What's the Dose?
When searching for information on drugs, one useful trick is to click the Drug Resources tab to limit your search to information from Plumb's Drug Handbook, the NAC Animal Formulary, COMPASS MSDS Sheets, the CVP Drug Label Database, the Pet Pharmacy (client handouts) and other valuable drug resources.
Have you explored Associate yet?
Associate can help you with your feline, canine, public health and foreign animal disease/bioterrorism questions.
*The Book section of Associate (canine and feline) has many new and updated disease chapters that serve as a great "starting point" for your clinical questions.
*The public health and foreign animal disease sections are up-to-date and soon, will be available in Spanish.
*The Tool section allows you to work through cases, clinical sign by clinical sign, building a list of diseases to consider.
It won't build a true "differential diagnosis" but it is a great reminder of conditions you might have forgotten to consider in those "tougher" cases.
Click the Associate link on either the SEARCH or the Book section of the NEW LIBRARY page.
Questions? Click the HELP tab (right column in Associate) to learn more.
Compendium of Veterinary Standard Precautions
What should you be doing to protect your employees from zoonotic diseases? What standard precautions are used in your practice? If you're not sure of the answers, check out the Compendium of Veterinary Standard Precautions. Learn how to implement an infection control plan to prevent transmission of zoonotic pathogens from animal patients to veterinary personnel in private practice.
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WSAVA 2006 Proceedings Online - Browse by speaker/category or search by topic.
Register now for WSAVA 2007, August 19-23 in Sydney, Australia! Proceed to the New Library! The newly reorganized VIN collection of meeting and symposium proceedings makes browsing for specific information even easier. In the VIN Library, click on the Proceedings tab and search Proceedings by Conference or Year. A special Archives section houses lecture notes from conferences from 1999 and earlier. The newest proceedings and notes are posted in the Latest Addition feature of the Proceedings page. Watch for more new and exciting features coming soon!!
Comparison of cardiopulmonary responses during sedation with epidural and local anesthesia for laparoscopic-assisted jejunostomy feeding tube placement with cardiopulmonary responses during general anesthesia for laparoscopic-assisted or open surgical jejunostomy feeding tube placement in healthy dogs
Sedation with epidural and local anesthesia provided satisfactory conditions for laparoscopic-assisted J-tube placement in healthy dogs; this anesthetic protocol caused less cardiopulmonary depression than general anesthesia and may represent a better choice for J-tube placement in critically ill patients.
In vitro elution studies of amikacin and cefazolin from polymethylmethacrylate
Polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) beads of only amikacin or cefazolin eluted concentrations greater than the minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) for selected bacteria for 30 days. Co-elution of the antibiotics at the selected doses resulted in a significantly shorter duration of elution and may not be effective for treatment of wound infection.
Validation of CADESI-03, a severity scale for clinical trials enrolling dogs with atopic dermatitis
A third version of the Canine Atopic Dermatitis Extent and Severity Index (CADESI-03) was designed. Overall, this revised version of the CADESI was found to exhibit acceptable content, construct, criterion, and inter- and intra-observer reliability and sensitivity to change. As a result, this scale is recommended as a validated tool for assessment of disease severity in clinical trials testing the efficacy of interventions in dogs with atopic dermatitis.
Treat asymptomatic Lyme positive dogs?; titers indicate exposure to diseases, not necessarily infection
Until we come up with a good diagnostic test that a dog really has Lyme disease (and not just previous exposure), I'll stand by my suggestion that treatment is not indicated. After all, we don't treat animals for all infectious diseases for which they have a titer. Most all dogs have a titer to distemper, parvo, adenovirus, rabies, etc., but we don't treat them for the disease. Likewise, most all cats have a titer to panleukopenia, herpes/calici, toxoplasma, etc., but we don't treat unless clinical signs or other findings demonstrate they have the disease or the organisms present.
Confessions of a discounter; how to charge appropriately
I really don't give stuff away, but I can be guilty of undercharging for anesthesia time, surgery time, etc. One thing I've found helpful, when I'm thinking, "Oh those poor people, this is going to cost them a mint" is to say to myself "Okay, I'm going to put everything in the computer *just as if* I were going to charge them the appropriate price, and see what the total is. Then I can discount if I want to." Then I put everything in and check the total. More than 95% of the time the total is something I can absolutely live with! The client gets charged appropriately, I no longer feel guilty, and it works great. And I almost never get complaints. Really effective to show me how unnecessary it is to give away the store.
Severe dental disease in a rabbit: diagnostics and therapeutic options
It seems like this rabbit has much more severe disease than you were able to tell by palpation or examination. That is typical -- and why radiographs are always a good idea.
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 Virtual Coffeehouse
Tuesday, July 17, 9:30 pm (July 18, 01:30 am GMT)
What's going on with you this week? Stop by and share with your colleagues!
Use the Coffeehouse link to join the discussion.
This Week's Rounds Schedule
EBM Journal Club
Tuesday, July 17, 10:00 pm (July 18, 02:00 am GMT)
Join your colleagues for the next meeting of the Evidence Based Medicine Journal Club.
Review the introductory transcript.
Attend the EBM Journal Club.
How to use VIN: Part 2
Wednesday, July 18, 9:30 pm (July 19, 01:30 am GMT)
Become a Super VINner! Email Nate@VIN.com for more information about this free, three-session course.
Attend the How-To Session.
Recent Rounds
LLC versus "S" Corporations Five Steps to Stopping Feline Itch EBM Journal Club (meeting 2) How to Hire a Relief Vet EBM Journal Club (meeting 1) Bovine Viral Diarrhea Alternative Exit Strategies Evidence-Based Medicine Journal Club Fluid Therapy: When, Where and How? What's That Lump? Know Before You Cut How To Select And Hire A Consultant
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Book Review of the Week:
Equine Podiatry
You can purchase this book in the VIN store. Associate - Updated and New:
* Chlamydial conjunctivitis can be a nasty disease in cats.
*Explore the rest of the Associate! What's Your Diagnosis?
* Ophthalmology Case 24
* Dental Brain-Teaser 63
* Case Archives
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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: AAV, SWVS and ECVIM.
From the Boards:
* MRSI Infected Dog With Immunocompromised Owner
* Jiggle The Animal When Flushing The Bladder
* When Do You Send Reminder Cards?
* Using A Phase Contrast Microscope
Radiation and Surgical Oncology
This course will be an introduction to the basic principles of oncology and standard treatments. It is important to clinically evaluate a patient to determine not only the extent of the primary tumor but the presence of regional and distant, or systemic, metastases. Staging is important for many reasons: surgical planning of the primary tumor, radiation therapy planning of the primary tumor and/or metastases, the need for adjuvant chemotherapy, prognosis, and decisions regarding palliative care and quality of life. The first week of the course covers biopsy and clinical staging of the tumor, which leads into Week 2 and 3 of treatment topics. Instructors:
Betsy Hershey, DVM, DACVIM (Oncology), CVA
Elaine R. Caplan, DVM, DACVS, DABVP
Pamela D. Jones, DVM, DACVIM (Medical Oncology), DACVR (Radiation Oncology) Dates:
September 10 - October 1, 2007 Real-time sessions: Mondays, September 10, 17 and 24; 9:30 - 11:30 pm ET (Tuesdays, 01:30 - 03:30 am GMT) CE Hours: 6 Tuition:
Member/$100, Non-Member/$169 by August 27, 2007;
Member/$111, Non-Member/$188 after August 27, 2007 Required Textbook: None Recommended Textbooks: Available in the VIN Bookstore: (Be sure to login to receive your member discount) Small Animal Clinical Oncology, 4th edition - Withrow, Vail - 2007
Available in the VIN bookstore Feline Oncology - Ogilvie, Moore - 2001 Managing the Canine Cancer Patient - Ogilvie, Moore - 2006 To find out more about this course:
Visit the Radiation and Surgical Oncology page. To register, scroll to the bottom of the course information page and choose the Enroll Now link.
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