Vets with Horsepower and Dr Bianca Schwarz:

Equine vet CPD in Saarlouis, Germany
17th and 18th July 2025

GO DIRECT TO GERMAN SITE FOR INFO AND TICKETS

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On the 17th and 18th of July 2025 the Vets with Horsepower will stop in Saarlouis to help deliver high-quality equine CPD lectures for vets in Germany.
​The aim is to raise funds for four fabulous charity projects in need;

• Saving the Survivors (caring for African poaching victims and helping to stop further poaching)
• the Gambia Horse and Donkey trust (veterinary care and education for those working equids and their owners that need it desperately)
• the Mozambique vet school (educating the future generation of veterinarians)
• Changing Lives Malawi (improve opportunities for children)
• Shy Lowen horse and pony sanctuary (helping people and horses)

​(Click on their names for more information about the projects we support)

The CPD hours are accredited by the CPD standards office.
Come and join us to follow some interesting lectures and help us raise money for the charities!

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DETAILS

Tickets:
Via the German website (click to go there)

Date and time:
17th and 18th July 2024.
Thursday 17th July 2.30pm registration/arrival for 3pm start, end around 8pm
Friday 18th July 8.30am registration/arrival for 9am start, end around 5pm

Location:
Hotel LINSLERHOF
Linslerhof 1, D- 66802 Überherrn (click on address for Google maps/navigation)

Local organiser:
Dr Bianca Schwarz.
 

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The speakers and talks:
(click on speakers' names for more information about them)

Day 1 - Thursday 17th of July
14.30 – 15.00 Registrierung und Begrüßung

15.00 – 15.30 New treatments for sarcoid – are they going to solve the problem? Derek Knottenbelt
15.30 – 16.00 Oral neoplastic disease – diagnosis and treatment options. Jenny Croft
16.00 – 16.30 Useful electronic devices to examine the equine heart in clinical practice. Gunther van Loon
16.30 – 17.00 Foal anaesthesia. David Bardell
17.00 – 17.30 “Brain storming”: the science of seizures. Caroline Hahn

17.30 – 18.00 Pause

18.00 – 18.30 The hock: clinical anatomy and radiology plus weird and wonderful cases. Jessica Kidd
18.30 – 19.00 Diagnosis and management of proximal suspensory desmitis. Roger Smith
19.00 – 19.30 Acupuncture in lameness management. Dietrich von Schweinitz
19.30 – 20.00 Assessment of the recumbent horse. Micheal Hewetson

Day 2 - Friday 18th of July
08.30 – 09.00 Registrierung und Begrüßung

09.00 – 09.30 Stableside lab tests for first opinion practice. Sanne Wilmink
09.30 – 10.00 A world without antibiotics – are we in troube? Derek Knottenbelt
10.00 -10.30 The hock: fractures and sepsis. Jessica Kidd

10.30 – 11.00 Kaffeepause

11.00 – 11.30 EOTRH – diagnosis and treatment options. Jenny Croft
11.30 – 12.00 Little brain or cerebellum: not so little after all. Caroline Hahn
12.00 – 12.30 A cardiac murmur in my horse: should I be worried? Gunther van Loon

12.30 – 13.30 Verabschiedung der Vets with Horsepower und Mittagspause
Nachmittagsvorträge (Vortragssprache: Deutsch)

13.30 – 13.50 Druse. Rosa Barsnick
13.50 – 14.10 Equine Herpesviren – Was gibt es Neues? Ann-Kristin Barton
14.10 – 14.30 Salmonella und Co. Katja Shell
14.30 – 14.50 Interpretation von TBS und BAL im Hinblick auf infektiöse Erkrankungen. Heike Kühn
14.50 – 15.10 Virale Hepatitiden: was gibt’s Neues bei Hepaci, Parvo und Co. Svenja Möller

15.10 – 15.40 Kaffeepause

15.40 – 16.00 „Mittelmeererkrankungen“ – auch bei uns? Bianca C. Schwarz
16.00 – 16.20 Anaplasmose. Frauke Uhlendorf
16.20 – 16.40 West Nile. Franziska Aumer
16.40 – 17.00 Equine protozoäre Myeloencephalitis – auch in Deutschland? Anja Kasparek

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Information and registration:
Registration - Via the German website (click to go there).
Questions can be sent direct to Dr Bianca Scwarz, via the German website.

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