The text and library of accompanying sound recordings will aid your interpretation of normal and abnormal heart sounds and PCGs and may help with your everyday workup of cardiac cases. Look for the sound-players located throughout the text.

Browse chapters using the Table of Contents or Search by topic.

Want a version that's available offline? The book with CD is available from the VIN Bookstore. (Remember to login so you get your VIN Member discount.)

How to Establish a Blood Bank
Establishing a blood bank can ensure that there is an available supply of blood, plasma, and platelets sufficient to meet a clinic’s transfusion needs. Wondering where to begin?

VIN consultant Dr. Sally Lester (with videos by Dr. Joe Musielak) has created a Blood Banking Manual to help you answer this question. Thanks Sally (and Joe)!

Find the Blood Banking Manual in the Books section of the VIN Library and in the Hematology & Emergency Medicine Specialty Centers.

New Video Uploader for Message Boards
Thanks to the VIN Geeks, you no longer have to email your video to VIN staff and wait for it to be posted for you - now you can upload your own videos to the message boards and be automatically subscribed to the discussion.

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Beta.vin.com helps speed the testing and release of new features which are destined for 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, reported for YOU...

• Resolve to review student-loan payment strategy
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• A time for introspection
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• MWI sale reflects trend in pet-related industries
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• Veterinarians urge AVMA to spin off accrediting body
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• Interceptor parasite preventive returning to market
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Evolving Stories
- Shelter animal supply and demand

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New and Revised Articles to Share With Your Clients!

Veterinary Partner

• Get the Facts about Pain Relievers for Pets by FDA (updated)

Texas Farm Radio

• Feeding Your Horse (revised)

VetzInsight

• Why Whiskers is Whisked off to the Back Room

Knowledge, attitudes and practices of primary care physicians in the Franche-Comte region (France) regarding the risk of rabies
Responses to the seven clinical situations showed that most of them did not know the precise indication for the rabies vaccine and rabies immunoglobulin. Primary care physicians are usually aware of the risk of rabies, but their knowledge of how to manage rabies exposure and prevention often requires updating.

Primary anestrus due to dietary hyperthyroidism in a miniature pinscher bitch
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An intact bitch that had been on a bones and raw foods diet since birth showed no signs of estrus despite a 40-day course of cabergoline. Change in diet and treatment with oral cabergoline resulted in signs of proestrus in 13 days, pregnancy, and normal birth of 5 puppies.

Partial parasagittal patellectomy: a novel method for augmenting surgical correction of patellar luxation in four cats
We report a novel surgical technique - partial parasagittal patellectomy - to address the wide shape of the feline patella relative to the sulcus. This technique has been successfully performed in four cats with good outcomes. However, the immediate risks and long-term effects of partial parasaggital patellectomy are not known.

Likelihood Of Garlic/Onion Poisoning; Is Garlic More Toxic Than Onion?
When it comes to Allium species, the stronger the odor/flavor, the more toxic it is. The intensity is related to the sulfide levels, so a 'hot' (strong) white onion is more toxic than a sweet (mild) Vidalia onion, and garlic is much more toxic than either.

When Should A Puppy That Started Heartworm Preventative At Five Months Of Age Have Its First Heartworm Test?
Heartworm preventatives kill third and fourth stage larvae. They are used monthly because the third and fourth stage larvae are running around in the dog's body for at least that long.

When Should I Start Oral Or Inhaled Glucocorticoids For A Young Coughing Cat With A Bronchial Pattern?
This two year old cat has presented for two asthmatic attacks that were a year apart. What frequency of asthmatic attacks warrants the initiation of inhalant therapy?

Does Depression Occur In Shelter Dogs?
Because some of the diagnostic criteria for clinical depression (feelings of worthlessness, excessive or inappropriate guilt, and recurring thoughts of death or suicide) cannot be applied to non-human animals (at least not at this point), we can't say that animals are clinically depressed.

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How to Use VIN, Part 3
Wednesday, February 18 - 9:30 p.m. ET
(Thursday, February 19 - 2:30 a.m. GMT)
The VIN Representative Committee will show you how to get more out of your VIN experience.
Email HowTo@VIN.com for more information about this free, three-session course.

VIN Rounds
Sunday, February 22 - 8 p.m. ET
(Monday, February 23 - 1 a.m. GMT)
Join Sandra Mitchell, DVM, DABVP, for Rodent Dentistry Basics: Working in Mouths where the Teeth Don’t Stop Growing.
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Older Vets, Biggest Personal Changes In Practicing
So as the age creeped in, my patience crept out. I still am in full control and I haven't gone ballistic on anybody or any pet. If I ever do that I'l quit that day.

So, you DVMs who have been at it for decades, what personal changes (not in the medicine here) have you seen in yourselves?

Book Review of the Week
Illustrated Veterinary Anatomical Nomenclature, Third revised Edition
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Website of the Week
American College Of Veterinary Behaviorists

Associate - New, Updated & Revised
Vaginal/Vulvar Neoplasia:
Canine (revised)
Feline (new)
Bone Neoplasia:
Canine
Feline
Explore the rest of Associate!

From the Medical FAQs
Vertebral Heart Size (revised)

Upcoming Conferences
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British Humor
These are classified ads, which were actually placed in U.K. Newspapers:

FREE YORKSHIRE TERRIER.
8 years old,
Hateful little bastard.

FREE PUPPIES
1/2 Cocker Spaniel, 1/2 sneaky neighbor's dog.

FREE PUPPIES.
Mother is a Kennel Club registered German Shepherd.
Father is a Super Dog, able to leap tall fences in a single bound.

NOW OPEN FOR ENROLLMENT!
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Pet Bird Medicine
March 15 - April 8, 2015

FREE for veterinary students and veterinarians who graduated in 2012 or later. This is a basic presentation of how to approach birds in practice, including a review of the common disease conditions by pet bird species (psittacines and select finches), common clinical signs for many diseases, and commonly used diagnostic tests.

Oncology and Tumor Pathology I
April 7 - June 5, 2015

This course will familiarize participants with the current state of tumor diagnosis and prognosis as well as therapeutic interventions. Following an overview of principles and advances in surgical pathology and an introduction to clinical oncology, the course will cover canine mast cell tumors, canine and feline lymphomas, endocrine tumors, and tumors of the urinary tract.

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