Polly Want a Diagnosis? Know your Avian Zoonoses
Are you, your staff, or your clients at risk? What should you know about infectious disease in birds? Join Ned Gentz, DVM, DACZM this Sunday night and get an understanding of what's worth worrying about and what's hype. This will be an ALL TEXT rounds, NO AUDIO. Use the Rounds link in the main navigation bar to join the discussions. If you can't attend, be sure to check the Rounds or Front Page of VIN, or next Tuesday's VIN This Week, for links to the transcript of the discussion.
Here Comes Peter Cottontail...
...only he's not a fuzzy rabbit, he's a trembling Schnauzer and he hasn't come to hide eggs in your waiting room. He's just eaten a bag of tasty chocolate treats he found and now he's come to show you how they look regurgitated on your waiting room floor. Don't panic! Enter the dog's weight, the type of chocolate and the amount consumed into the handy Chocolate Toxicity Calculator and it will help you plan your treatment strategy. If you like the Chocolate Toxicity Calculator, you'll love the VIN suite of calculators. The MyCalculations suite allows you to save data for your patients, so that you can compare, print and share results from different visits. MyCalculations is available on Beta.vin.com and WWW.vin.com in the VIN Library and the VINDEX (Calc./Conversions). ---------------------------------------
The Association of Avian Veterinarians (AAV) is conducting a Strategic Planning Survey and would like to ask for just a few minutes of your time. Even if you see just one bird a year... even if you don't belong to AAV, your answers to these two quick questions will help them know where to start.
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Veterinary students' usage and perception of video teaching resources
Veterinary students' usage and perception of video teaching resources. The students had a positive perception of video usage in higher education. Video usage increases prior to practical examinations. Image quality was a greater concern with year-3 students than with either year-1 or 2 students but all groups highlighted the following as important issues: i) good sound quality, ii) accessibility, including location of videos within electronic libraries, and iii) video content. Based on the findings from this study, guidelines are suggested for those developing undergraduate veterinary videos.
Soft-tissue injuries associated with cast application for distal limb orthopaedic conditions. A retrospective study of sixty dogs and cats
Of the 60 animals that had a cast placed, 63% developed a soft-tissue injury (60% mild, 20% moderate, and 20% severe). Injuries could occur any time during coaptation, and an association with duration of casting and severity was not shown.
Idiopathic aseptic pericardial effusion with cardiac tamponade in a horse
Pericardiocentesis and drainage of the fluid were carried out in this case. At one year follow-up, there were no clinical signs of recurrence and the horse had returned to his previous level of athletic performance.
Urinary tract infections: timelines for urine culture monitoring in dogs
All the non-fluoroquinolones are reported as sensitive (even amoxi), but I recall Dawn Booth saying in a pharmacology lecture that if a bug becomes resistant to the fluoroquinolones, it is a given that it will have multi-drug resistance. How do I manage this dog now? What antibiotic? We have discussed very frequent emptying of the bladder and getting up during the night to take the dog out. She was on Crananidin and Proviable from February to about June 2010, but the client discontinued it since she got an infection anyway. She would be willing to restart it, though. Is the Nutramax product best? Are human products acceptable? An internist recommended a trial of phenylproponolamine for a subclinical hormone-responsive incontinence, but we haven't tried that yet.
Treatment for dog with severe hemorrhagic cystitis and skin lesion
Just this past month she developed severe hematuria with large black clots; a second ultrasound was performed that showed a large amount of echogenic sediment in the bladder and some retoperitoneal thickening with possible hemmorhage. A complete CBC/chem with coag profile was performed and was normal. Exploratory surgery was performed, the entire retroperitoneal area was completely hemmorhagic extending and including three quarters of both kidneys.The bladder appeared normal with the exception of two small cyst-like bubbles on its ventral surface.
Cat with muscle hypertrophy of the small intestine: radiographs, ultrasound images, and treatment options
The cat is 6 days post-op and still doing well with a good appetite, and small but normal bowel movements. The histopathology report came back: "Diffuse intestinal smooth muscle hypertrophy, idiopathic, but usually very significant. Normal lymph node. Hepatocellular atrophy and early cholangiolar proliferation that might reflect biliary obstruction secondary to duodenal muscular hypertrophy." It is important to note that the gall bladder expressed easily intra-operatively.
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 Sunday Rounds
Sunday April 10, 10 p.m. ET
(Monday, April 11, 2 a.m. GMT/UTC)
Join Ned Gentz, DVM, DACZM, for Avian Zoonoses. *This will be an ALL TEXT rounds, NO AUDIO.
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Small Animal Bandaging, Casting, and Splinting Techniques
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Pneumocystosis (canine)
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Symposium of the American Heartworm Society - 2010 Proceedings American Association of Feline Practitioners (AAFP) 2010 Spring Proceedings The University of California-Davis 7th Annual Veterinary Neurology Symposium 2011 (UCDavis Neurology 2011) Proceedings New Ophthalmology Slide Shows
Persistent corneal erosions - Dog
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Keep your pants on
Last Saturday [my tech] went up to the lobby to room a very happy lab. When she entered the lobby, the dog suddenly jumped on her, caught his nails in her elastic waistband and pulled her scrub pants all the way down to her ankles. The tech tried to retrieve her pants, but the dog just kept ripping them out of her hands. The whole time this was going on, the owners just stared in shock. Nobody even tried to pull the dog back. The part that gets me the most is that the tech was wearing a THONG.
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OSHA & Practice Safety
April 11 - July 21, 2011
This course consists of ten (10) 1.5 hour real-time sessions and is designed for the Practice Owner, Manager or Administrator who desires to understand OSHA's Standards as well as practical ways to implement them in a veterinary practice. We attempt to avoid debating the merits of any particular requirement and focus on how to achieve compliance! This course will cover ALL aspects of a hospital safety program, not just the Hazard Communication Standard. The participants will be provided with many downloadable resources, including the actual text versions of applicable standards. Systems B: Organ System Pathophysiology and ABVP Core Examination Review
April 28 - July 7, 2011 This course consists of eight (8) 2-hour real-time sessions and builds on the on foundations of pathophysiology and medicine in modules 1 and 2. The emphasis will be on pathophysiologic basis of diseases of the neurology, dentistry, behavior, musculoskeletal, gastroenterology body systems. If you're looking for more information on
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