Dr. Lorenzo CROSTA

Teaching goals

• Avian medicine is complex and the veterinarian who takes care of it must necessarily be an all-rounder as far as birds are concerned. This also includes neonatology and paediatrics, which are very particular and specific species topics, that are addressed differently than in dogs and cats.
• This brief introduction is to understand how to recognize a healthy chick and how to know if it may be sick. There are also suggestions on how to reach the diagnosis and on the most useful diagnostic methods.

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Teaching goals

• If feather-plucking in birds is often frustrating for the vet, it is also because they are not normally addressed in depth.
• The objective of this short course on plucking is to frame a problem that is much wider than what is usually assumed.
• In fact, plucking can have organic, psychological and behavioral causes. We will try together to resolve this complicated issue a bit.

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• This lesson explains two of the most common foot diseases in birds: bumblefoot, or bird foot dermatitis, and Amazon foot necrosis. Both are common diseases that every avian veterinarian should know how to recognize and treat.

Teaching goals

Teaching goals

• This second part on avian anesthesia completes the first part, illustrating alternative anesthesia ; techniques and monitoring the avian patient.

Teaching goals

• This first part of the bird anaesthesia webinar explains the anatomical and physiological basis of this technique.
• In addition, the first steps of induction and monitoring and of the avian patient under anaesthesia are addressed.
• The first part is preparatory to the second, which we will deal with shortly.

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Teaching goals

• This brief talk on feather loss explains that not all the issues with plumage have the same cause, and that passive plumage loss is a very different thing from active feather plucking, or Feather Destructive Behavior.
• Certainly, there are common causes of the two problems, and the diagnostic process is similar, but the causes of a loss of feathers and active feather plucking can also be very different.

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• Endoscopy is a very valuable technique for the diagnosis, but also for the treatment of most avian diseases. It can be said that there is no modern avian medicine without endoscopy.
• Today's talk takes into consideration the instruments for avian endoscopy, and the main diagnostic techniques, both non-surgical, and which involve surgical access to the avian coelom.

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• Beak injuries are common and often the solution doesn’t seem easy.
• In the talk of today, we face in a simple way, with some video-photographic examples, how to deal with the most common injuries of the beak.
• The final part considers the construction of two different types of beak prostheses.

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