Help them help you! If you're at WWVC this week, stop by the VIN Cyber Café and talk to the Veterinary Support Personnel Network (VSPN) folks about all the great resources VSPN has to offer your staff.

VSPN is a FREE online community tailored for your veterinary hospital staff. Part of the VIN family, VSPN was created just for your staff and offers them access to continuing education, message boards, and a community of their own.

Treat Your Clients to Some Tricks for Avoiding the ER this Halloween
Let VIN help you handle the spooky side of the holiday festivities.

The Medical FAQ on Dangerous Foods will help you educate your staff and clients about potential problems associated with feeding pets chocolate and other candies.

Some other VIN resources that will come in handy:

• Halloween can be Spooky for Pets - Client Handout
• Chocolate Toxicity Calculator
• Chocolate Toxicity - Client Handout
• Chocolate Toxicity Spreadsheet
• Feline Predispostion to Chocolate Toxicity
• Dangerous Foods
• Calculating Chocolate Toxicity
• Xylitol Toxicity

When you've finished brushing up on potentially dangerous foods, take a moment to treat yourself to some Halloween fun shared by VINners (and post your own!).

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

• Veterinarians brace for Hurricane Mattthew
  Public | VIN | Discussion
• Drug maker's leptospirosis claims surprise veterinarians
  Public | VIN | Discussion
• Hemopet ‘1,000 percent going to stay in business’
  Public | VIN | Discussion

Evolving story:
- Veterinary clinic comes to Wal-Mart
- Cannabis for canines: availability, research, legal status

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

• Fludrocortisone Acetate (Florinef) revised

Texas Farm Radio

• Feeding a New Horse (revised)

VetzInsight

• Diseases We Shouldn't See

Policies for the vaccination of cats and dogs in New Zealand veterinary practices
Advice to enable clients to decide which non-core vaccines were administered was given by 181/199 (91%) respondents. Factors considered when recommending a vaccine included consideration of risk to individual patients (190/203; 93.6%), requirements of boarding kennels/catteries (165/203; 81.3%), and clinic vaccination policy (142/203; 70%). The preferred site for administering MLV vaccines to cats was the dorsal neck or inter-scapular region (137/198; 69.2%).

A database survey of equine tumours in the United Kingdom
There were 964 cases included. The most frequently diagnosed tumours were: sarcoid (24% cases), squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) (19%), lymphoma (14%), melanoma (6%), gonadal stromal tumour (6%), and mast cell tumour (MCT) (4%).

Pharmacokinetics of meloxicam in adult goats: a comparative study of subcutaneous, oral and intravenous administration
Subcutaneous administration of meloxicam resulted in long-term presence of drug at high concentration in goat plasma. This unique plasma disposition characteristic may offer an advantage in some clinical cases toward potentially improving the treatment efficacy in goats.

Intact Dog Has A Perianal Adenoma On The Tail: Should He Be Neutered?
Some neutered dogs may develop them, too. The dogs may have hyperadrenocorticism or an adrenal mass producing testosterone.

Technique Tips For Subconjunctival Enucleations
I do my enucleations using a different order of events. I remove the eyelid margins first; the third eyelid and gland second. This will dramatically improve the exposure. I rotate the eye...

How Do House Call Veterinarians Handle Printing Out Invoices And Other Paperwork For Clients?
We write up our records on phone/laptop or tablet. We email everything and don't use a printer at the appointment. We'll also print out and mail later, for those who don't have an email address.

Radiograph Interpretation Of Maxillary Premolar: Artifact Or Pathology? Source For Dental Nomenclature And Terminology
Here is a link to a wealth of college approved dental terminology with accompanying images. Any of the images can be right clicked and used without permission for educational purposes.

Wondering how long it is until the next Rounds session? Take a look at the Rounds Countdown Clock!

Venting Over a Venti
Tuesday, October 11 - 9:30 p.m. ET
(Wednesday, October 12 - 1:30 a.m. GMT)
Need to vent about student issues?
Christina McRae, DVM, and other colleagues are here to lend an ear.

How to Use VIN, Part 2
Wednesday, October 12 - 9:30 p.m. ET
(Thursday, October 13 - 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 Rounds
Sunday, October 16 - 9 p.m. ET
(Monday, October 17 - 1 a.m. GMT)
Join Lauren Demos, BVMS, HonsBSc, and Steven Bailey, DVM, DABVP, for Feline Lower Urinary Tract Disorders: Go with the Flow, or Express Yourself?
*This session will feature audio. Take the readiness test before attending.

Need help remembering when Rounds sessions are happening? Check out the list of ways to be reminded about VIN Rounds sessions.

Want to See What You've Been Missing?
(@ = VINCast available; R = Replay available)

• IVDD Dogs with No Deep Pain: Does Delay in Surgery Affect Prognosis? Journal Club (R)
• Rule of 20 Interim @ (R)
• Team Training: Reducing Errors & Improving Morale VIN/VECCS Interim (R)
• Social Media 101 @ (R)
• Busting Myths about Feline Hyperthyroidism VIN/AAFP (R)

Download VINCasts (@)
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Rounds are also searchable! Use the filters on the right of your Search Results page.

Book Reviews of the Week
- Canine and Feline Cytology, A Color Atlas and Interpretation Guide. Third Edition
- Medical Mathematics and Dosage Calculations for Veterinary Professionals
Catch up on previous Book Reviews!

Website of the Week
Nutrition For Backyard Chicken Flocks

Associate - New, Updated & Revised
Feline Asthma
Feline Plasma Cell Pododermatitis
Feline Pneumothorax
Feline Pulmonary Edema
Canine Pulmonary Edema
Canine Mucinosis
Explore the rest of Associate!

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 or any of the other VIN booths if you’re attending WWVC, ACVC, ACVR/VCS, or SEVC.

NOW OPEN FOR ENROLLMENT!
Visit the CE Main Page and check out the Course Catalog to see what other courses are starting soon.

Canine and Feline Obesity Management
October 17 - November 3, 2016
Presenter(s): Catherine Lenox, DVM, DACVN

This course will discuss health risks associated with obesity in dogs and cats, nutritional assessments for obese and overweight patients, including dietary history, body condition score, and muscle condition score, and a step-by-step approach to the overweight or obese patient.

Principles of Medicine
February 2 - March 19, 2017
Presenters: Katherine James, DVM, PhD, DACVIM; Linda Kidd, DVM, PhD, DACVIM;
Kathy Freeman, DVM, BS, MS, PhD, DipECVCP, FRCPath, MRCVS; Stefanie Klenner, Dr.med.vet., DECVCP; Peggy L. Schmidt, DVM, MS, DACVPM

The second of six modules 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. Clinical examples will be used to illustrate these concepts. Focus will be on clinical decision making and the diagnostic process including problem-oriented clinical reasoning, the assessment of laboratory data, and an introduction to evidenced-based medicine. This module together with the first module Pathological Basis of Disease are designed to prepare the participant for the organ system-based modules. The course can be used as a portion of the preparation for the ABVP Core examination, but it is not designed as a test-preparation course.

Visit the CE Participant Resource Center to learn the basics of online CE, how to find your course area, CE participation requirements, and much more!

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