Episode 2: Talking Emergency Response & First Aid with Dr Lizzie McCready
In this episode I’m talking with Dr Lizzie McCready who has taken her profession from on the road Equine Veterinary practice to working with horse owners to improve their emergency response skills. Find out some top tips to improve your own skills & be better prepared for those inevitable emergencies that arise when we have horses.
Dr Lizzie McCready:
Dr Lizzie, an equine vet based in Melbourne is bringing invaluable vet-taught education to the horse owner world. She started Empowering Equine Education in 2021 after seeing first-hand how the majority of horse owners are poorly prepared to take action and care for their horses when an emergency strikes. Drawing from her veterinary experience she has developed The Equine Emergency Response Training to help equip owners with the knowledge and hands-on skills to feel confident and competent in dealing with any emergency they encounter. Her mission is to raise the current standard of horsecare owners can provide and pass on her valuable veterinary expertise to passionate horse people.
Qualifications: Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine (with Honours) from the Royal Veterinary College
In this episode we discuss:
2:05 - The discussion begins with a look back at Lizzie’s journey to get to where she is now.
12:24 - Emergency situations horse owners/carers can be better prepared for and why being better prepared can impact outcomes.
16:58 - Essential equipment for a First Aid kid.
21:46 - Emergency response training for horse owners/carers.
36:18 - The future of First Aid for horses.
37:18 - What you as listeners can go and do right now, in the next day or so.
Links mentioned by Dr Lizzie for Empowering Equine Education:
FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/empoweringequineeducation
INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/empowering.equine.education/
JOIN THE HORSE HEALTH HUB FACEBOOK GROUP: https://www.facebook.com/groups/thehorsehealthhub
LEARN MORE ABOUT THE EQUINE EMERGENCY RESPONSE TRAINING: https://equineemergencyresponsetraining.com/2022
Our links mentioned this episode:
Start Your Engines course+workshop
Abbey's Run Equestrian website
Abbey's Run Equestrian on Facebook
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