management and improve patient outcomes, while positively impacting your practice. Veterinary anesthesiologist Dr. Khursheed Mama will provide insights on using peri-anesthetic lab assessments to guide patient care from pre-anesthesia to recovery. Using real-life cases from dogs and cats, Dr. Mama will demonstrate how in-house diagnostics can help select medications, monitoring tools, and supportive measures to achieve better patient outcomes. 

Learning objectives — leveraging in-house laboratory diagnostics:  

• Understand how to apply the results to improve peri-anesthetic patient management
• Use appropriate support (e.g., fluid therapy) and monitoring  (e.g., ECG) equipment
• Select appropriate anesthetic and adjunctive (e.g., anti-emetic) drugs  

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Khursheed Mama, DVM, DACVAA

Dr. Mama received her DVM in 1989 from Washington State University and then completed a large animal rotating internship at the University of Guelph. This along with her experiences during her senior year in veterinary school confirmed a passion of anesthesia. She pursued an anesthesia and critical care residency at the University of California-Davis and following its completion in 1993, chose to stay and work at UC Davis for 3 years before moving to Colorado State University where she has been a faculty member since 1996. She enjoys managing a diverse variety of species while also teaching DVM and graduate students and has pursued research interests directed at improving patient care and safety. She feels fortunate that as part of her job she has had the opportunity to advance anesthesia and pain management through continuing education for veterinarians in many different venues both nationally and internationally.