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Cramming for Exams?
The approaching holidays mean exams are approaching for many vet students. The Student Question of the Day now allows you to take all 381 questions at once. Use them to review for final exams, board exams, or just for fun!
VIN Member Slide Presentations and Movies
Check out the VIN Member Slide Presentations and Movies. Your fellow VINners have provided these to help you explore different areas of veterinary medicine. If you would like to donate pictures suitable for slideshows or movies, please email VINDatabase@VIN.com. How To Use VIN -- The Movie!
If you've ever wished for a guided tour of VIN, your wish has been granted! We built it to help orient veterinary students to VIN -- but it ISN'T JUST FOR STUDENTS! The How To Use VIN Video is now available. The video covers many aspects of how to get the most from VIN. Please send us feedback about how you like it. VIN Has the Tools and Information!
Looking for some great material for your clients?
Tell all your clients about Veterinary Partner! It's a great online resource for your clients -- from a source you trust -- and it's FREE (no cost to use it; no commercial messages!)
Animal Behavior Case of the Month
The diagnosis for most authors seems to rely almost exclusively on owner reports, and the actual behaviors of dogs are rarely videotaped to confirm the diagnosis or assess the response to treatment. Inaccurate categorization could explain the discrepancy in opinions on how to treat separation anxiety as well as explain some treatment failures.
Outcome of Accelerated Radiotherapy Alone or Accelerated Radiotherapy Followed by Exenteration of the Nasal Cavity in Dogs with Intranasal Neoplasia: 53 Cases (1990-2002)
Overall median survival time for dogs in the radiotherapy and surgery group (47.7 months) was significantly longer than time for dogs in the radiotherapy-only group (19.7 months).
Protein-Losing Nephropathy
Although conventional urine strips not specifically made for detecting canine and feline albumin can be used, they are semiquantitative and have a substantial number of false-positive and false-negative results compared with species-specific ELISAs.
Managing Guttural Pouch Disease in Adult Horses: Surgical Treatment of Guttural Pouch Empyema and Mycosis
Approximately 20% of horses with guttural pouch empyema do not respond adequately to medical management and must be treated surgically using an approach that provides good ventral drainage.
Dog Killed A Woodchuck Then Licked A Child: Any Risk Of Rabies Transmission?
Any mammal (warm-blooded animal) can get rabies. But prey animals are less likely to be carrying rabies simply because if they're attacked by a predator, they usually get killed -- not just minorly bitten to go off and incubate the disease.
Diffuse Iris Melenoma: Diagnostic And Treatment Options, When To Enucleate
Slit lamp evaluation looks for thickening and change in texture of the iris tissue, along with cellular exfoliation. These are clues which are suggestive of malignant transformation, but the only true determinant of malignancy is the pathologist's evaluation of the eye.
Controlling Excessive Tail Wagging
I have a client with a yellow lab that has one of the most powerful tail wags I have ever seen. It has knocked her small children over and lately has split on the tip -- creating a shower of blood all over the house ...
Living Motor-Mount
This is one of the craziest things I've ever seen; it would be pretty cool, except it may kill the horse. The client tells the receptionist that the horse rolled over and has a motor stuck in his back. Sure enough, he does.
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 AAFP Rounds
Sunday, November 20, 8 pm ET
Join Tony Buffington, DVM, MS, PhD, DACVN, for Feline Stress And Its Role In Inflammatory Disease.
To attend this session, go to the AAFP Rounds area and click on Classroom.
Exotic Animal Journal Club
Sunday, November 20, 9 pm ET
Please join us to discuss the paper: "Incidence Of Adverse Events In Ferrets Vaccinated With Distemper Or Rabies Vaccine" (J Am Vet Med Assoc 2003;223:663-665) Sep 1'03.
A new article will be discussed each month.
Learn how to receive the full text article and attend the session.
Sunday Rounds
Sunday, November 20, 10 pm ET
Join Howard Rubin, MBA for a discussion on Practice Benchmarks.
This Week's Rounds Schedule -- use the Rounds link to join the discussion.
Virtual Coffeehouse
Tuesday, November 22, 9:30 pm ET
So, what are you doing to celebrate Autumn and Thanksgiving? Stop by and share!
This Week's Rounds Schedule -- use the Coffeehouse link to join the discussion. Recent Rounds
 Abstract Of The Week:
Geographic Distribution of Babesiosis Among Dogs and Association with Dog Bites
What's Your Diagnosis?
* What Are These Opacities?
* Monthly Veterinary Challenge
* Case Archives
Website Of The Week:
Pandemic Flu information and more ...
Book Review of the Week:
Recent Advances in Animal Nutrition, 2004
You can find it in the VIN Bookstore.
Get More From VIN!
* Steps To A More Effective Search
* Read The "How To Use VIN" Tutorial
* How Can I ... Learn Associate?
eVetsites Tip of the Week:
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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: ACVR, NAVC, and WVC.
From the Boards:
* Avian Influenza
* Giraffe Hemodynamics
* Cavalier With Gelatinous Otitis Media
* Working Around Anesthesia Limitations In Afghanistan
Problems in Diabetic Therapy: When Managing Sugar Diabetes Is Not So Sweet
This is a FREE CE course starting November 30, sponsored by Intervet! Problems in Diabetic Therapy is intended to be a practical course in insulin therapy, including types and sources of insulin, choosing the right insulin product for a patient, how to start canine patients on and transition patients to Vetsulin (or other insulin), use and interpretation of blood glucose curves, Somogyi effect, role of clients' perceptions of clinical signs in monitoring therapy, roles of nutrition and exercise, and what to expect when managing diabetic patients with Vetsulin. Instructors:
Deborah Greco, DVM, Ph.D, Dipl. ACVIM
J. Catharine Scott-Moncrieff, DVM, MS, Dipl. ECVIM, Dipl. RCVS, Dipl. ACVIM
Karen Duncan, DVM, MS, Dipl. ABVT Dates:
November 30 - December 7, 2005
Real-time session: Wednesday evening, November 30; 9:30-11:00 pm ET CE Hours: 1.5 Tuition and Enrollment:
FREE -- Attendance does not require enrollment. Attendance at the real-time session is open to ALL veterinarians and veterinary students. - If you do not want to participate for CE credit, it is not necessary to enroll in advance.
- Enrollment is only necessary if you wish to be eligible for CE credit.
Please remember that all VIN members will have access to the transcript and course library materials, so it is not necessary to enroll if you would just like access to this information. To Enroll (only necessary for CE credit eligibility):
Visit the Problems in Diabetic Therapy page and click on the Enroll Now link. Catch up on previous Free CE course materials.
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