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Try VIN's New Survey System!

It's fun and you get instant feedback showing how your responses compare to those of your VIN colleagues. Click the link on VIN's Front Page and add your experience to the "pool". That's what VIN is all about. (We don't want to give away the topic but here's a hint: You mite like it a lot!)

Wound Management Using Sugar
Sugar dressings reduce the need for surgical debridement because sugar draws macrophages, which cleanse the wound, and accelerates sloughing of devitalized tissue.

Equine Dental Prophylaxis Using a Pneumatic System
Pneumatic tools designed for equine dentistry offer many advantages over other tools, including less physical exertion for the practitioner, less oral trauma, and no production of heat or dust.

Epidural Analgesia in Ferrets
No signs of nausea have been observed in over 40 ferrets receiving epidural morphine at 0.1 mg/kg, and no neurologic anomalies have resulted from the procedure.

West Nile Statistics, Horses, 2001
In 2001, there were 738 cases of clinical West Nile virus (WNV) infection reported in horses from 130 counties in 20 states. Of the 738 reported, 651 cases were verified through diagnostic testing at the National Veterinary Services Laboratories of USDA-APHIS. Of those, 640 were classified as confirmed cases and 11 as probable cases.

Vaccine Associated Fibrosarcoma
To have any semblance of a fighting chance, this aggressive tumor must be treated aggressively with multimodality therapy. Otherwise, it is doomed to serial debulkings with a shorter and shorter inter-debulking time.

African Grey Wing Web Dermatitis
I think that many times these wing web dermatitis cases start with behavioral picking. So even if you clear up the dermatitis, you haven't dealt with the primary problem - why is the bird picking/mutilating. That needs to be addressed, too.

Virtual Coffeehouse
Tuesday, November 12, 9:30 pm ET -
What interesting patients did you see today? Stop by and share!
Rounds Room

How To Course, Part 2
Wednesday, November 13, 9:30 pm ET -
Learn how to use your computer and VIN in part 2 of this FREE three part course. Email Nate@VIN.com to sign up. (PSST! Want to get a head start? Check out the How To Course tutorial. It's in the VINDEX on VIN's Front Page!)
Rounds Room

Abstract Of The Week:
Efficacy Of Selamectin In The Treatment Of Naturally Acquired Cheyletiellosis In Cats

Website Of The Week:
Sabbatical Opportunities

Book Review:
Pain Management For Small Animal Practitioner

Recent Rounds:
* To Limp or Not to Limp

From the Boards:
* Pulmonary Masses, Fox
* Post-Whelping Facial Edema
* Anticoagulant Therapy In Feline HCM
* Pyometra?

Intermediate Wildlife Medicine
* Are you presented with wildlife cases on a regular basis?
* Do you think you are "kind of" familiar with the ethical and legal problems of treating wildlife, but you want to know more?
* Have you figured out that you really need more medical knowledge to properly care for injured wild animals? (Remember: It's not what you don't know that will get you, it's what you think you know - but don't!)

VIN CE can help!

VIN's Intermediate Wildlife Medicine CE course is structured for practitioners who are presented with wildlife cases on a regular basis and assumes the practitioner is familiar with the basic principles of avian medicine and surgery. Topics will include: ethical and legal considerations; handling, restraint, and examination; zoonoses and other public health concerns; and triage and treatment of common presentations.

Instructor: Sonia Hernandez-Divers, DVM, Dip. ACZM (Diplomate of the American College of Zoological Medicine)
Dates: Nov 25th - Dec 23rd, 2002

Enroll before November 11 and save!