Surgery & Anesthesiology

Dr. Katie Bennett, DVM, DACVAA

Topics

  • Brachycephalic Anesthesia

  • Multimodal Pain Management

  • Common Anesthetic Complications & How to Mitigate Them

  • Aggressive Patient Management

  • Age is Not A Disease: Pediatric and Geriatric Anesthesia

  • ER Patient Anesthesia w/ airway emergencies

  • Cardiac Disease and Anesthesia

Katie Bennett is an anesthesiologist at Veterinary Specialty Center, a large private practice in the Chicagoland area. She completed her undergrad and vet school education at Purdue University, a Small Animal Rotating Internship at Washington State University, and an Anesthesia Residency at the University of Tennessee. She is passionate about continuing education and loves discussing cases with other veterinarians. Dr. Bennett is particularly interested in brachycephalic anesthesia, opioid-free anesthesia, and managing aggressive patients in a hospital setting. In her free time, Dr. Bennett enjoys running, trying new restaurants, and attending concerts and musicals in downtown Chicago. She currently also enjoys spending time with her three dogs: Levi - 15yo Australian Shepherd, Roux - 4yo Australian Shepherd, and Winnie - ~10yo chihuahua.

Topics

  • Treating mandibular trauma

  • How to save a bulldog

  • Lameness in the middle age dog

  • Intestinal surgery

  • Gastric surgery

  • Splenectomy

  • C-sections

  • Local blocks

  • Managing open & closed wounds

  • Surgical scrub

  • Paraphymosis

  • Laryngeal Paralysis

  • Orthotics, prosthetics, and splinting

  • Suture type

  • Bulldogs

Dr. Chris Ralphs, DVM, DACVS

Chris Ralphs received his DVM from Cornell University.  He completed a rotating internship at the Veterinary Referral and Emergency Center in Norwalk CT and a Surgical internship at Gulf Coast Veterinary specialists in Houston TX.  He then completed his residency and masters degree at the University of Minnesota.  While there, he met his wife Kristen and the two of them moved to Pittsburgh where he joined the Pittsburgh Veterinary Specialists and she joined a general practice.  After three years in Pittsburgh, Chris and his wife moved to Rhode Island to be closer to their families and to start their own family.  Chris has been working for the last 18 years at Ocean State Veterinary Specialists, a multispecialty referral and emergency hospital with a very busy ER and a teaching hospital component with interns and residents.  He enjoys the pace and variety of caseload and finds the teaching component to be particularly rewarding.  Chris also provides instructional videos for the VetGirl website, serves as one of the forum advisory specialists and has lectured at two of the VetGirlU conferences.   When not working, he enjoys any outdoor activity, travel, woodworking and spending time with his wife and two daughters.

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