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Schedule - Friday 11th October

VICAS

CAVI

Equine

Social Events/Exhibition

Joint sessions

Friday 11th October

VICAS Dry Labs
INEC

TimeSessionSpeaker
10:00 - 10.30
Registration
10:30 - 13.00
CPR

Georgina Murphy

13.00 - 13.30
Lunch

CAVI Wet Labs
A Mark O'Leary Killarney
B John and Catherine Fleming

TimeSessionSpeaker
10:00 - 10.30
Registration
10:30 - 13.00
A Lameness / B Calf housing A1 Locomotion Scoring and risk factor management and A2 Practical demonstration of hoof care/ B1 Assessing the calf's environment and B2 Assessing passive transfer and colostrum quality

A1 Ger Cusack  A2 Jarlath Sutton / B1 Benjamin Barber B2 Hannah Batty

13:00 - 13.30
Lunch

Equine Wet Labs
Holmoak Stables

TimeSessionSpeakerSponsor
10:00 - 10.30
Registration
10:30 - 13.00
Group 1: Lameness- basic approach for the Field Vet. Nerve Blocks used to Diagnose Common Lamenesses.

Fernando Garcia Seeber
10:30 - 13.00
Group 2: Demonstration 5 Stage Soundness Examination. Discussion, Soundness Quiz.

Ned O'Flynn and Tim Brazil
13:00 - 13.30
Lunch

VICAS, CAVI, Equine

TimeVenue
13:30 - 14.20
Registration & Exhibition
14.20 - 14.30
Opening Address

Hazell Mullins, President, Veterinary Ireland

VICAS

TimeSessionSpeaker
14.30 - 15.30
Case based interactive session on a variety of surgery cases

Jerry O'Riordan

CAVI

TimeSessionSpeaker
14.30 - 15.00
Counting the Calves – an insight into calf health in dairy herds

Elizabeth Lane

15.00 - 15.30
Calf mortality - the postmortem findings

Denise Murphy

EQUINE

TimeSessionSpeaker
14.30 - 15.30
Answers to Soundness Quiz, Soundness Tips.

Ned O'Flynn
TimeSession
15.30 - 16.00
AFTERNOON BREAK (VICAS, CAVI)
15.30 - 15.45
AFTERNOON BREAK (EQUINE)

VICAS

TimeSessionSpeaker
16.00 - 17.00
Urinary Surgery

Jerry O'Riordan

CAVI

TimeSessionSpeaker
16.00 - 16.45
Managing the neonatal calf to maximise survivability

George Stilwell

EQUINE

TimeSessionSpeaker
15.45 - 16.45
VDS Perspective on the Pitfalls in Vetting

Tim Brazil

VICAS

TimeSessionSpeaker
17.00 - 17.30
Non-Surgical Fractures

Jerry O'Riordan

EQUINE

TimeSessionSpeaker
16.45 - 17.45
The Coughing Horse

Siobhan McAuliffe

CAVI

TimeSessionSpeaker
16.45 - 17.30
Beef from Dairy: The Calf Rearer Perspective

Benjamin Barber

SOCIAL EVENT

TimeSessionVenueSponsor
19.00 - Late
Social event

The Backstage Bar, INEC

CAVI sessions sponsored by

Programme subject to change at committees' discretion