Legal Specialty Center with
Red Flags Rule Materials
The Red Flags Rule is a hot topic on the boards and a concern for all veterinary practices, so by request, there is a new collection of Red Flags Rule materials that can be found in the new Legal Specialty Center.

Your comments and feedback are welcome as this new specialty center continues to evolve. Please check back regularly for updated information.

The center can be reached through the Specialty Centers page in the VIN Library.

Password Vault
The new MyVIN on Beta.vin.com includes Password Vault -- the antidote for Password Hell!

Front Page > MyVIN > Stuff > Password Vault

No more remembering what site to visit and what username and password to use. Enter them once and your Password Vault remembers this information for many of your journal subscriptions and organization memberships.

Your Password Vault will help you jump right from VIN journal abstracts to the FULL TEXT of articles by logging you in to those sites automatically!

Let us know what you think.

More great new features are making their debut on Beta.vin.com! If you want the latest and greatest and want to be on the "bleeding" edge of where VIN is going, make Beta.vin.com your VIN Homepage.

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

• San Francisco proposal for declaw ban hits unlikey roadblock
  VNS Report | Discussion
• UI clinic opens shop in Chicago
  VNS Report | Discussion
• New microchip search tool debuts
  VNS Report | Discussion
• Following product recalls, Fanconi-like syndrome outbreak abates in Australia
  VNS Report | Discussion
• Online directory earns mixed reviews from veterinarians
  VNS Report | Discussion
• FDA calls Baytril advertising 'misleading'
  Discussion

EVOLVING STORIES
New questions emerge concerning Iverhart recall
Legal issues in compounding incite questions, debate

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!)

• The Nose Doesn't Know
• Vestibular disease revised

Texas Farm Radio

• Warts in Horses

Desmopressin is safer than water deprivation to identify the cause of polyuria and polydipsia in dogs
Even with a desmopressin trial, caution should be exercised in geriatric patients and those having isosthenuria.

Finding and treating oral melanoma, squamous cell carcinoma, and fibrosarcoma in dogs
Poorly pigmented or amelanotic melanomas are examples of tumors that can be challenging to diagnose. Cytology can help in some of these cases, and special stains can be used on histologic samples. The immunohistochemical markers Melan A, vimentin, and S-100 protein can help confirm the diagnosis of melanoma in amelanotic variants as well as in poorly differentiated tumors.

Surgical removal of a descending (small) colon foreign body through a secondary paramedian approach
Intestinal obstruction due to foreign body ingestion is one cause of colic in horses. Although it occurs more frequently in juveniles, adult horses also may be affected. The small colon is a common location in which foreign bodies can be found.

How to prevent clipper burns
Do you ever disassemble the blades? If you do, you'll find blood and hair and nasty stuff in them, even if cleaned diligently. Getting this stuff out, and lubricating the contact surfaces will make them last a lot longer.

Phlebotomy setup
I recently saw a canine patient with a renal tumor (discovered on ultrasound) and a PCV of 87% and performed phlebotomy for 2 days prior to nephrectomy. Removing 500 mL of blood via syringes proved to be very tiring and painful for the techs' hands, so we came up with a unique method.

You know you're still new when...
Reminds me of the bot fly larvae necklace one of my anatomy instructors had. The larvae were painted silver and strung with lavender beads. She'd wear it every time we got to the stomach in Large Animal anatomy lab.

Injectable anesthetic protocols for spaying dogs
I volunteer at a shelter in the Caribbean, running a spay/neuter clinic. Periodically, we're asked to help a neighboring island that has no veterinary service. We're getting pressure to do a short run. We're going without gas inhalation.

Virtual Coffeehouse
Tuesday, September 29, 9:30 p.m. EDT
(Wednesday, September 30, 1:30 a.m. GMT/UTC)
Stop by and chat with your fellow VIN addicts!

This Week's Rounds Schedule
Use the Rounds link to join these discussions.
@ = VINCast available for this session

• Feline Hyperthyroidism
• AV Block
• Vet Tech Specialties @
• VIN Secrets @
• Canine Lymphoma @
• NAVDF 2009 Updates @
• VIN/VSPN Rounds: Hypotension @
• Urinary Catheters @
• Quality Control: Hematology @
• Sedation vs. Anesthesia @
• Managing vs. Cutting Costs @
• Property or Person? @
• High Volume Spay/Neuter @
• Veterinary Quiz Challenge
• Feline Vomiting
• Maintaining Practice Value @
• Herbs, Acupuncture, Massage @
• Cases from the Dermatology Trenches @

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 main VIN Search. 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.

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.

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!

Need Help?
Have questions about your membership? Can't find that reference you need for a tough case? Help is a click, email or phone call away! (Hint: you can find this page anytime by clicking HELP on the main VIN Navigation Bar.)

Book Review of the Week
Career Choices for Veterinary Technicians: Opportunities for Animal Lovers

Website of the Week
Muscle Atlas from the University of Washington and more...

eVetsites Tip of the Week
A Web Page Dimension Primer

What's Your Diagnosis?
Archives of the Challenging and Fun Cases
Zoonosis Case 37

Associate - Updated and New:
Polymicrogyria (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: ACVS, ACVC, WWVC, VCS, ACVR, AAZV, VDF and AAFP.

Urge to laugh at inappropriate time
"Just as I was pushing the plunger on a poor kitty one day, Tom Jones comes on the radio with
"What's New Pussycat?" Tech and I both had to laugh."

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

Shelter Medicine
November 23 - December 21, 2009

This course is designed as an introduction to the field of shelter medicine - for those considering spending time in a shelter, those newly engaged in the profession, or those with an interest in finding out what shelter veterinary medicine is all about!

The course is primarily aimed at a veterinarian with minimal shelter experience but all veterinarians interested are encouraged to enroll. This course includes four, 2-hour real-time sessions and interactive message boards with the instructors.

If you're looking for more information on CE opportunities for veterinary technicians, receptionists or practice managers, please visit the VSPN CE page. VSPN offers courses specifically 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.