Client Grief - What do you do?
How do you help clients cope with the loss of a pet? Click the survey link on VIN's Front Page, and give your colleagues some ideas. Two NEW Proceedings on VIN!
Time to Update Your Library?
The NEW & IMPROVED VIN Bookstore has everything from Alternative Medicine to Zoonoses from all your favorite information sources. Featured Item:
The Canine and Feline Neurological Examination CD-ROM
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authored by Dr. Joane Parent (DMV, MVetSc, ACVIM Neurology) this CD-ROM makes learning to do a neurological exam fun and easy. Find it in the VINstore.
Nursing sickness in the mink--a metabolic mystery or a familiar foe?
Morbidity due to nursing sickness can be as high as 15%, with mortality around 8%, but the incidence is known to vary from year to year. Stress has been shown to trigger the onset of the disease and old females and females with large litters are most often affected. It is suggested that the underlying cause of mink nursing sickness is the development of acquired insulin resistance with 3 contributing key elements: obesity (or lipodystrophy), n-3 fatty acid deficiency, and high protein oxidation rate.
Comparison of two treatments for preventing dogs eating their own faeces
The behavioural problem was reduced most effectively in the dogs treated with the spray collar, and continued to decrease during the period of treatment.
Tiludronate as a new therapeutic agent in the treatment of navicular disease: a double-blind placebo-controlled clinical trial
Horses treated with the higher dose showed optimal improvement of lameness and return to normal level of activity 2-6 months post treatment. The more recent the onset of clinical signs at the time of treatment, the greater the efficacy. The treatment did not modify the response to extension and flexion tests. The lower dose failed to significantly improve the condition.
An angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitor, benazepril can be transformed to an active metabolite, benazeprilat, by the liver of dogs with ascitic pulmonary heartworm disease
Plasma ACE activities decreased after administration of benazepril. In dogs with ascitic heartworm disease, benazepril was readily transformed to benazeprilat by the liver, and was effective for suppression of plasma ACE activity.
Compounding Pharmacy Problems
The client called the compounding pharmacy from whom we ourselves buy the drug. Guess what? The compounder sells directly to clients at the exact same price they charge us!
Radiographic Cases: GI Foreign Body, FIP, Fibrinous Peritonitis
What do you see ...
Splitting Up Vaccine Schedule
How are people integrating 3 year vaccine schedules? Are they splitting vaccines up: distemper one year, parvo the next, etc.?
IBD And Cobalamin Levels
What the GI Lab at Texas found is that, for cats, cobalamin levels greater than 280 ng/L were never cobalamin-deficient at the tissue level, but if the level was less than 280 ng/L, there was a 68% probability of tissue-level cobalamin deficiency. The conclusion was that if the cat's cobalamin concentration was close to the lower limit of normal, then we should supplement with parenteral cobalamin.
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 Sunday Rounds
Sunday, September 14, 10 pm ET -
Join Donn Griffith, DVM, MS, Cert IVAS, for Alternatives To Corticosteroids.
Rounds Room
Virtual Coffeehouse
Tuesday, September 16, 9:30 pm ET -
What really bad movies have you seen lately? Stop by, and share!
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How To Course: Part 3
Wednesday, September 17, 9:30 pm ET -
Learn how to use VIN's searchable database and all that VIN provides. Email Nate@VIN.com for more information about this free three-part course.
Rounds Room
Recent Rounds
* FIV: Afraid of a Positive
* Aussie Rounds: Management Of Diabetes In Dogs
* What We Learned at ACVIM 2003: Part 2
* Canine Hemangiosarcoma
* My South African Travelogue
* What We Learned at ACVIM 2003: Part 1
 Abstract Of The Week:
An Epizootic of Highly Virulent Feline Calicivirus
Website Of The Week:
Parasitic Diseases of Domestic Animals, and more....
Book Review:
Tarantulas Of Belize
eVetSites Tip of the Week:
Submitting Your Site To Search Engines
Survey of The Week Results:
* Grape/Raisin
* Consumer Reports
* ACE Inhibitor Use in Dogs
* Imaging & Telemedicine
* Nasal Mites
* Euthanasia Procedures
* FATE
* Veterinary Career Survey, Part 1
From the Boards:
* A-a Gradient Formula
* ProHeart Reactions?
* Repair Of Beak Deviation
* Charity Fund-Raisers
Strategies for Success: Maximizing Practice Performance through Staff
- Do you know the secrets to finding and hiring great employees?
- Have you figured out the sure-fire ways to get superior performance from your current employees?
- Do you know how to keep the great employees you already have?
You can learn all these and more from VIN's Strategies For Success: Maximizing Practice Performance Through Staff. Staffing veterinary practices is a huge headache. Take this CE course and get some relief! Instructors:
Drs. Don Draper, Dennis McCurnin Dates: October 2 - November 6, 2003
Interactive sessions: Thursdays, 9:30-11:30 PM ET Course Description:
One of the keys to practice success is to have employees performing in ways that produce exceptional results. Employee management principles, methods, and strategies are presented in this course. Participants will learn how to recruit, hire, motivate and retain employees. Other topics that will be covered include: creation of a practice management team, development of an employee policy manual, employing conflict resolution procedures and tools for solving problems. To Enroll: Visit the Strategies for Success: Maximizing Practice Performance through Staff course page and click on the Enroll now link.
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