Before becoming searchable in the Search Database, the tireless VIN indexing team scours each posting to ensure the search results you get make sense and to help you zero in on the content you want.

When appropriate, the team creates a Descriptive Title that more clearly illustrates the key point of the post. Both the poster's Original Title and the Descriptive Title are shown in the discussion details. Words found in either title are treated as highly relevant search terms when using the VIN Search to retrieve the post.

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Emergency and Critical Care Veterinary Wage Survey 2012
In conjunction with the Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care Society (VECCS), VIN conducted this survey between early February 2012 and the end of March 2012.

Results garnered from the 423 usable responses are now available to view on VIN.

If you participated in any other surveys and haven't yet seen those results, stop by the VIN Survey Results Archives.

Convert Proceedings Documents to PDF for Offline Viewing!
Mobile devices make it easy to stay connected to your home or business no matter where you are, but some situations force you to cut that tie to the world wide web. Never fear! Now you can convert conference proceedings articles to PDFs that you can view on your mobile device even when you don't have an internet connection.

The VIN Wizards have tested this feature on iPad, iPhone, Android, and Kindle Fire. If you aren't able to use this feature on your mobile device, please don't hesitate to let us know!

Note: To view PDFs on your mobile device, you'll need a PDF viewer. iBooks (for iPhone/iPad) and Adobe Reader (for iPhone/iPad, Android, or Kindle Fire) are free. There are also some great and inexpensive apps that let you do more manipulation/highlighting/note-taking.

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

• Can MDs and DVMs bridge the cultural divide?
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• Veterinarians brainstorm to change AVMA governance
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• Helping Pets Fund closes
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• FTC eyes distribution of pet medications
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• Dog breed genetic tests put to the test
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• Hospital chain headhunts for talent among veterinary practice staff
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• Accreditation body questions pharmacies on veterinary drug suppliers
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• Colorado wildfire livestock refugees treated for free
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Evolving stories
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* VINners knit to support colleagues
* Sneakers Software, owner of DVMAX, files bankruptcy

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New and Revised Articles to Share With
Your Clients!

• Post-Operative Care for Pets
• Fun Facts

Texas Farm Radio

• Autologous Conditioned Serum or IRAP for Equine Arthritis

ANIMALicious

• The Veterinarian-Client Bond

Sustainable equine parasite control: perspectives and research needs
Clinically important equine parasites are ubiquitous in managed horse populations. The traditional approach to parasite control is frequent administration of anthelmintics to all horses on a farm. However, increasing levels of anthelmintic resistance is forcing horse owners and veterinarians to shift this control paradigm. Treatment regimens involving routine deworming of all horses throughout the year are now being replaced by more sustainable approaches, which take in to account the importance of maintaining adequate parasite refugia.

Detection of bacterial DNA in bile of cats with lymphocytic cholangitis
In this study, we have successfully used molecular methods based on the amplification of the 16S ribosomal RNA gene on feline bile samples to show that bile of cats with LC is not sterile.

Transdiaphragmatic extension of a retroperitoneal lipoma into the intrathoracic extrapleural space via the lumbocostal trigone in a dog
The defect of the lumbocostal trigone is also called the foramen of Bochdalek in humans, and it is recognized as a common location for congenital diaphragmatic hernia. A lumbocostal trigone hernia may be considered as a differential diagnosis for bicavitary masses in dogs, particularly in the absence of a history of trauma.

Clients have steadily-growing boarding bill: what options do we have?
When they come in to visit, tell them that their dog hasn't been outside to walk yet ...

Successful anesthetic procedure in a geriatric cat with severe bradyarrhythmia including complete atrioventricular block; isoproterenol vs. Dobutamine or dopamine for severe bradycardia during anesthesia
I understand your concern. I was thinking in my head "isn't propofol pro-arrhythmic?" as I was giving it, but without midazolam or valium, I feel like my induction options are more limited these days.

Cat with severe infection and tissue necrosis after being bitten on the ventral abdomen
Thanks again for your help. We will probably just continue bandaging, rather than attempt a surgical plastic repair. Because the granulation bed looks so healthy and the patient is healing so well, we hesitate to interfere with the natural process of healing which I personally find absolutely amazing.

Bat castration advice needed
I find myself stymied. I was prepared to castrate a couple of brown bats for a wildlife rehabilitation client, but once there, could not figure out how to do it without causing hemorrhage.

How to Use VIN: Part 3
Wednesday, July 25, 9:30 p.m. EDT
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Download VINCasts
Too busy to read past Rounds sessions? Download VINCasts to your MP3 player and listen on the go. Rounds available as VINCasts are marked with an @.

If you've reserved time for some quiet reading, click the Rounds button on the VIN Main Navigation bar and read the transcripts of the last few Rounds. You can also browse the complete list of the last 300 Rounds transcripts or you can click on Rounds and Discussions in the VIN Library.

Rounds are also searchable via the search button. Just remember to choose Rounds (under the Clinical Resources tab) as the "Source" in your search parameters.

The VIN Student Center can help you find and prepare for your first (or your 50th) job.

Take advantage of resources like Vetquest Classifieds (search for job postings or place an ad of your own!) and the AVMA Veterinary Career Center (new job postings every day!) and articles on finding Intern/Resident positions.

Thanks to the continuous efforts of the VIN community, the Student Center has grown into a resource to serve all VINners.

E-mail to Feedback@vin.com if you'd like to contribute to the Student Center or just share your thoughts about the new features.

The VINDEX contains links to the most used and useful (or hard to find) VIN features.

The VINDEX is located on the upper right side of the Front Page, just below the navigation bar and is a handy tool to help you find many of the most popular VIN features. But if you really want to see the magic, from any page on VIN hold down your Ctrl button and push the “E” on your keyboard (Ctrl+E).

So the next time you are looking for the VIN Bookstore or the calculator you used a few weeks ago, use the VINDEX.

Need Help?
If you ever feel lost trying to find your way around on VIN or overwhelmed by all there is to see and do, help is a click, email or phone call away!

Click Help on the VIN Main Navigation bar on almost every page to begin exploring the new and improved VIN Help Center.

Meet the membership services team, find links to How-to videos, learn about Top Issues and Solutions, see What’s New on VIN, and much more.

Book Review of the Week
Equine Theriogenology – Blackwell’s 5-Minute Veterinary Consult
Buy this book in the Bookstore.
Catch up on previous Book Reviews!

Website of the Week
Heat Stress Information

eVetSites Tip of the Week
Editing your eVetsite's Google map listing with Google Places

What's your Diagnosis?
Archives of the Challenging and Fun Cases
Ophthalmology Case 148 - Opened 7/5
Pathology Case 99 - Opened 7/9
Zoonosis Case 122 - Opened 7/16

Show-Me-How Video
Set Up A Shortcut To Your Favorite Folders

Associate - Updated and New
Viral Papillomatosis (feline)
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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: AVMA, AAV, ECVIM, IVECCS and SWVS.

Traveling Dog
Dear Kanga: What in holy granola where you thinking eating my husband's passport 4 days before he left for South Africa? Good thing for you that the passport passed. I would like to remind you that I had to bribe him with a big fancy rifle scope just to bring you home, which means two things:
1) Do not make yourself more expensive, jackhole. I can't afford it.
2) You're pissing off a man who can probably drop you at 800 yards. Just sayin.

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

Backyard Poultry Medicine
October 1 - November 1, 2012

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

Pathologic Basis of Disease
October 18 - December 30, 2012

Module 1 of 6 in the Organ System Pathophysiology and ABVP Core Examination Review Series, this course is designed to cover the pathophysiological basis of disease in small animals based on pathophysiological and discipline-specific concepts.

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