This lecture covers how to use and interpret the IRIS CKD Guidelines and the IDEXX SDMA Test including case studies as examples.

This lecture will cover how to develop a CKD management plan which is the best for the patient based on clinical status (IRIS staging) and pet owner's preferences.

This lecture covers the basics as well as what is new in the nutritional management of CKD patients. When should feeding of a renal food start?

The lecture will focus on the patho-physiological relationship between hyperthyroidism and CKD, and the compensatory mechanisms that tend to mask early CKD.

The underlying causes leading to muscle mass loss in disease will be explained, and will be contrasted to the muscle mass loss in ageing.

How to feed a finicky eater during hospitalisation and at home, the indications for tube feeding and feeding tube management, food and food forms for tube feeding, the pros and cons of appetite stimulants, will be covered in this lecture.