Paul Aldridge Surgery & CPD

07/14/2025

Interested in building your experience in thoracic surgery? Take a look at our Practical Advanced Soft Tissue Surgery: Abdominal and Thoracic course coming up in October. This two-day cadaver-based course lectured by Paul Aldridge Surgery & CPD includes extensive practical sessions to take a look at less commonly performed abdominal procedures and act as an introduction to thoracic surgery.

Find out more at centralcpd.co.uk/course/practical-advanced-soft-tissue-surgery or via the link in our bio.

03/27/2025

Here’s a tricky case from a few months ago, referred for reconstruction of a chronic wound resulting from dehiscence following a mast cell tumour excision.
Overlying the caudal thigh, with sparse surrounding skin, we elected utilise a subdermal plexus flap to transpose skin from the cranial thigh into the deficit. Rhomboid flaps are rarely reported in the veterinary literature; rotation, advancement, and traditional rectangular transposition flaps being more commonly used.
With a wide base, short overall length, and no resulting ‘dog-ears’ they fit many of the criteria of the ‘ideal’ sub dermal plexus flap. Follow the link for the full open access Vet Record case report:

http://doi.org/10.1002/vrc2.70029

09/08/2022

After a 3-flight 22-hour journey we’re kicking off the lectures in San Antonio at IVECCS 2022! Big room filling up with an enthusiastic crowd to hear ...

08/18/2022

We’re delighted to announce that Paul Aldridge BVSc CertSAS MRCVS, Advanced Practitioner in Small Animal Surgery at Vets Now Manchester, will be involved...

05/11/2022

Positive delegate feedback is always nice to have on the day; but when a delegate thanks you because the practical course you taught last year enabled them to step in (as a recent graduate) and take over from their struggling boss and another experienced colleague, to perform a successful resection and anastomosis on a mesenteric torsion it makes your day.

Teaching Emergency Surgery to 2nd year graduate scheme delegates at Central CPD with Pets at Home Vet Group

05/03/2022

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Lecturing with CENTRAL CPD LTD today, “Schedule 3; Surgical Skills for Nurses” practical course. Great to chat about all things wound management related...

04/13/2022

Spring is here so that means stick injury season! Link below to a BSAVA Companion review article I’ve just coauthored discussing the indications for, and techniques of cervical surgical exploration in these potentially fatal cases.
Spoiler alert: if there’s radiographic evidence of emphysema it’s time to start cutting!

Oropharyngeal injuries are commonly seen in practice. Severity can range from minor to life threatening in the case of dorsal pharyngeal or oesophageal punctures. A prompt diagnosis and early aggressive surgical management may be required to prevent the development of mediastinitis and sepsis. This....

03/29/2021

Feeding tubes Part 2, starting with the basics; naso-oesophageal and naso-gastric. Quick and easy but a short term solution with some limitations

03/21/2021

Kicking off our feeding tube series...... “Don’t wait for your patients to eat when they feel better , they’ll feel better when they eat !” Nutrition is an essential part of any treatment plan but often overlooked in the initial stages of critical patient management.

03/14/2021

It's a year ago today since we were discussing implementation of infection control plans; who knew how relevant that was about to become.....

Enjoying the lovely weather and tranquil surroundings at Brockholes Nature Reserve. Discussing all things infection control and hand hygiene audits 🖐 🤚🤓