Invite your staff and join us this Sunday at 10 p.m EDT. Use the Rounds link in the Main Navigation bar to join the discussions. VSPN members attend via www.vspn.org.

*If you're a student or practicing veterinarian who is curious about the AAFP organization, don't miss AAFP Student Rounds with Michelle Meyer, DVM at 8 p.m. Sunday.

To find out what other interesting rounds topics are coming soon, see This Week's Rounds Schedule.

Linking the Veterinary Healthcare Team
October 11-17 is National Veterinary Technician Week. Technicians have a vital role in the veterinary healthcare team. Have you told your technicians how much you appreciate them? Maybe today should be the day!

As the national association representing veterinary technicians, NAVTA realizes that a true celebration of National Veterinary Technician Week relies on participation of state associations, student chapters, and our members.

The Veterinary Support Personnel Network (VSPN) is a FREE online community for veterinary hospital staff. VIN provides VSPN for your staff as a benefit to you and your colleagues. VSPN offers your staff access to information and a community of their peers. If they're not already members, encourage your staff to sign up for their free VSPN membership at www.VSPN.org.

Password Vault

The new MyVIN on Beta.vin.com includes Password Vault -- the antidote for Password Hell!

Front Page > MyVIN > Stuff > Password Vault

No more remembering what site to visit and what username and password to use. Enter them once and your Password Vault remembers this information for many of your journal subscriptions and organization memberships.

Your Password Vault will help you jump right from VIN journal abstracts to the FULL TEXT of articles by logging you in to those sites automatically!

Let us know what you think.

More great new features are making their debut on Beta.vin.com! If you want the latest and greatest and want to be on the "bleeding" edge of where VIN is going, make Beta.vin.com your VIN Homepage.

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

• Concern mounts regarding NSAID reactions in cats
  VNS Report | Discussion
• BI reportedly stops U.S. sales of Mexitil, sparking concern from veterinarians
  VNS Report | Discussion
• Dog stuck in crate highlights rare risk of spot-on flea treatment
  VNS Report | Discussion
• Sidewiki hijacks sites, puts reputations at risk, critics say
  VNS Report | Discussion
• Veterinarian uses stem cells to treat spinal cord disease
  VNS Report | Discussion

Evolving stories:

• VIN Members react to news that Wyeth paid for promotional 'news' articles
• Recall issued for thiamine-deficient batches of Premium Edge cat foods

Be a VIN Newshound:
VNS is here to give YOU a voice and report news that is important to YOU. Got an idea for a story? Have a story that needs covering? Post it on the boards or email News@vin.com.

VIN News Service Needs Your Feedback

Share News with nonVINners -- The VIN News Service (without access to the community discussions) is now publicly available at news.vin.com. Check it out and share it.

Now you can follow VNS on Twitter! Simply click the "Send request" button to prompt the (VNS) crew to accept you as a follower.

New and Revised
(Share these with your clients!)

• Time to Adopt?
• Intestinal Lymphangiectasia: An Important Cause of Intestinal Protein Loss revised

Texas Farm Radio

• Quest (Moxidectin) as a Dewormer in Horses

Osteoblastic bone formation is induced by using nanogel-crosslinking hydrogel as novel scaffold for bone growth factor
Cholesterol-bearing pullulan nanogel-crosslinking hydrogel serves as an efficient and versatile scaffold for the stimulation of osteoblasts to form bone and to repair defects via delivery of BMP.

The horse-human dyad: Can we align horse training and handling activities with the equid social ethogram?
This article examines the recently completed equid ethogram and shows how analogues of social interactions between horses may occur in various human-horse interactions.

Effects of the introduction of single heifers or pairs of heifers into dairy-cow herds on the temporal and spatial associations of heifers and cows
High synchronicity and small distances of the single heifers with cows coincided with more frequent agonistic interactions, whereas heifers in the pairs were more synchronous and at shorter distances with each other and may have provided some mutual social support.

Lease renegotiation
In my shopping center, a neighbor wanted to renegotiate and was refused. Another said they were going to go bankrupt, and they got a 10% reduction. A third said that they would go bankrupt and were trying to negotiate a lower rate at the end of their lease. The shopping center said take it or leave it...

Extract or not?
In the past, when I see teeth with a lot of gum/bone loss such that we can see a lot of the root/furcation, I typically think to extract those teeth...but perhaps I am extracting too soon.

Can a husband euthanize his wife's dog without her permission?
Oh my! I just got goosebumps. How scary if you had put the dog to sleep. I don't mean scary legally, because most people don't pursue that route, but just the poor owner's heartbreak. Good job.

Stifle surgery in dogs: Use of intra-articular analgesia
Quite often you'll be able to reduce the post-op CRI in patients with successful intra-articular anesthesia/analgesia. This is a benefit when faced with a breed/individual in which you wish to minimize the systemic effect of opioids.

VIN/VSPN Rounds

Sunday, October 18, 10 p.m. EDT
(Monday, October 19, 2 a.m. GMT/UTC)
Join Katherine Dobbs, RVT, CVPM, PHR for Triangle Of Care: A Cooperative Approach To Patient Referrals.
*Note: This session is open to veterinarians, students and staff.

Virtual Coffeehouse
Tuesday, October 20, 9:30 p.m. EDT
(Wednesday, October 21, 1:30 a.m. GMT/UTC)
Stop by and chat with your fellow VIN addicts!

How To Use VIN: Part 3
Wednesday, October 21, 9:30 p.m. EDT
Thursday, October 22, 1:30 a.m. GMT/UTC)
Learn how to use VIN's Knowledgebase.
Email Nate@VIN.com for more information about this free, three-session course.

This Week's Rounds Schedule
Use the Rounds link to join these discussions.
@ = VINCast available for this session

• Low Stress Handling
• Fearful/Fear-Aggressive Dogs in Practice @
• Feline Hyperthyroidism @
• AV Block @
• Vet Tech Specialties @
• VIN Secrets @
• Canine Lymphoma @
• NAVDF 2009 Updates @
• VIN/VSPN Rounds: Hypotension @
• Urinary Catheters @
• Quality Control: Hematology @
• Sedation vs. Anesthesia @
• Managing vs. Cutting Costs @
• Property or Person? @

Want to See What You've Been Missing?
Click the Rounds button on VIN's main navigation bar and read the transcripts of the last few Rounds, click the complete list of Rounds to get to the list of the last 300 Rounds transcripts or click on Rounds and Discussions in the VIN Library.

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

For All You Multi-Taskers:
Download VINCasts to your MP3 player and listen to previous Rounds sessions while you run errands, exercise or steal a few minutes of me-time.

Veterinary Journals Online
When you SEARCH VIN, you scan nearly 2 million content items. Within this mass of information are citations and abstracts relevant to veterinary practice from thousands of clinical and biomedical journals.

In the VIN Library, you'll find a complete (well, likely a few have been missed) collection of citations and abstracts (and sometimes more) from over 150 core veterinary journals.

Group Membership Discounts
Colleagues, working in the same practice, qualify for group membership rates. If more than one member of your practice is using a single VIN login, you and your colleagues should each have your own login and be billed as a group membership.
Questions? Contact membership services at vingram@vin.com, see this helpful FAQ or call membership services at 1-800-700-4636 (toll free) or 1-530-756-4881 (local).

Need Help?
Have questions about your membership? Can't find that reference you need for a tough case? Help is a click, email or phone call away! (Hint: you can find this page anytime by clicking HELP on the main VIN Navigation Bar.)

Book Review of the Week
Hair Loss Disorders in Domestic Animals
Purchase it in the VIN Bookstore!

Website of the Week
Visual Guide To Porcine Reproduction and more...

eVetsites Tip of the Week
Website Graders

What's Your Diagnosis?
Archives of the Challenging and Fun Cases
Zoonosis Case 40
Ophtho Fun Case 94

Associate - Updated and New:
Cryptococcus (canine)
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 what conferences are coming up and to visit their Web sites! Links to information about upcoming conferences include: VCS, ACVR, AAZV, VDF and AAFP.

Halloween
"Biscuit would fart in the alligator's mouth and either kill him instantly or launch him into the stratosphere. Of course he did just fall off the couch in a sound sleep."

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

Assessment and Management of Proteinuria in Dogs and Cats: A look at the ACVIM Consensus Statement
November 11 - November 18, 2009

In this two hour session, three of the panelists will engage you in discussion of its salient points, in addition to any new findings since creation of the Consensus Statement.

Shelter Medicine
November 23 - December 21, 2009

This course is designed as an introduction to the field of shelter medicine - for those considering spending time in a shelter, those newly engaged in the profession, or those with an interest in finding out what shelter veterinary medicine is all about!

The course is primarily aimed at a veterinarian with minimal shelter experience but all veterinarians interested are encouraged to enroll. This course includes four, 2-hour real-time sessions and interactive message boards with the instructors.

If you're looking for more information on CE opportunities for veterinary technicians, receptionists or practice managers, please visit the VSPN CE page. VSPN offers courses specifically tailored to veterinary support personnel, and certain VIN courses also are open to VPSN members.

Now you can follow VIN CE and VSPN on Twitter! Simply click the "Send request" button to prompt the (VIN/VSPN) crews to accept you as a follower.