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    General information

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    Welcome to the module of Veterinary Clinical Pathology and Toxicology (VET4222)

    This module to taught to 4th year veterinary medicine students and it aims at developing theoretical and practical understanding of veterinary clinical pathology and toxicology to students. The module has three Units : Hematology and cytology, Clinical biochemistry and toxicology

    Brief description and Aim

    The module aims at developing theoretical and practical understanding of veterinary clinical pathology and toxicology. Students will be taken through theoretical and practical concepts of veterinary clinical pathology and toxicology. By the end of the course, students should have gained knowledge of how clinical pathology is applied to aid in making confirmatory diagnosis of various diseases of veterinary importance as well as how the subject can be applied in instituting therapy and monitoring of therapy response. The subject will mainly cover appropriate means of collecting and processing samples for laboratory diagnosis specifically for blood, urine, fecal, skin, body exudates as well as various organ biopsies e.g. lymph nodes, liver, swellings etc. It will also cover the concepts of veterinary toxicology as well as the clinical approach of diagnosis and treatment of intoxications in domestic animals.

    Learning outcomes

    By the end of this module students will: 

    • Be able to understand the concepts of clinical pathology and its importance in veterinary medicine
    • Be able to  identify and collect samples required for the diagnosis of animal diseases   
    • Be able to accurately interpret laboratory findings, give the right diagnosis, and prescribe appropriate therapy based on laboratory findings
    • Be able to understand the general concepts of veterinary toxicology

    Facilitators'contacts:

    Pie Ntampaka, BVM, MVSc (Module leader)

    E-mail address: p.ntampaka@ur.ac.rw

    Tel: +250788512536

    Tumusiime Margaret, MSc

    E-mail address: tmarg2010@gmail.com

    Tel: +250782480677

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    Module description

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    Unit 1: Hematology and Cytology

    Introduction

    Welcome to this section for the unit called hematology and cytology which is one of the three units under Veterinary Clinical pathology and Toxicolgy. It is course unit  offered to undergraduate students so that they can understand the concepts about blood components in the normal and abnormal condition in animals, blood collection procedures, blood analysis methods and also concepts of cytology and how cytological samples like body exudates as well as various organ biopsies e.g. lymph nodes, liver, swellings etc are collected and analyzed.

    Hematology refers to the study of the numbers and morphology of the cellular elements of the blood—the RBCs (erythrocytes), WBCs (leukocytes), and platelets (thrombocytes)—and the use of these results in the diagnosis and monitoring of disease

    Learning outcomes

    At the end of this unit, you will be able :

    • To identify the different blood cell of animals during normal and abnormal conditions
    • To understand different cytological processes
    • To collect and process blood samples for the diagnosis of animal diseases
    • To accurately interpret laboratory findings from blood and cytology samples, diagnose, and prescribe appropriate therapy based on laboratory findings

    Facilitator

    Tumusiime Margaret



    • Clinical pathology for Veterinary Team Book
      Students must
      Mark as done

      This book helps students to understand clinical pathology. It includes all the techniques used to analyse normal and abnormal parameters of blood  and other body fluids. It helps students to know how to handle sample collected from the animals and how to differentiate between the normal from abnormal so that they can accurately interpret the laboratory findings. 

    • Veterinary Technician's Handbook of laboratory procedures
      Students must
      Mark as done

      This book contains laboratory procedures on blood and so  helpful to students doing hematology

    • Assignment 2
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    • hematology addition notes File HTM
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      324.2 KB
    • comparative blood cell morphology File PDF
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      1.0 MB
    • Body cavites File PDF
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      5.8 MB
    • hematology and cytology notes File PPTX
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      30.6 MB
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    Unit 2 : Veterinary Clinical Toxicology

    Learning outcomes :

    By the end of this component students will:
    1. Be able to understand the general concepts of veterinary toxicology
    2. Be able to diagnose and prescribe appropriate treatment for the most common animal toxicoses.

    Indicative contents :

    1. General principles of veterinary toxicology
    - Toxicokinetics and toxicodynamics
    - General approach to diagnosis and treatment of toxicoses
    2.Toxicology of selected toxicants
    - Toxicology of pesticides
    - Biotoxins
    - Poisonous plants
    - Industrial toxicants (organic and inorganic chemicals)

    Facilitator : Pie Ntampaka, BVM, MVSc

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    Unit 3 : Clinical biochemistry

    Clinical pathology is one of the two major divisions of pathology, the other being anatomical pathology.

    In veterinary medicine, clinical pathology comprises:
    − Haematology
    − Clinical biochemistry (a.k.a. clinical chemistry)
    − Cytopathology

    Clinical biochemistry is taught to undergraduate veterinary students (Level 4).

    Aims :

    At the end of this course, students will:

    - Be able to describe techniques for appropriate collection and preservation of blood samples for clinical biochemistry analysis
    - Be familiar with the analytes that are commonly measured in clinical biochemistry

    Facilitator : Pie Ntampaka