What's Your Diagnosis?
Want to get in some practice with the Associate program? Use the "What's Your Diagnosis?" Case Archives (VIN's Front Page, right column) to hone your skills.

Aldose reductase activity and glucose-related opacities in incubated lenses from dogs and cats.
Because onset of diabetes mellitus usually occurs in cats more than 7 years of age, low activity of aldose reductase in lenses of older cats may explain why diabetic cataracts are rare in this species despite hyperglycemia.

Safety and immunologic effects after inoculation of inactivated and combined live-inactivated dermatophytosis vaccines in cats.
Inoculation with IDV or CLIDV did not provide prophylactic immunity against topical challenge exposure with M canis. Inoculation with either vaccine did not provide a more rapid cure of an established infection.

Books With Homemade Diets
I find it troubling that not one of the pet nutrition books available to clients was written by a veterinarian who is a nutritionist. I would never even consider writing a text for pet owners or veterinarians on the topic of surgery, cardiology, neurology, or any other AVMA sanctioned specialty.

Clostridium Perfringens Enterotoxin Testing
The specificity of C. perfringens enterotoxin (CPE) assays is variable. I am relatively comfortable with a diagnosis if CPE is present in a diarrheic animal based on an ELISA. The RPLAA is less specific.

Pharmaceutical Regulatory Review Course

• Do you know the federal laws pertaining to controlled substance security and records?
• Do you know all about employee screening and criminal background checks?
• Do you know how to properly store drugs - and how to dispose of them when they become outdated?
• Do you know everything there is to know about extra-label use of drugs?
• Do you know all about drug compounding?
• Are you ready for the next inspector who walks through your door??

VIN's Pharmaceutical Regulatory Review Course will show you how to evaluate your practice, and how to implement improvements that will reduce your legal risks.

(PSST! This 3 CE credit hour course meets the Florida State Veterinary Board Pharmacy CE requirement!)

Instructor: Doug Kemp, Pharm.D. (VetPharm) University of Georgia

Dates: March 5th - March 19th, 2003
Interactive Session: Wed, March 12, 9:30-11:30 PM ET

CE Hours: 3

To Register: Visit Pharmaceutical Regulatory Review Course and click on the Enroll now link.

How To course, Part 2
Wednesday, March 12, 9:30 pm ET -
Learn how to use VIN's Message Boards and Associate. Email Nate@VIN.com for information about this FREE three-part course.
Rounds Room

Sunday Rounds
Sunday, March 16, 10:00pm ET -
Join Terry Hall, DVM, Certified Financial Planner, for Financial Planning Strategies For Practice Owners.

What's Your Diagnosis:
Conversation with a Sick Client

Book Review:
Cattle Behavior And Welfare, Second Edition

Website of the Week:
Indoor Cat Initiative, and more....

Survey of The Week Results:
* Imaging & Telemedicine
* Nasal Mites
* Euthanasia Procedures
* FATE
* Veterinary Career Survey, Part 1

Recent Rounds:
* Rescue Protocols for Lymphoma
* Fluid Therapy in Shock(ing) Situations
* Practice Mergers and Affiliations
* Common Muscle Diseases
* Chemotherapy Side Effects
* Congenital Portosystemic Shunt

From the Boards:
* The Reality Of Veterinary Medicine
* Job Applicants You Don't Want
* DIC?
* Atypical Addison's

VSPN CE: Euthanasia and Grief Management

How can VSPN CE help?

Cecelia Soares, DVM, MS leads this class in a focus group orientation that the ENTIRE hospital staff may find beneficial. What better way to bring issues no one wants to talk about to light so that your hospital as a whole can help both the clients and each other through the part of veterinary medicine we all wish didn't exist.

Staff must be registered FIRST through www.vspn.org for membership, then all members of VSPN or VIN can register by going to VSPN/CE : Euthanasia and Grief Management, and following the ENROLL NOW link for this course. If you have any questions please email VSPNCE@vspn.org or call the VIN office and ask to speak to Nanette.