Small animal emergency care. Quick reference guide

Carlos Torrente Artero

Carlos Artero received his veterinary degree from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) in 1995 and performed an internship at the UAB Veterinary Teaching Hospital in 1996. He obtained a master’s degree in veterinary medicine and animal health in 2009 and a PhD in veterinary medicine in 2014, both from the UAB. He has been director of the Postgraduate Programme in Small Animal Emergency and Critical Care of the UAB since 2015.

He worked in private practice with a focus on emergency and critical care until 2006, the year he became an associate professor in the Animal Medicine and Surgery Department of the UAB School of Veterinary Medicine and director of the Emergency and Critical Care Unit at the UAB Veterinary Teaching Hospital.

He has performed residencies and received specialty training at various universities and private referral centres in Europe, the United States, and Canada. He is currently a member of IVECCS (International Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care Society), member of the Member Relations Committee for Standards of Practice of EVECCS (European Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care Society) and associate editor of the Journal LAVECCS (Latin-American Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care Society).

He has written several publications and delivered conference presentations and lectures, both in Spain and internationally, in his areas of interest: acid-base alterations, haemodynamic regulation, and ventilator management of critical patients. In 2011, he and Lluis Bosch jointly published Medicina de urgencia en pequeños animales, tomos I y II (Small Animal Emergency Medicine, Volumes I and II) (Editorial Servet).