FECAVA Newsletter – October 2020

Editorial FECAVA is launching a new campaign entitled “FECAVA Basic Practices in Anesthesia and Analgesia” with a series of important initiatives set to hit Europe in the next 12 months. The campaign should culminate with a series of presentations for the FECAVA Special Symposium during 27th FECAVA Euro Congress to be held in Prague, Czech Republic, between September 8-11th, 2021. Dr. Polly Taylor, European Specialist in Veterinary Anaesthesia and Analgesia from the United Kingdom, and Dr. Paulo Steagall, professor of Veterinary Anesthesia and Pain Management at the Université de Montréal in Canada will lead the project. The project is supported by Dechra. Dr. Polly Taylor and Dr. Paulo Steagall, leaders of the FECAVA anaesthesia project: “Anesthesia and pain management have a huge effect on animal health and welfare. There is so much that can be done to improve its standards “at the coal face”. High quality anaesthesia can still be given without a bank of expensive monitors! Simple fundamental measures could save many lives in practice. We can no longer accept animals dying because “they did not tolerate anesthesia”. We do not want to reinvent the wheel, but we want veterinarians to have more basic tools that are immediately applicable in clinical practice. We couldn’t be happier to be working on this project together”, said Dr. Paulo Steagall and Dr. Polly Taylor. https://mailchi.mp/fecava/a-safe-walk-on-the-thin-line-between-life-and-death