Practitioners can often feel stressed attending to sick camelids, especially since many have been subclinically grumbling away for some time prior to presentaion. This session aims to empower attending vets, breaking down camelid triage and determining easy steps to provide first opinion care in acute camelid cases. We will outline appropriate first line diagnostics and interpretations of common scenarios to boost confidence in dealing with alpacas and llamas in stressful situations.