On The Road at NAVDF 2026: Anesthesia for Veterinary Dermatology

“Teaching is learning twice.” Dr. Gaby spent this past weekend in Indianapolis sharing her anesthesia expertise with fellow colleagues in the veterinary dermatology world at the 2026 North American Veterinary Dermatology Forum (NAVDF) — four lectures, one Round Table, and a whole lot of conversations about how to keep dermatology patients safer under anesthesia.

Why Dermatology + Anesthesia Is a “Fun Challenge”

Dermatology procedures look simple from the outside — a biopsy, an ear flush, a cyst removal — but they come with their own anesthetic puzzles. Many of these patients are brachycephalic. Many are itchy, anxious, and difficult to medicate at home. Many are on long-standing immunomodulatory drugs that interact with our anesthetic plan. And the procedures themselves often involve shared airways, prolonged lateral recumbency, ototoxic flush solutions, or painful stimulation that the team has to manage without over-sedating an already compromised patient.

These are exactly the kinds of cases where a thoughtful pre-anesthetic plan pays off — and exactly the kinds of cases dermatology teams are doing every day.

Confidence for the Whole Team

The goal of every one of these lectures was the same one that drives MACvet’s consulting and training work back home: helping the doctors and credentialed technicians who deliver anesthesia every day feel more confident in the plans they’re building, the drugs they’re choosing, and the monitoring decisions they’re making in real time. Anesthesia shouldn’t be the scariest part of a routine dermatology procedure — it should be the part the team feels most prepared for.

Thank You, NAVDF + ACVD

A huge thank you to the attendees and coordinators at NAVDF and the American College of Veterinary Dermatology (ACVD) for welcoming MACvet to speak this year. Conferences like this one are how we live out our mission: making advanced anesthesia accessible to more animals, by making it accessible to more of the teams who care for them.

Learn more about the North American Veterinary Dermatology Forum (NAVDF)

If your team — dermatology or otherwise — wants this same kind of anesthesia coaching in your own practice, MACvet brings it to you, case by case.

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