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Strategies for Success:
Client Attraction and Retention

Do you have THE KIND of clients you want?
Do you have AS MANY clients as you need?
Do you know how TO KEEP the clients you like?

No problem!
VIN can help!

Strategies for Success: Client Attraction and Retention will teach you how to find, nurture, and hold on to the clients you desire. This 5 week course will cover: Who Are Our Clients?, Improving Interactions With Clients, Promoting Your Practice Internally, Mass Media And Community Activities, and Implementing A Client Attraction/Retention Strategy. If you want to learn more, sign up for this course with Don Draper, DVM, PhD, MBA and Dennis McCurnin, DVM, DAVCVS.

BREAKING NEWS on the VIN Message Boards
Ferret Vena Cava Occlusion
Be the first on your block to learn about an ongoing study at University of Pennsylvania to define the effects of Ferret Vena Caval Occlusion to help us better understand how to surgically manage adrenal tumors in ferrets.

Diagnosis and Therapeutic Management of Lead Toxicosis in Falcons in Saudi Arabia
Radiographic findings alone are not sufficient to diagnose lead toxicosis in falcons. The LeadCare Blood Lead Testing System can be successfully used to determine blood lead concentrations up to 65 ug/dl as part of the overall diagnostic workup of lead toxicosis.

Pulmonary Mycobacteriosis Caused by Mycobacterium haemophilum and M marinum in a Royal Python
Mycobacteriosis is an uncommon and sporadic pyogranulomatous disease of reptiles. Mycobacterium haemophilium infection is zoonotic.

Chest Tube and Heparinized Flushing
Heparin does not dissolve preformed fibrin in blood clots. It does prevent new clot formation, but - unless there was significant active bleeding into the chest - I don't see clot formation being a major problem. In fact, if there IS significant ongoing bleeding into the chest, the last thing I'd want to do is prevent clots!

Feline Shock Treatment: Fluids, But No Steroids?
So, the bottom line is that there is probably a subset of patients with shock that would benefit from steroids--but we don't know the who and the when yet.

How To Course, Part 3
Wednesday, August 21, 9:30 pm ET -
Learn how to use VIN's knowledgebase in part 3 of this FREE 3 part course. Email Nate@VIN.com to sign up.
Rounds Room

Sunday Rounds
Sunday, August 25, 10 pm ET -
Join Joni Freshman, DVM, Diplomate, ACVIM, for Neonatal Care! If you want to read the handout in advance, click here.
Rounds Room

What's Your Diagnosis?
Illness After Vacation

Speak Out:
Backlash Against Irresponsible Pet Owners

Recent Rounds:
Associates Hard to Find?

From the Boards:
* Declaw Analgesia
* Necrotizing Mastitis After Weaning
* Horse IUD?
* Homemade Diet Questions

Organ System and ABVP Core Examination Review, Module C

Does your heart race when trying to decipher those cardiology problems?
Does your stomach churn when faced with a tricky gastroenterology case?
Does your skin crawl when a chronic dermatology case walks through your door?

VIN can help!
VIN's Organ System and ABVP Core Examination Review, Module C (MULT203-0902), will help you understand why the cardiology, respiratory, dermatology, endocrinology, and gastroenterology systems do what they do.

TO REGISTER: Visit Organ System and ABVP Core Examination Review, Module C and click on the Enroll now link.