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Do you want to learn how to perform CPR on a dog? How about place a tracheotomy tube on a cat? Perhaps you’d like the chance to experience the small animal ICU before your third and fourth year? If so, the Student Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care Society may be the perfect club for you!
SVECCS is an interactive club geared toward those students interested in the possibility of one day working in emergency medicine! We aim to educate our members about some of the commonly seen emergencies in small (and large) animal practice as well as the differences in the life of an emergency vet. We offer monthly meetings with esteemed speakers as well as other “hands-on” opportunities. Last year, we offered a fall wet lab where members were able to practice common small animal emergency skills such as placing chest and tracheotomy tubes, urinary catheterization and much more! We also offered a spring CPR demonstration and lab with Purdue’s cardiologist, Dr. Henry Green.
SVECCS also offers opportunities for members such as attending ICU rounds every other Friday, as well as serving on the Small Animal Emergency Team (optional of course!), which involves being “on call” occasionally with the chance to come in and help out in ICU when things get busy! 2008-2009 is expected to be another rewarding year for SVECCS. If you enjoy small (or large!) animal medicine, have an interest in or wish to learn more about emergency medicine, and want the opportunity to get some hands-on experience, then SVECCS is the club for you!
 
central venous catheter placement wet
lab
Eric Herman places a chest tube for thoracocentesis
Co-president Gabi Toth meets a patient
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