RACE APPROVED FOR VET TECHS & VETS (1.0 CE HOURS)
Feline Fine: Taking the Fear out of Anesthetizing Felines Patients (RACE 1.0 CEU)
Cats walk a fine line between stable and unstable, awake and asleep. This lecture will review and discuss feline anesthetic and analgesic protocols, tips and tricks for intra-operative care, and troubleshooting common issues.
RACE 1.0 Hours for Vet Techs & Vets
RACE Program #: 20-1237898
RACE Provider #: 50-36598
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Meet the Instructor
Kristen Cooley BA, CVT, VTS (A/A), VCC
Kristen Cooley is a Veterinary Technician Specialist in Anesthesia and Analgesia as well as a certified Veterinary Cannabis Counselor. She spent over 15 years at the University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine where she honed her passion and skill for anesthesia and pain management through managing routine and critical anesthetic cases and teaching in the DVM curriculum.
Currently, Kristen is the founder and CEO of the Wisconsin-based anesthesia consulting business, Veterinary Anesthesia Support and Training (VAST), where she helps clinics improve their practice of anesthesia and pain management through expert instruction and in-clinic training. Kristen also spends time in Colorado Springs providing relief anesthesia services for PEAK Veterinary Anesthesia Services, a sister consulting company (www.PEAKvas.com).
For those interested in more anesthesia (everyone, right?) Kristen along with colleague and friend, Kim Spelts, has created a 10 hour online foundational anesthesia training
Currently, Kristen is the founder and CEO of the Wisconsin-based anesthesia consulting business, Veterinary Anesthesia Support and Training (VAST), where she helps clinics improve their practice of anesthesia and pain management through expert instruction and in-clinic training. Kristen also spends time in Colorado Springs providing relief anesthesia services for PEAK Veterinary Anesthesia Services, a sister consulting company (www.PEAKvas.com).
For those interested in more anesthesia (everyone, right?) Kristen along with colleague and friend, Kim Spelts, has created a 10 hour online foundational anesthesia training
program suitable for everyone from technician students to veterinarians looking to brush up on anesthesia and pain management. Visit www.peakvas.com for more information.
She is currently employed at Wisconsin Veterinary Referral
She is currently employed at Wisconsin Veterinary Referral
Center in Waukesha, Wisconsin as part of the anesthesia team. Her skills reach far and wide and include anesthetizing production animals (cattle and chickens most frequently), shelter pets, and providing expert care for street dogs and
indigenously owned pets in under-developed countries like Ecuador and Peru.
In addition, she spends time she does not really have nursing injured chickens, squirrels, and pigeons back to health and hand feeding orphaned squabs (baby pigeons). She is
In addition, she spends time she does not really have nursing injured chickens, squirrels, and pigeons back to health and hand feeding orphaned squabs (baby pigeons). She is
affectionately known as ‘The Pigeon Lady’. Kristen is a published editor, author, and illustrator of anesthesia-related textbooks as well as an internationally recognized and frequently sought-after speaker and award- winning instructor. She lives in Madison, Wisconsin with her family.
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