• 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. In this 5 week ,10 CE credit course with Don Draper, DVM, PhD, MBA and Dennis McCurnin, DVM, MS, DACVS, you will learn how to recruit, hire, motivate, and retain employees; how to create a practice management team; how to develop an employee policy manual; and how to employ conflict resolution tools for solving problems.

Staffing veterinary practices is a huge headache. Take this CE course and get some relief!

*Credits for this course may be applied toward Certified Veterinary Practice Manager (CVPM) Continual Education requirements by the Veterinary Hospital Manager's Association (VHMA).

Are you going to ACVS?

Stop by VIN's booth (#114) and say hello. We'd love to meet you in person!

Evaluation of Treatment with Doxorubicin and Piroxicam or Doxorubicin Alone for Multicentric Lymphoma in Dogs
The use of piroxicam with doxorubicin for treatment of lymphoma in dogs does not appear to provide an added benefit to the management of this form of cancer.

Tenoscopic-Assisted Treatment of Open Digital Flexor Tendon Sheath Injuries in Horses: 20 Cases (1992-2001)
It appears that the apparent advantages of tenoscopy, which include directed lavage and visually assisted debridement, are important in the final outcome for horses with septic tenosynovitis.

Dog Caught in Electric Fence
Does anyone have any experience with a case like this? Why the low platelets - possibly going into DIC? Is there anything else I should be doing for this dog? Also, why the azotemia - does prolonged electric current basically fry the kidneys and other abdominal organs?

How Do You Weed Out the Deadbeats?
It will never cease to amaze me that - when the owner is told that I will not work on his pet (except to euthanize it) without a good faith deposit - the money miraculously appears.

Virtual Coffeehouse
Tuesday, October 15, 9:30 pm ET -
What unusual cases did you have today? Stop by and share!
Rounds Room

How To Course, Part 3
Wednesday, October 16, 9:30 pm ET -
Learn how to use the Library and Search in part 3 of this FREE three part course. (We'll also take a quick tour through Associate!) Email Nate@VIN.com to sign up. If you cannot attend the live How To sessions, please feel free to use the "tutorial" located in the VINDEX (right hand column, VIN's Front Page).
Rounds Room

Abstract of the Week
Canine Atopic Dermatitis: Part 1. Clinical Features And Allergy Testing Results

Website Of The Week:
Veterinary Technician Week

Recent Rounds:
* What We Know About WNV
* New Grads: What's Your Diagnosis?

Book Review:
Clinical Examination Of Farm Animals

From the Boards:
* West Nile And Dogs
* Feeding A Brain Injured Kitten
* How To Price Surgeries
* Did Boa Give Salmonella To Human?

What's All This About COX, Docs?

• Are you confused by the actions and side effects of COX inhibitors?
• Would you like to UNconfuse yourself while getting FREE CE?

VIN CE can help with the second in a two part series about pain management and the practical application of the new coxib-type COX-2 inhibitors.

In What's All This About COX, Docs?, you will learn the mechanisms by which the newer COX-2 inhibitors may help optimize analgesia in the perioperative period, and how they can be used safely.

Click here to learn more about this FREE CE course.

Review the first in this series: NSAIDs: Understanding their actions and side effects

Thanks to Novartis Animal Health -- Educational Sponsor for these VIN CE events.