Advanced Pet First Aid Level 3 (VTQ)
Course Content
- Introduction to Advanced Pet First Aid
- Course Introduction
- Course Overview
- Before we start - Coronavirus COVID 19 advice for pet owners from the government
- Meet Your Vet
- Pet First Aid and The Law
- The vet and your role in first aid
- The Role of the Pet First Aider
- When is Veterinary Care Required?
- Keeping your pet safe in an emergency
- Car Accidents
- Pet Proofing your home
- Please rescue my pets stickers
- Hand Hygiene
- Dog Microchipping
- Precautions and Safety
- Anatomy and Physiology
- First Aid Kits and Equipment
- Checking a Dog's health
- Pet Accidents and First Aid
- CPR
- Choking
- Bleeding Control
- Different Conditions you may see
- Injuries
- Suspected fractures
- Pet Fractures Treatment
- Types of fractures on animals
- Spinal injury and moving an injured pet
- Paw Problems
- Nail and Claw Injuries
- Eye Injuries
- Eye Problems
- Bandaging the Ear
- Bandaging the Tail and Tail Injuries
- Puncture Wounds
- Animal bites and scratches on pets
- Stings on animals
- Ibuprofen and pets
- Carbon Monoxide and pets
- Vet poison information line
- Inducing Vomiting in a Dog
- Snake Bites
- Pet Burns
- Electrocution
- Cruciate Ligament
- Illness
- Pets and Illnesses
- Bloat and Gastric Dilatation and Volvulus (GDV)
- High Temperatures and Heatstroke
- Hypothermia Treatment
- Vomiting in Animals
- Different Types and Causes of Vomiting
- Seizures and Epilepsy
- Allergies in Pets
- Pancreatitis
- Cushings Disease
- Coughing and kennel cough
- Diarrhoea in Animals
- Rabies
- Alabama Foot Rot
- Blue Green Algae
- Pyometra
- Vestibular Syndrome
- Parasites that affect pets
- Cats
- Different types and sizes of animals
- Summary of Advanced Pet First Aid
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So, if you have a dog that has got very, very cold and is hypothermic, we are now going to look at what sort of treatment you can do. Now a dog who has had hypothermia you need to reheat them, but reheat them slowly, we do not want to hear them rapidly. If we took the dog and straight away put them in a really, really hot car, or put the fires on in a very, very hot room we can actually cause problems and actually the dog can go into cardiac arrest. So, we just slowly heat them where possible. Obviously, if they have got hypothermia getting them to the vet as soon as possible is a really important thing. But first aid-wise you can try and make sure that on that trip to the vets, we can start to warm them up. By putting blankets over them we are allowing their own body heat to warm them up rather than rapidly heating them. Now to do this we can do this in a couple of ways. We can use conventional blankets or foil blankets. Now, the foil blanket with animals is very, very effective, however, the noise of it can put them off. So, I am going to go here, just wrapping her in the foil blanket. To start with, just unwrap it. Now as you can see, the noise of it is putting her off a little bit but, they normally do calm down okay. Good girl. Good girl. Good girl. Good girl. Alright. Now once she has calm down from the noise, you can lay that over and if that is all we have got, then that is fine. We can just keep it just on her. So, transporting her to the vet, you just tuck it around her and that will help. To take the noise away and also hold it in place you can use a conventional blanket, or you can use a coat or something like that. Then take the blanket, lay it over the top, this will keep the foil blanket in position and also provide a little bit more insulation. So just right across here, tuck it in a little bit more, try not to cover their face, because that will stress them out a little bit. You can tuck the blanket right up over their face. Tuck it in underneath, put their legs in and their tail in. And now, what is underneath here, her body heat has been reflected by the foil blanket. The red blanket is holding that in place and her body temperature is going to slowly rise. But important that if she has hypothermia, we do need to get her to the vet very quickly and be very careful not to have the temperature inside the car very, very high. One final thing that is worth just noting with hypothermia is the result of them getting into the water. You can just get some of the... The rest of the water off their coat by just drying them with a towel but don't go drying them with a hair-dryer because this can cause a lot more problems. You need to sort their core temperature out. Even wrapping them up like this if they are wet is better than leaving them exposed and running the risk of the temperature dropping any further.
If a dog is exposed to very cold temperatures and becomes Hypothermic, the treatment you provide could make the difference between life and death. A hypothermic dog must be warmed up slowly so that its temperature rises gradually.
- If your dog is hypothermic you should get them to the vet as soon as possible
- Wrap them in a blanket or foil blanket if you have one if they are wet, dry them off with a towel. Blankets allow them to warm up naturally
- Do not take them from the cold and expose them to heat from fires or car heaters to warm them up quickly as this may cause more problems and could lead to cardiac arrest
A foil blanket provides insulation and reflects the heat back into the body, they can be a little noisy, if you have another blanket coat or towel available lay that over the top of the foil blanket.