NOTE THIS WORKSHOP IS NOT OPEN TO STUDENTS
Overview: This session will explore the newest pharmacodynamics and clinical pharmacology of sedative and anaesthetic combinations used in the Zoo and wildlife communities, pain pathophysiology and pain modulation. Both theoretical cases that participants had had to prepare from home and special cases from the participants will be discussed.
Carsten Grøndahl obtained a Ph.D. in anaesthesiology & pharmacology at the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University in Copenhagen in 1992, and has been an associate professor in Anaesthesia and Surgery at this university before becoming the chief veterinarian at Copenhagen Zoo in 1996. Carsten has led numerous postgraduate training seminars in anaesthesia, pain modulation, immobilisation, monitoring and the use of long-acting neuroleptics in many countries, he's given numerous talks and authored many publications, amongst which an anaesthesia chapter (Musk Ox) in Fowler's Zoo and Wild Animal Medicine Current Therapy, Volume 9.
Torsten Möller acquired his DVM from the Veterinary School of Copenhagen, Denmark in 1997. After working in mixed and large animals practice, he became a clinician at Kolmården Zoo and Wildlife Park (KDP), Sweden in 2001 and has been the head of the veterinary department at the zoo since 2010. Consequently, Torsten is a general zoo mammal clinician, with special interest of anaesthesia and infectious diseases. He is the chair of the Nordic section of the EAZWV
Christine Lendl graduated from Munich Vet School in 1989, wrote a thesis on pulse oximetry and obtained her CertVA in 1993, having been University Assistant Anaesthetist at Cambridge. Since then, she has worked in practices and clinics in Germany, including Tierpark Hellabrunn, Munich, Zoologischer Garten Dresden, Zoo Augsburg. She has German specialisations in Anaesthesiology and Zoo and Wild Animal medicine. Since 2015 she is self-employed as consultant for various practices and clinics as well as training institutions, focussing on anaesthesia and exotics.
