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Get Up Close and Personal with the VIN Family at WVC 2016
If you're heading to the Western Veterinary Conference this month, stop by and visit with teams from the VIN Foundation (booth 529) and VINx (VetTools, PetTools and eVetSites -- booth 1708) to learn more about the awesome programs and services available (see the map in this discussion). Don't forget to enter the drawings to win a TV or an iPad mini before you head over to join fellow VINners in the VIN Lounge!

The VIN Lounge will be at the Mandalay Bay South Convention Center -- behind the Cyber Café in the Breakers registration hallway. This map shows the location of the VIN Lounge and explains all the fun, refreshments, and opportunities to relax or bond in the VIN Lounge.

VIN Lounge Hours:

• Monday, March 7, 9 - 6 p.m.
• Tuesday, March 8, 9 - 6 p.m.
• Wednesday, March 9, 9 - 5 p.m.

As a special bonus, if you stop by, Paul will be happy to help you add mobile.vin.com, with four drug formularies, to your phone.

NEWS THAT'S FIT TO CLICK, reported for YOU...

• Mediation set for veterinarian accused of killing cat is posted
  Public | VIN | Discussion
• Dog flu relatively new but not novel
  Public | VIN | Discussion
• Student borrowers not 'excessive' or 'frugal'
  Public | VIN | Discussion
• Personal perils of rural practice
  VIN | Discussion

Evolving stories:
- Is there an association between veterinary practice and De Quervain syndrome?
- Of stethoscopes and hearing aids
- Beware of Neoplasene

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E-mail Reporters@vin.com.

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New and Revised Articles to Share With Your Clients!

Veterinary Partner

• Classifying Cushing's Syndrome: Pituitary vs Adrenal (revised)

Texas Farm Radio

• Eliminating Sand from the Horse’s GI Tract (revised)

VetzInsight

• When Love Hurts: Demystifying a Cat’s Love Bites

Equine Odontoclastic Tooth Resorption and Hypercementosis: Histopathologic Features
Equine odontoclastic tooth resorption and hypercementosis (EOTRH) is a painful progressive condition of older horses that involves multiple teeth, including canines and incisors.

Anti-Müllerian hormone as a diagnostic tool for ovarian remnant syndrome in bitches
The present study demonstrated that the serum AMH level is substantially lower in spayed than in both intact bitches and bitches with ORS. According to this result, measurement of the serum AMH level is a useful tool for diagnosis of ORS in bitches.

Flexible Gastrointestinal Endoscopy in Ferrets (Mustela putorius furo)
This review describes patient preparation, equipment, and select gastrointestinal endoscopy techniques in ferrets, including esophagoscopy, gastroscopy, duodenoscopy, percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy, jejunoileoscopy, colonoscopy, and biopsy.

Will Bee Ingestion Cause Anaphylaxis In A Dog That Has A History Of Bee Sting Allergy?
The bee venom is a protein which would be broken down quickly in the stomach. So very unlikely it would cause an allergic reaction.

How Can Clients' Trust And Patience Be Kept During Long Workups?
No matter what you do, there will be some frustration in spending lots of money and getting no diagnosis.

Large Urine-Filled Tubular Structure Found During Surgical Exploration Of A Dog
Urine filled tubular structure attaches at left side of bladder and tracts up towards left kidney where it can no longer be seen in perirenal fat.

Owner Gave Dog Curcumin And Ibuprofen: Any Problems Likely?
Both curcumin and ibuprofen have anti-platelet effects, so there is a potential for coagulation abnormalities.

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VIN Student Rounds
Sunday, March 6 - 7 p.m. ET
(Monday, March 7 - Midnight GMT)
Join Tony Bartels, DVM, for Student Loan Repayment and the New REPAYE Program.
NOTE the early start time!
*This session will feature audio. Take the readiness test before attending.

Venting Over a Venti
Tuesday, March 8 - 9:30 p.m. ET
(Wednesday, March 9 - 2:30 a.m. GMT)
Need to vent about student issues?
Christina McRae, DVM, and other colleagues are here to lend an ear.

How to Use VIN, Part 2
Wednesday, March 9 - 9:30 p.m. ET
(Thursday, March 10 - 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.

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Want to See What You've Been Missing?
(@ = VINcast available; R = Replay available)

• Low Cobalamin Levels: A Review of the Problem and What's New Journal Club
• Prehospital Care - Does it Exist? VECCS (R) Interim
• Glaucoma is NOT a Tonopen Number! @ (R) Interim
• Recent Compelling and Clinically Relevant JFMS Updates AAFP (R)

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Terrified of Retirement
How realistic is it to refuse to retire? Do we have to call it a day...ever? Veterinary medicine might not be perfect, but sitting idle, reading predictable long-winded novels, and anticipating the next meal seems infinitely worse than expressing infected anal glands right now.

Book Review of the Week
Slatter’s Fundamentals of Veterinary Ophthalmology, Fifth Edition
Catch up on previous Book Reviews!

Website of the Week
Environmental Health Maps

New Medical FAQ
Capturing Close-up Clinical Images of Interest

New Quick Poll:
(Look for it on the lower left side of the VIN Front Page.)
Does your practice/ do you allow clients to record videos of examinations or procedures?

Visit the Archived Quick Polls page to participate in previous Quick Poll questions and view results.

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 which upcoming conferences VIN will be attending. Be sure to stop by the Cyber Café and/or other VIN booths if you’re attending WVC, SAVMA, BSAVA, Voorjaarsdagen, CVC Virginia Beach, European Congress of Veterinary Dentistry, ECVO, IAAAM, or AVA.

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

Exotic Small Mammal Medicine
March 22 - April 15, 2016

This course provides an overview of the common diseases seen in small exotic mammals. We will discuss handling techniques, presentation, clinical signs, diagnostics, treatment and lesions of common diseases in hamsters, mice, rats, gerbils, guinea pigs, chinchillas, rabbits, ferrets, sugar gliders, groundhogs and hedgehogs.

Neonatal Wildlife Medicine
April 5 - May 13, 2016

The primary purpose of this course is to provide a basic understanding of the principles of care for neonatal North American wildlife. The course will include details on the common syndromes and diseases with which orphaned or abducted wildlife patients present to a clinic, the approach to triage, emergency treatment and monitoring of the wildlife patient, the most notable infectious and non-infectious diseases of wildlife, and the public health and legal implications of treating wildlife.

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