New Sections in the Image Library
The Image Library is continuing to grow by leaps and pixels! Take a few minutes to browse all the great images in the Cardiology, Dermatology, Parasitology, Radiology and Urology/Nephrology sections of the Image Library. Compare your case to a known diagnosis, see examples of a particular lesion or finding, and learn what certain conditions look like. The Image Library lives in the Multimedia section of the Main Library and can be reached through any Specialty Center page.
New Feature On The VIN Front Page
In response to VINner requests, now when you find a Journal or Boards Clinical Update on the VIN Front Page that piques your interest, you can click on the small icon at the end of the title to open that item in a new window! Try it -- you'll probably like it -- either way -- let us know: Feedback@vin.com .
Note: Clicking on the title itself will still replace the current window as it did before.
Bumping Into Your Colleagues? Log Out!
If you work in a multi-doctor practice, you want to make sure you are accessing and posting under your own name so you can enjoy your own personalized settings and MyStuff. Logging out will also keep you and your colleagues from accidentally impersonating each other. This hasn't always been an easy task. The solution is to set http://Beta.vin.com as the way you enter VIN. The new VIN security system we are testing on Beta.vin.com has a log out function on every page as well as on the secondary security page. Please give http://Beta.vin.com a good work out. BETA.VIN.COM
- where cool VINners hang out!
We promise that everything we ask you to test on http://Beta.vin.com has gone through rigorous testing by many VINners -- and will not cause you to experience the headaches that can come with early versions of software. Beyond being the first to enjoy new features that will enhance your VIN experience -- your feedback and suggestions will help the VIN Wizards put the final touches on new VIN features and speed moving them to http://WWW.vin.com . And as always, please let us know if you find any problems using either http://WWW.vin.com or http://Beta.vin.com.
NEWS THAT'S FIT TO CLICK and discuss
News reported for YOU...
EVOLVING STORIES
- Debate ensues concerning VIN access for non-veterinarians
- Veterinarian warns colleagues about online company's business practices 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. VIN News Service Needs Your Feedback 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. Now you can follow VNS on Twitter! Simply click the "Send request" button to prompt the (VNS) crew to accept you as a follower.
New and Revised
(Share these with your clients!) Texas Farm Radio
Bats in the bedroom, bats in the belfry: Reanalysis of the rationale for rabies postexposure prophylaxis
Human rabies acquired through bedroom exposure to a bat while sleeping and without recognized contact is rare. Conversely, such exposures are not uncommon in the population, and the resources required for associated 1990s to offer rabies postexposure prophylaxis (RPEP) are orders of magnitude higher than those required for most interventions that are considered to be reasonable. Current RPEP recommendations related to occult bat contact should be reconsidered.
A review of sentinel lymph node evaluation and the need for its incorporation into veterinary oncology
The sentinel lymph node (SLN) is a reliably sensitive and specific indicator of the actual extent of metastatic disease in a patient. Its assessment increases accuracy in patient staging, thus ensuring that patients who may have been staged without nodal involvement in the absence of proper SLN evaluation will now receive the benefit of appropriate therapy.
Proteomic identification and profiling of canine lymphoma patients
These markers in conjunction with the bioinformatic algorithm provide the foundation for the development of novel veterinary diagnostic assays (either in isolation, e.g., antibody-based methodologies or in combination, for the detection of lymphoma). These markers have the potential to monitor response to chemotherapy.
Ureteral jets (explanation and video)
I don't know what happened here because the client is usually very good about coming back when told and she did not come back in the requested 7 days but 14. So, she only had Clavamox for 1 week but we did recheck the urine again (via cysto). U/A did come back with rod bacteria and SpG of 1.008 (RBC's and WBC's were WNL). Covering vet put her on Baytril for 2 weeks and we rechecked a U/A and culture and continued Baytril for another week while waiting for culture results. U/A was WNL, culture was negative. Saw her again 4/23/09 for incontinence.
Sedating a rodeo bull
I'm still alive and have all my parts! I called the rodeo people and asked them to have their veterinarian call me to establish a treatment plan. Since I work primarily on small animals I wanted to confer with someone who actually knew the temperment of the stock. I never heard back from them, but it was great to have all the reference information supplied by Becky.
Intranasal Bordetella vaccine was given subcutaneously: When can I give it correctly?
I'm assuming any time would be fine, but are there any ideas about whether the previous vaccine gave a response?
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 Virtual Coffeehouse
Tuesday, September 15, 9:30 p.m. EDT
(Wednesday, September 16, 1:30 a.m. GMT/UTC)
Stop by and chat with your fellow VIN addicts!
How To Use VIN: Part 3
Wednesday, September 16, 9:30 p.m. EDT
Thursday, September 17, 1:30 a.m. GMT/UTC)
Learn how to use VIN's Knowledgebase.
Email Nate@VIN.com for more information about this free, three-session course.
Sunday Rounds
Sunday, September 20, 10 p.m. EDT
(Monday, September 21, 2 a.m. GMT/UTC)
Join Bronwyn Rutland, BSc (VB), BVMS (Hons) for Updates In The Medical Management Of Feline Hyperthyroidism.
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.
This Week's Rounds Schedule
Use the Rounds link to join these discussions.
@ = VINCast available for this session
Get More From VIN
"How to Use VIN" resources:
The three-part "How To Use VIN" course can be taken live (on the first three Wednesday nights of each month), or you can do it as self study. If you'd like to take the live sessions, e-mail Nate at Nate@VIN.com, and tell him you'd like to sign up for the How To Course. To keep up with VIN's growth, take the time to explore the Front Page at least once a week, read the VIN This Week (VINTW) newsletter twice a week, explore the VINDEX (VIN's Front Page, right hand column or Ctrl+E on your keyboard) and click all the buttons on VIN's navigation bars.
Got Staff?
The Veterinary Support Personnel Network was created specifically for your technicians, practice managers and other staff members to have access to their own message boards, chats and CE. Have your staff go to www.vspn.org to register! It's free!
 Book Review of the Week
Textbook of Veterinary Internal Medicine, Volume 2
Purchase it in the VIN Bookstore!
Website of the Week
Cranial Nerves from Yale and more...
eVetsites Tip of the Week
Basics of a Website
What's Your Diagnosis?
Archives of the Challenging and Fun Cases
Ophthalmology Fun 92
Zoonosis Case 35
Associate - Updated and New:
Scottie Cramp (canine)
Explore the rest of Associate!
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: SWVS, ACVS, ACVC, WWVC, VCS, ACVR, AAZV, VDF and AAFP.
VIN addiction
"Dang it! I logged on just to check on one of my posts. Now I've been here for over an hour, my bath water is cold and I missed 'Rescue Me'. Is there a 12 step program for this?"
NOW OPEN FOR ENROLLMENT!
Click on the links below to see the details, register and find more upcoming CE.
Exotic and Emerging Animal Diseases: Remembering the Zebras
October 7 - November 18, 2009 This course will review the major exotic and emerging animal diseases, emphasizing the clinical signs and gross lesions of these diseases in various species and the role of the practitioner and other professionals. Major emphasis will be placed on including exotic diseases in the differential diagnosis of various clinical presentations and the importance of laboratory support for the diagnosis of both "horses and zebras." 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. Continuing Education for your staff!
Exceptional Client Skills Front Desk Module 1
September 24 - October 31, 2009 Challenges Facing the Front Desk Module 2
October 29 - November 28, 2009 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. Now you can follow VIN CE and VSPN on Twitter! Simply click the "Send request" button to prompt the (VIN/VSPN) crews to accept you as a follower.
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