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Latin American Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care Society (LAVECCS)25 de Mayo 890,
Maldonado,
Uruguay,
South America.
Zip Code 20000
Email:info@laveccs.org
Website:www.laveccs.org
PRESIDENT: Dr. Rodrigo Cardoso Rabelo
R Aimorés 2576/1605 Santo Agostinho, Belo Horizonte,
Minas Gerais,
Brazil
Zip Code 30140072 REPRESENTATIVE: Dr.Adriana Lopez Quintana
25 de Mayo 890,
Maldonado,
Zip Code 20000
Uruguay
Email:alopezquintana@gmail.com Members: 59 _________________________________ LAVECCS REPORT 2010
By the end of 2009 LAVECCS
• LAVECCS developed a strategic alliance with Royal Canin as our major sponsor
• Our II Latin American Emergency and Critical Care Congress was held on September 3 to 5, 2009 among the Leon Veterinary Congress with 4000 assistants and LAVECCS’ room always full.
• We developed training ABC LAVECCS Continuing Education courses with 2 levels: ABC Trauma & ABC Intensive Care.
• We have already held this course in Brazil and Ecuador, and have also schedule Uruguay, Chile, Mexico, Argentina. We expect to be able to organize at least 3 other courses on some other countries before the end of 2010
• The 1st August 2009, we started the on-line publication of our Journal LAVECCS, ISSN 1688-6100. www.journal.laveccs.org We had a new issue every 3 months with very good reception within the veterinary community
• LAVECCS and JLAVECCS have developed a strategic alliance with IVIS, for the publication of some of the JLAVECCS’ articles
• We will be held our LAVECCS room again in the Congress of Leon, Mexico in September 2010. That is the largest congress in Latin America with more than 3,000 delegates in 2009.
• We have developed stage programs with very important Emergency and Critical Care Hospitals for LAVECCS’ members.
o Animal Emergency Center, Milwaukee, USA, http://www.animalemergencycenter.com
o Veterinary Clincal Hospital, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Spain http://serveis.uab.cat/hcv/es/content/hospitalizaci%C3%B3n
o Veterinary Vila Matilde Animaniacs Hospital Sao Paulo, Brazil http://www.animaniacs.com.br
o 50% discuount in the Specialty Courses of Intensivet, Bello Horizonte Brazil http://www.intensivet.com/servicos.htm
• We will held our 3rd Latin American Congress in Buenos Aires Argentina from 3-5 of June 2010. We expect more than 500 delegates.
• We will also have one LAVECCS dedicated room in the Leon Veterinary Congress, to be held in Leon, Guerrero, Mexico on September 1st to 4th, 2010
__________________________________ LAVECCS - a brief history
The Latin-American Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care Society, LAVECCS was created on April 1st 2007 in Santiago de Chile. The foundational meeting gathered colleagues from Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Uruguay. Nonetheless, our dream was to bring together the whole Latin-America into one force. The purpose of LAVECCS is to promote, spread and secure the knowledge progression and elevated standards of practice in Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care Medicine in Latin-America.
LAVECCS is proud to say that we have among our associates, colleagues from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Grenada, Mexico, Peru, United States of America and Uruguay. We have also been able to incorporate the former BVECCS (Brazilian Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care Society) and the newly formed ECVECCS (Ecuadorian Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care Society) as subsidiaries of our Association.
Among our goals are the followings:
• Associate and affiliate into one organization doctors in veterinary medicine, veterinary technicians, veterinary students, and other individuals engaged in the practice of, or who have special interest in the field of veterinary emergency and patient critical care;
• Foster and encourage education, research and scientific progress in veterinary emergency and critical patient care;
• Establish and promote uniform standards and guidelines for the practice of veterinary emergency and critical patient care;
• Develop protocols and requirements for Emergency and Critical Care services in Latin-America
• Improve the quality of patients’ critical care
• Design qualification systems to the professionals practicing this specialty among Latin-American countries
• Organize and promote meetings, seminars, curses and congress at national, regional and international level
• Disseminate information pertinent to veterinary emergency and critical care to all interested groups and organizations.
• Stimulate the exchange of information between similar entities inside and outside the veterinary professions, at national and international level with the goal of knowledge progression of veterinary emergency and critical care and/or compared medicine
• Promote and defend the associates’ interests
• Give on accord to the pertinent laws the title of specialty Since our very beginnings LAVECCS has been recognized and full supported by VECCS the Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care Society of North America which has been leading the way in the development of the specialty, setting the standards and rules in the practice of veterinary emergency and critical care medicine in the world since the ´90s.
We have also recently started into the discussion of a partnership with EVECCS European Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care Society for future meetings and education related activities.
On the pursue of our goals LAVECCS has created several different Committees on Trauma, Analgesia and Anaesthesia, Sepsis, Emergency Surgery, Ethics, and Acid-base and Electrolytes balance.
Our Committee of Educational Affairs in cooperation with the Committee of Trauma has developed a standardized course on the Primary Care of the Trauma Patient based on the ATLS (Acute Trauma Life Support) program model, course that was already been held several times in different countries including Chile, Brazil, Argentina, México, Uruguay, Ecuador, Peru, Colombia among others.
Our I Latin-American Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care Congress was held last 6 – 7 December 2008, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It sure was a complete success with 3 simultaneous conference rooms, 17 speakers from Brazil, Argentina, Chile, USA and Uruguay, and more than 300 assistants from 8 different Latin American countries.
Our II Latin-American Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care Congress was held from 2 to 5th September, 2009 in León, Guerrero, México in conjunction with the León Veterinary Congress a very well-known, successful congress that congregates more than 3000 colleagues every year.
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