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Veterinary Tech
Antimicrobial Resistance in Veterinary Medicine 211 : Beef and Dairy Cattle
Credit Hours(s)
2.0
Instructors
Jeff Bender, DVM
Price
$48.00 USD
Format(s)
RACE Category 1 Scientific, Text
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Educational Objectives
Parts 1-3
Demonstrate understanding of how preconditioning and other preventive management procedures can reduce the frequency of antibiotic treatments for Bovine Respiratory Disease (BRD).
Describe the components of a good preconditioning program and how BRD can be prevented in the feedlot.
Describe how preventing BRD tends to cost less than clinical treatments with antibiotics.
Parts 4 - 5
Describe medicated milk replacer and how it is regulated under the Veterinary Feed Directive.
Identify antibiotics that historically were most commonly added to medicated milk replacer.
List the disadvantages associated with using medicated milk replacer.
Describe proper management and preventive medicine that are critical to long-term calf health.
Describe a good colostrum management program for dairy calves.
Parts 6 - 9
Describe the management practices that can prevent scours in calves, such as high quality colostrum management, sanitation and proper isolation procedures.
Explain the proper role of antimicrobial agents in treating calves with scours.
Parts 10 - 11
Discuss the general guidelines for the judicious use of antibiotics in the treatment of mastitis.
Describe the factors to consider in the selection of an antimicrobial drug for mastitis treatment.
Outline the preventive measures that may be taken on a dairy farm with regards to mastitis.
Discuss proper indications for the use of antimicrobials for contagious mastitis in dairy cattle.
Demonstrate understanding of the need to follow proper treatment protocols when using an antibiotic to treat individual cows for contagious udder pathogens.
Explain how somatic cell counts and culture results are used to formulate a herd antibiotic treatment plan for contagious udder pathogens.
Describe how antimicrobial treatment of contagious udder pathogens can be greatly reduced in herds by using effective mastitis prevention and control programs.
Recognize the futility of using antibiotics to treat cases of contagious mastitis if the cow is to be returned to a herd where she will quickly become reinfected.
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