Texas Equine Veterinary Association

www.texasequineva.com • Page 13 RECAP NINTHANNUAL SUMMERSYMPOSIUM Marble Falls, Texas, attracts folks in the summertime for its many recreational venues including fishing, water sports, and golf. Plus, there's "recreational pie eating" at the Blue Bonnet Café, which sells 900 to 1200 pies weekly, depending on the season, and up to 2500 during anksgiving. Visitor traffic, including some pie aficionado veterinarians, escalated during August 10-12, 2017, when 164 equine practitioners and 23 veterinary technicians from seven states (and Dubai!) attended the annual Texas Equine Veterinary Association (TEVA) Summer Symposium spending a long weekend together at the Marble Falls Resort learning new ways to keep veterinary medicine at a high level. Recognizing that Texas has the largest horse population of any state in the United States, TEVA, whose membership numbers close to 400, is dedicated to providing the highest quality regional equine veterinary educational opportunities for practitioners. Dr. Michael Martin, TEVA Past President, explained "When TEVA was created our basic goals included providing quality continuing education (CE), promoting camaraderie between equine veterinarians, providing scholarship opportunities, and ensuring horses' welfare." Martin noted "TEVA is the only equine veterinary organization including a vendor as a member of their board. Our trade show environment allows veterinarians more time to learn about products. Time factors in practice oen prevent such opportunities. We encourage veterinarians in mixed animal practice to join our organization." At last month's event, over ten equine veterinary specialists from referral practices and veterinary schools presented almost 20 hours of continuing education for their colleagues who treat horses. e program covered a wide variety of subjects ranging from equine surgery, diseases, and lameness to advanced imaging diagnostics. A special dentistry forum was held in honor of the late Dr. Clay Stubbs, who was well known to those in the equine, ranching, and veterinary industry in Texas. Each speaker's goal was to present previous, current, and impending information on their specialty that's pertinent to the role of equine practitioners in assessing, diagnosing, treating, and managing diseases and syndromes of horses in the field, clinic, or referral hospital. Topics covered included: • IV fluids in field settings • Colitis; infectious gastrointestinal diseases outbreaks • Equine Protozoal Myeloencephalitis (EPM); Neurologic Equine Herpes Virus 1 (EHV 1) • Eye diseases, blindness, risk factors ( genetics, leptospirosis) • Skin topics: insect hypersensitivities, infectious diseases, autoimmune, food and contact allergies • Kidney disorders • Lameness diagnostic nerve blocks • Difficult "hocks"! • Field general anesthesia as well as field anesthesia in the standing horse • Surgical procedures performed under field conditions, • Field orthopedic surgeries procedures and complications • Common field surgeries in young, growing horses • Current breeding developments; AI, ET, hormonal management and other repro information • Lack of milk production in mares

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