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• 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, has also 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.

How to use the VIN Message Boards: Video Tutorials
New to VIN or just need a refresher course on how to browse, search, or post to the Message Boards?

Click the movie camera icons or the Text and Video links near the upper right side of the Message Boards main page for video help with:

• Posting new messages
• Finding older posts
• Cross posting to more than one folder
• And much more...

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

• Another review of AVMA COE nears
  Public | VIN | Discussion
• I’m not my pet's parent
  Public | VIN | Discussion
• Pet insurer renounces controversial rate factor
  Public | VIN | Discussion
• Electronic stethoscopes aid veterinarians with hearing loss
  Public | VIN | Discussion
• Drug options for low thyroid in dogs to shrink sharply
  Public | VIN | Discussion

Evolving stories:
- Whither Zeuterin?
- Personal contact information made public
- Is there an association between veterinary practice and De Quervain syndrome?

Be a VIN newshound:
VNS is your news service. Have an idea for a story? Have a story that needs covering?
E-mail Reporters@vin.com.

Share news.vin.com with non-VINners. The VIN News Service stories (without access to the community discussions) are publicly available.

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New and Revised Articles to Share With Your Clients!

Veterinary Partner

• Feline Pancreatitis (revised)

Texas Farm Radio

• The Thoroughbred Horse’s Foot

VetzInsight

• When Touch Hurts: Feline Hyperesthesia Syndrome

Pancytopenia in two horses following administration of potentiated sulfonamide antimicrobials
This report describes the occurrence of pancytopenia in 2 horses, one subsequent to an immune mediated reaction and the other bone marrow aplasia following the administration of trimethoprim and sulfadimidine.

Outcomes for dogs with primary hyperparathyroidism following treatment with percutaneous ultrasound-guided ethanol ablation of presumed functional parathyroid nodules: 27 cases (2008-2011)
Hypercalcemia resolved after 23 of 27 (85%) procedures. In those 23 treatments, 22 (96%) had resolution of hypercalcemia within 72 hours after treatment. Hypocalcemia was detected in 6 different dogs at 2 (1 dog), 7 (3 dogs), 14 (1 dog), and 21 (1 dog) days after treatment; 5 of these dogs had mild transient hypocalcemia and 1 developed clinical signs requiring calcium supplementation.

Implant-associated neoplasia in dogs: 16 cases (1983-2013)
Implant-associated tumors most commonly affected the diaphysis (15/16), with osteosarcomas significantly more likely to involve the long bone diaphysis in case dogs than in control dogs with naturally occurring osteosarcomas.

Use Of Checklists In Veterinary Practice
Checklists are not meant to dictate or prohibit certain actions. They are cognitive aids that 1) make sure the (often obvious/routine) things that can be easy to skip, forget, or mix up are performed appropriately, and 2) foster a sense of collaboration & discussion, flattening hierarchies and empowering team members.

New Zoetis Recombinant Lyme Vaccination
Whenever a new vaccine is launched, we always get lots of questions here about whether it is better than the current vaccines. We can never answer that until or unless some company runs a comparative study.

Palliative Options For A Dog With Suspected Renal Hemangiosarcoma
How often do you see doxorubicin-induced adverse effects? How would you rate the impact of these effects on patient's Quality Of Life?

Use And Dosing Of Melatonin For Behavioral And Hormonal Problems In Psittacines
Like any other behavior drug or supplement, it definitely does not work in all cases. But I've had some remarkable results.

Use the Rounds link in the main navigation bar to join these discussions.

VIN/VSPN Rounds
Sunday, April 3 - 9 p.m. ET
(Monday, April 4 - 1 a.m. GMT)
Join Rachael Carpenter, DVM, for Anesthesia Monitoring: Are All of the Beeps, Bells, and Whistles Important?
Invite your entire team to attend! Your support staff can access the session on VSPN.
*This session will feature audio. Take the readiness test before attending.

Venting Over a Venti
Tuesday, April 5 - 9:30 p.m. ET
(Wednesday, April 6 - 1:30 a.m. GMT)
Need to vent about solo vet issues?
Christina McRae, DVM, and other colleagues are here to lend an ear.

How to Use VIN, Part 1
Wednesday, April 6 - 9:30 p.m. ET
(Thursday, April 7 - 1:30 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 Journal Club
Thursday, April 7 - 1 p.m. ET
(Thursday, April 7 - 5 p.m. GMT)
Join Anne Elizabeth Katherman, DVM, MS, DACVIM, for Steroids and PEG for IVDD: Reopening a Can of Worms.
This neurology article will be reviewed:
Olby NJ, Muguet-Chanoit AC, Lim JH, Davidian M, et al. A Placebo-Controlled, Prospective, Randomized Clinical Trial of Polyethylene Glycol and Methylprednisolone Sodium Succinate in Dogs with Intervertebral Disk Herniation. J Vet Intern Med. January 2016;30(1):206-14.
All VIN members are welcome to attend this monthly series.
Instructions for obtaining a FULL TEXT version of this article can be found on the VIN Journal Club page.

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• Student Loan Repayment & New REPAYE Program @ (R)

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Applying The Pareto Principle: What Are The Most Important Skills New Graduates Need To Learn?
Specifically, what can we teach to new and recent graduates that has them performing at a high level as quickly as possible?

Book Review of the Week
First Steps with Puppies and Kittens; A Practice-Team Approach to Behavior
Catch up on previous Book Reviews!

Website of the Week
Optical Illusions

New Quick Poll:
(Look for it on the lower left side of the VIN Front Page.)
What are your feelings about SeaWorld's decision to stop captive breeding of Orcas?

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 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.

Oncology and Tumor Pathology II
April 5 - May 27, 2016

This course will familiarize participants with the current state of tumor diagnosis and prognosis as well as therapeutic interventions. This course will cover canine/feline histiocytic diseases, canine/feline soft tissue sarcomas, canine/feline osteosarcoma, canine melanomas, and canine/feline mammary tumors.

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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