• First Aid for Your Pet: Common Ailments and Initial Treatments for Your Pet in Need
• First Aid for Service Dogs
• First Aid for Tracking Dogs

Help your clients be prepared too with Client Education Resources in the VIN Library. VINner Catherine Ashe, DVM, provided these informative client handouts for you to print out or download. Thanks Catherine!

• Congestive Heart Failure
• C-Section
• Diabetic Ketoacidosis
• Enucleation Surgery
• Foreign Body Surgery
• Gastric Dilatation and Volvulus
• Hemoabdomen
• Pyometra
• Shock/Trauma: Treatment and Diagnostics
• Snakebite
• Urethral Obstruction of Male Cats (“blocked cat”)

Find even more no-cost, advertising-free, independent information that you can trust at VeterinaryPartner.com and VetzInsight.com.

Message Board Cliffhangers
VIN message board cases are sometimes the VIN community’s version of a whodunit. Whether you're following along as the case unfolds or reading a case that popped up in a database search, it's frustrating to be left wondering about the outcome.

The amazing VIN Reps are working hard to minimize the number of unresolved message board cases.

Since 2011, they have requested follow-up on over 11,800 message board cases. The response from VINners has been amazing. Updates have been posted on almost 53% of these cases and more VINners are posting follow-ups without prompting!

Together we can minimize unresolved posts. If you forget to post the outcome of your cases, please respond if you get an email requesting an update.

Here are a couple of recent discussions that were updated:

• Equine leg wound follow-up with pictures
• Case resolution that matched radiographic findings

Thank you for letting us all know how the story ends!

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NEWS THAT'S FIT TO CLICK and discuss;
News reported for YOU...

• Appeals court asked to decide free speech element of veterinary case
  Public | VIN | Discussion
• Lawmaker behind proposed Fairness to Pet Owners Act aims to inform consumers
  Public | VIN | Discussion
• A colleague's suicide opens our Pandora's box (Commentary)
  Public | VIN | Discussion
• Help exists for those struggling to pay veterinary bills
  Public | VIN | Discussion

Evolving story:
Are rebate programs worth the time?

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New and Revised Articles to Share
With Your Clients!

Veterinary Partner

• Clostridium difficile

Texas Farm Radio

• Managing Older Horses (revised)

VetzInsight

• On Shaky Legs: Another Look at Foaling Season, Part 3

Sleeping and resting respiratory rates in dogs with subclinical heart disease
"Results suggested that dogs with confirmed subclinical left-sided heart disease of various severities generally had SRRmean < 25 breaths/min, which was infrequently exceeded at any time, and that SRR and RRR remained stable, regardless of individual within-dog SRRmean or RRRmean." [SRRmean: mean sleeping respiratory rate; RRR: resting respiratory rate]

Techniques for collecting blood from the domestic chicken
Phlebotomy (blood collection) is an important diagnostic tool for determining causes of morbidity and mortality and for collection of other research-relevant data.

Conditioning laboratory cats to handling and transport
The authors describe a behavioral protocol used in their laboratory to condition cats to handling and transport. Such behavioral conditioning benefits the welfare of the cats, the safety of animal technicians and the quality of feline research data.

How Should A New Graduate Approach Negotiation Of The Starting Salary?
As a potential employer, I would probably offer the average starting salary. You would then tell me what makes you worth more than your peers.

Limiting Service Area Versus Charging More For House Calls
Can you afford to lose these people, the ones who live too far away? If you can't, then I guess you have to nudge the prices up gently and try to make it work.

Veterinary Assistant Had A Nude Role In A Horror Film: Will This Affect My Business?
Do I have any legal rights? I don't have "don't be naked in movies" in my employee manual.

Poorly Controlled Cushingoid Dog Has Splenic Mass; Plasma/Heparin Protocol For Thrombosis Prevention In Cushingoid Dogs Undergoing Surgical Procedures
We worry about thrombosis in dogs with Cushing's that is not well controlled. Sometimes we give the plasma/heparin protocol...

Monday, March 24 - 9 p.m. ET - VIN/VECCS Rounds
Join Jamie Burkitt-Creedon, DVM, DACVECC, for Getting the Most out of your Blood Pressure Monitor.
*This session will feature audio. Take the readiness test before attending.

Tuesday, March 25 - 9:30 p.m. ET - Venting over a Venti
Need to vent? Michele Gaspar, DVM, DABVP, MA, and other colleagues are here to lend an ear.

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23 Adult Truths (You know who you are...)
"Life just gets better as you get older too? I was in a Starbucks Coffee recently when my stomach started rumbling and I realized that I desperately needed to fart.

The place was packed but the music was really loud so to get relief and reduce embarrassment I timed my farts to the beat of the music. After a couple of songs I started to feel much better. I finished my coffee and noticed that everyone was staring at me…I suddenly remembered that I was listening to my iPod. This is what happens when old people start using technology!"

Book Review of the Week
Maddie’s® Infection Control Manual for Animal Shelters, for Veterinary Personnel
Catch up on previous Book Reviews!

Website of the Week
Tick Identification Key

What's your Diagnosis?
Archives of the Challenging and Fun Cases

Associate - New, Updated & Revised
Canine Head Trauma
Explore the rest of Associate!

New Proceedings
Association of Exotic Mammal Veterinarians Annual Conference (AEMV 2013)

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 websites! Links to information about upcoming conferences include: BSAVA, and Voorjaarsdagen.

If you've ever meant to attend a VIN Rounds session and missed it or didn't know about it in time -- there are several resources that can help remind you:

• Main Rounds page
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• Twitter
• VIN This Week/Weekend
• ... and more.

Read the details here and let us know if you have suggestions!

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

OSHA & Practice Safety 2014
April 7 - July 10, 2014

This course is designed for the practice owner, manager or administrator who wants to understand OSHA's standards as well as learn practical ways to implement them. We attempt to avoid debating the merits of any particular requirement and focus instead on how to achieve compliance! This course will cover ALL aspects of a hospital safety program, not just the Hazard Communication Standard. Participants will be provided with many downloadable resources, including the actual text versions of applicable standards.

Backyard Poultry Medicine
June 6 - July 9, 2014

This course is intended to help veterinarians and their technicians become more familiar with diagnosing and treating conditions of poultry commonly encountered in the backyard setting.

Get detailed help on How to Enroll in a VIN CE Course.

To get the most from your CE course, plan to attend a practice session before your course begins. Practice sessions are scheduled for the same days and times each week for your convenience:

• Tues. afternoons 1:00 - 2:00 p.m. ET
• Weds. evenings 10:00 - 11:00 p.m. ET
• Thurs. evenings 7:00 - 8:00 p.m. ET

For more information on CE opportunities for veterinary technicians, receptionists, or practice managers, visit the VSPN Course Catalog. VSPN offers courses tailored to veterinary support personnel, and certain VIN courses also are open to VSPN members.

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