Navigating Anesthetic Drug Shortages in Shelters After COVID-19

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, widespread drug shortages are currently impacting all healthcare providers, including animal shelters and nonprofit veterinary clinics. Those shortages are likely to worsen.

In this presentation, you'll learn what your organization needs to know to provide spay/neuter and veterinary care in a time of COVID from anesthesiologist and pain management specialist Dr. Sheilah Robertson. She will lay out how shelters and clinics can navigate current and anticipated drug shortages, provide tips on how to stay agile and plan ahead, and share information about drugs that have had their "use by" dates extended because of shortages.

Presenters: Dr. Sheilah Robertson and Dr. Sarah Kirk

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shelter medicine, pain management, anesthetic drugs for pet surgery, pet drug shortages, animal surgery anesthesia, COVID-19, anesthesia for animal surgery, helping pets with pain before, during and after surgery, Rx for pets, veterinary medicine, shelter veterinarians, webcast