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New and Revised Articles to Share With Your Clients!

Veterinary Partner

• Alprazolam (revised)

Texas Farm Radio

• Digestion in Foals

VetzInsight

• A Veterinarian's Medical Advice for Humans

Feedlot Euthanasia and Necropsy
Euthanasia techniques are described, including primary and secondary steps to ensure humane death. A necropsy data collection system is discussed that uses check-boxes to record findings. A link to a database that can be downloaded is included.

Medical Treatment of Primary Canine Glaucoma
This article discusses the most current ocular hypotensive agents, focusing on their basic pharmacology, efficacy at lowering IOP, and recommended use in the treatment of idiopathic canine glaucoma.

Resection of the incisive bone and rostral maxillae for removal of an ossifying fibroma in an 18-year-old Warmblood gelding
Even though excision of the tumour was not complete, no macroscopic local recurrence was reported post operatively at 36 months' follow-up.

Tips For Evaluating A Wheezing Cat
Another important question, when talking about respiratory noise or effort, is if it occurs most during inspiration or expiration.

Is Surgery Indicated To Drain The Bulla Of A Cat With Chronic Upper Respiratory Disease? Myringotomy Images
Since the middle ear will become de-pressurized, the fluid will flow either into the ear canal, or downwards, into the nasopharynx.

Mast Cell Tumor Staging For A Dog
It is never wrong to offer staging, but there are a few things that would make me strongly recommend it before surgery...

How Important Is Doing Urine Culture At The Time Of Cystotomy When Bladder Stone In Dogs Is Suspected To Be Calcium Oxalate?
Usually the culture is super important for stones that we suspect of being struvite where we didn't get a bug that explains the struvite to grow at the time of diagnosis of their stone.

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VIN/VSPN Rounds
Sunday, May 1 - 9 p.m. ET
(Monday, May 2 - 1 a.m. GMT)
Join Kathleen Cooney, DVM, and Shea Cox, RN, DVM, for A Multimodal Approach to Animal Hospice.
This 90-minute session will feature audio. Take the readiness test before attending.
Invite your entire team to attend! Your support staff can access the session on VSPN.

Venting Over a Venti
Tuesday, May 3 - 9:30 p.m. ET
(Wednesday, May 4 - 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, May 4 - 9:30 p.m. ET
(Thursday, May 5 - 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, May 5 - 1 p.m. ET
(Thursday, May 5 - 5 p.m. GMT)
Join Mark Rishniw, BVSc, PhD, DACVIM, for Do Heavy Breathers have Big Hearts? Another Look at Feline Congestive Heart Failure. This cardiology article will be reviewed:
Schober KE, Wetli E, Drost WT. Radiographic and echocardiographic assessment of left atrial size in 100 cats with acute left-sided congestive heart failure. Vet Radiol Ultrasound. 2014 Jul-Aug;55(4):359-67.
(While the full text of the article is not free, please read the abstract and Companion Notes.)
All VIN members are welcome to attend this monthly series.
This session will feature audio. Take the readiness test before attending.
Instructions for obtaining a FULL TEXT version of this article can be found on the VIN Journal Club page.

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Book Review of the Week
Coordinating surveillance policies in animal health and food safety 'from farm to fork'
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Upcoming Conferences
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NOW OPEN FOR ENROLLMENT!
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Introduction to Chemotherapy in Veterinary Medicine
May 2 - June 2, 2016

This course will provide an overview of chemotherapy in veterinary medicine. Specific topics covered will include the origin of chemotherapy use in both human and veterinary medicine, chemotherapy safety, chemotherapy side effects, and cancer patient management. Cancer-specific chemotherapy protocols will be summarized along with the associated outcome data from our veterinary literature.

To Curve or Not to Curve? When is the Question
June 29 - July 16, 2016

Performing and interpreting glucose curves provides the necessary information to determine best type of insulin as well as dose adjustments in a patient. However, performing curves isn't appropriate for every client. The goals of therapy are not the same for different patients and different clients. Adjunctive approaches to help clients care for their diabetic cat will be discussed.

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