The true story of coagulation: what you didn’t learn in vet school

• Understand how platelets and clotting factors are activated
• Be able to identify how platelets and clotting factors interact to form a clot
• Understand how our laboratory testing does not always give us the full picture into coagulation status

Identifying and treating inherited coagulopathies

• Know which point-of-care and commercial laboratory tests are useful to identify these patients
• Know which blood products are useful to manage a bleeding crisis
• Know the pre-emptive steps to take in patients with known clotting disorders prior to planned and emergency surgical procedures