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And as always, please let us know if you find any problems using either http://WWW.vin.com or http://Beta.vin.com.

VIN News Service Needs Your Feedback

NEWS THAT'S FIT TO CLICK and discuss
News reported for YOU...

• Survey shows veterinarians wary of AVMA GHLIT-Pets Best deal
  - VNS Report | Discussion
• Practice staffer unknowingly buys hot items off eBay
  - VNS Report | Discussion
• VNN unveils online advice site for pet owners
  - VNS Report | Discussion
• Economic downturn hits veterinary practices
  - VNS Report | Discussion

Be a VIN Newshound:
VNS is here to give YOU a voice and report news that is important to YOU. Got an idea for a story? Have a story that needs covering? Post it on the boards or email News@vin.com .

Share News with nonVINners -- The VIN News Service (without access to the community discussions) is now publicly available at news.vin.com. Check it out and share it.

Mark Kittleson's Case Studies in Small Animal Cardiovascular Medicine
Fancy yourself a great clinician? Put yourself to the test with these medical case studies - presented in an interactive format. Mark Kittleson has generously allowed the VIN Multimedia Team to experiment using content from his Case Studies in Small Animal Cardiovascular Medicine website.

Select a case, formulate a diagnostic plan and take the quiz to get feedback on your diagnostic abilities. Each case is even linked to the appropriate chapter of the VIN online book Small Animal Cardiovascular Medicine.

Work through some of the cases on Mark's wonderful site and some in the format. Tell us if you love or hate the new format. Your feedback is what drives changes in your VIN!

Don't Let Fleas (or Flea Product Choices) Bug You!
VIN Consultants Mark Grossman, DVM MS and Carol Foil, MS DVM DACVD have organized a chart of Ethical and Prescription Flea Products to help you and your staff make sense of the plethora of products. Print a copy and keep dosages, patient notes, clinical effects and mechanisms of action at your fingertips.

Join the message board discussion to share your thoughts and give your feedback/suggestions!

New in VeterinaryPartner:

• Cats in Charge
• Feline Asthma revised
• Terbinafine revised

Texas Farm Radio

• Dispensing of Veterinary Prescription Drugs

Quantitative analysis in spontaneous canine anal sac gland adenomas and carcinomas
The results indicated that (1) the mean nuclear area, mean nuclear perimeter, mean nuclear diameter, and nuclear roundness could be used as effective auxiliary tools for differential diagnosis between canine anal sac gland adenomas and adenocarcinomas, and (2) mean nuclear area, mean nuclear perimeter, and mean nuclear diameter are reliable prognostic indicators for canine anal sac gland adenocarcinomas.

American association of poison control centers database characterization of human tilmicosin exposures, 2001-2005
Over 250 cases of human tilmicosin exposure are reported to poison centers per year and over 150 of those are parenteral. Most exposures produce no or minor effects, but fatalities have occurred with parenteral exposure. Significant adverse and prolonged effects are reported at parenteral doses greater than 0.5 mL, suggesting that all parenteral exposures should be referred for healthcare facility evaluation.

Comparative pharmacokinetics of an injectable cephalexin suspension in beef cattle
Cephalexin plasma concentrations remained above 0.5-0.75microg/ml for 11-14 hours and 8-9 hours after the subcutaneous and intramuscular administrations, respectively. Thus, route of administration may be an important issue to be considered when calculating dosage schedules for successful treatments and safe withdrawal times for veterinary medicines.

In-house meeting compensation for production based veterinarians?
I like going to staff meetings and unless they conflict with relief dates that I have set up, I plan on attending them on my days off or on. I feel like the meetings are a good way to get the staff together on issues.

Multiple unerupted teeth
There are no swellings in her mouth, no gingivitis, and no pain on palpation of these sites. Do I worry about these missing teeth? Should she have a GA for me to take radiographs to look for unerupted teeth?

Making clinical decisions based on blood pressure measurements in veterinary patients
Blood pressure measurement is extremely labile with marked individual variation to stressors such as ride to clinic, odors, noise, handling, etc.

Sunday Rounds
Sunday, March 29, 10 p.m. EDT
(Monday, March 30, 2 a.m. GMT/UTC)
Join Paul Pion, DVM, DACVIM for The VIN Community: Where We Are and Where We are Going.

How To Use VIN: Part 1
Wednesday, April 1, 9:30 p.m. EDT
(Thursday, April 2, 1:30 a.m. GMT/UTC)
Learn how to use VIN like a pro!
Email Nate@VIN.com for more information about this free, three-session course.

This Week's Rounds Schedule
Use the Rounds link to join these discussions.

Want to See What You've Been Missing?
Click the Rounds button on VIN's main navigation bar and read the transcripts of the last few Rounds, click the complete list of Rounds to get to the list of the last 300 Rounds transcripts or click on Rounds and Discussions in the VIN Library.

Rounds are also searchable via the Search button. Just remember to choose Rounds (under the Clinical Resources tab) as the "Source" in your search parameters.

For All You Multi-Taskers:
Download VINCasts to your MP3 player and listen to previous Rounds sessions while you run errands, exercise or steal a few minutes of me-time.

Recent Rounds
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• 2008 WCVD Updates
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• Feline Diabetic Ketoacidosis Case
• Diagnosing And Treating Feline IBD @
• Disc Disease and Spinal Cord Trauma @
• Concurrent Renal & Cardiac Disease ~ AAFP
• Feline Diabetes & Acromegaly @
• The Obama Tax Plan @

Member Benefit:
Veterinary Journals Online
When you SEARCH VIN, you scan nearly 2 million content items. Within this mass of information are citations and abstracts relevant to veterinary practice from thousands of clinical and biomedical journals.

In the VIN Library, you'll find a complete (well, likely a few have been missed) collection of citations and abstracts (and sometimes more) from over 150 core veterinary journals.

Get More From VIN
Why Should I Cross-Post?
By cross-posting, you allow the various specialists to combine their knowledge into one discussion, thus creating a TEAM EFFORT in guiding you with your case. Get help and see examples!

Funny Bones:
Puns Intended
Igor the no armed bell ringer rings the bell by running and hitting the bell with his head.
One day he missed and fell.
Two guys find him.
One says 'Do you know him?'
The other says 'No but his face rings a bell.'

What's Your Diagnosis?
Archives of the Challenging and Fun Cases
* Zoonosis Fun 9
* Ophthalmology Fun 78

Associate - Updated and New:
Rectal stricture in Dogs and Cats
Explore the rest of Associate!

Book Review of the Week
Diseases of the Goat, Third edition
Purchase it in the VIN Bookstore!

Website of the Week
Beef Calf Nutrition and more?

eVetsites Tip of the Week
Setting up your site with Google Analytics

Upcoming Conferences
Looking to attend or contribute a paper to a veterinary conference? Check out the On The Road With VIN folder, or the Press Releases folder, to see what conferences are coming up and to visit their Web sites! Links to information about upcoming conferences include: SAVMA, BSAVA, NAVDF, ABVP, Voorjaarsdagen, CVC East and IAAAM.

NOW OPEN FOR ENROLLMENT!
Click on the links below to see the details, register and find more upcoming CE.

Veterinary Dental Techniques Module 4
July 6 - August 10, 2009

The fourth module will focus on the treatment and restoration of broken teeth.

Veterinary Dental Techniques Module 5
August 17 - September 14, 2009

The fifth module will be devoted to the treatment of orthodontic malocclusions and fractures of the maxilla and mandible.

Veterinary Dental Techniques Module 6
September 14 - October 5, 2009

The sixth module discusses anesthesia, both local and general, pre-, intra- and post-operative pain management. The last portion is devoted to health, safety and ergonomics of veterinary dentistry and designing the dental suite.

For information on other CE courses check out the Course Catalog on the CE Main Page.

Please visit How-To's Of Online CE for details about how to register and participate in online CE courses.

If you're looking for information on CE opportunities for veterinary technicians, receptionists or practice managers, please visit the VSPN CE page. VSPN offers courses tailored to veterinary support personnel, and certain VIN courses also are open to VPSN members.