This one-day workshop will address the challenges faced when presented with a dog with Brachycephalic Obstructive Airway Syndrome. It will aid both your medical and surgical decision making in these complex and often urgent cases.

You will learn about the anatomical and pathophysiologic changes associated with BOAS and the surgical techniques to correct them, as well as pre- and post-operative management of these compromised patients.

Delegates will have plenty of opportunity to practice surgical techniques in a wet-lab setting.

Key Skills:

At the end of this workshop delegates should be able to:

Appropriate case and airway surgery procedure selection for dogs with brachycephalic conformation
Appropriate perioperative care for dogs with brachycephalic obstructive airway syndrome undergoing surgery
Perform basic surgical techniques for improving brachycephalic obstructive airway syndrome.

Tristram Bennett

BVSc (distinction), MANZCVS (surgery), DACVS-SA, dipl ECVS

Surgical Specialist

Tristram is a surgical specialist/surgical oncologist based at SASH in Sydney. He graduated from Massey University in New Zealand in 2010 and spent a number of years in general small animal practice before he completed his American College of Veterinary Surgeons residency at Brisbane Veterinary Specialist Centre. Tristram then undertook a Fellowship Surgical Oncology at Colorado State University. He has been working as a surgeon at SASH in Sydney since 2017.