Has anyone found a RACE-approved course that truly drills surgical prep and intra-op monitoring, not just theory? We just added sidestream capnography to our multi-parameter setup (Vetcorder + SurgiVet), and I’m after a 2–4 hour module that covers pre-op checklists, ASA scoring, alarm limits, and interpreting ETCO2 trends during routine spays/neuters; any recommendations?
VETgirl has RACE‑approved anesthesia monitoring webinars in the 2–3 hr range that hit pre-op checklists, ASA scoring, alarm limits, and capnography; it paired well with our Vetcorder + SurgiVet after we added sidestream: https://vetgirlontherun.com. One thing that helped us was putting the sidestream sampling port on the patient side of the elbow at the ETT connector, which cleaned up ETCO2 trends on routine spays/neuters; just confirm your alarm limits during the checklist. Do you need strictly on-demand, or would a live webinar work?
Quick clinic tip: indicator stripes drive me nuts — clients see “lines = safe,” but they miss time/steam, so we add a Type 5 integrator in every pouch and staple the readout to the day’s log; it’s pennies and it caught two under-timed runs this fall. For interdental care with our small-breed dogs, short-handled brushes work around crowded premolars, but when contacts are tight I demo a floss holder once and then offer wipes as the fallback — whatever they’ll do. CDC’s monitoring primer is a handy share if you’re battling the stripe myth: https://www.cdc.gov/oralhealth/infectioncontrol/sterilization/index.html.