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Lighten Up: Make your staff meetings more productivePhoenix, Ariz. - Veterinary medicine is stressful. The workday is filled with responsibilities, decision-making and time constraints. Staff meetings can be extremely stressful, especially when they turn into gripe sessions. Humor will help alleviate stress, and the result is a more productive meeting.
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Toxicology Brief: Phenylpropanolamine toxicosis in dogs and catsThis drug is used primarily to treat urinary incontinence secondary to urethral sphincter hypotonia.
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Recent pet food contaminations: what to expect in the future (Proceedings)It is not uncommon for veterinarians working with companion animals to run into suspected intoxications, especially when multiple animals from the same household are affected.
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Obesity: Health and mobility risks (Sponsored by Iams)About 50% of dogs in the United States between the ages of 5 and 10 years are overweight or obese.
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Practical Matters: Artificial tears are vital in treating dry eyeKeratoconjunctivitis sicca (KCS), or dry eye, is a painful condition in which tear production is decreased or absent and the cornea becomes dry and irritated. If the condition is left untreated, loss of vision can result.
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The unwanted horse (Sponsored by Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health)It's been difficult to hear persistent reports about unwanted or abandoned horses in recent months. But here's the good news: You can help save unwanted horses. And in some cases, finding ways to help the animals you love can even lead to increased client confidence and trust.
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Practical Matters: Desmopressin is safer than water deprivation to identify the cause of polyuria and polydipsia in dogsPolyuria and polydipsia have many causes in dogs.
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Acute analgesia balancing acts--polypharmacy vs. multimodal management (Proceedings)Multimodal analgesia, so called balanced analgesia, was introduced by Dahl et al in 1990 in order to minimize the adverse effects of opioids. These include respiratory depression, sedation, dysphoria,
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Top ten drug interactions in dogs and cats (Proceedings)In humans, the risk of adverse drug interactions multiplies as the number of administered drugs increases. Interactions can occur during IV drug administration, during oral absorption, at the target site, or during hepatic or renal elimination, and may lead to loss of efficacy or increased toxicity.
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Fear-Free lessons from the zooNo matter the patients size, making their life easier is better for all involved.
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Transfusion medicine (Proceedings)Transfusion products are commercially available through various commercial vendors, or practitioners can utilize staff or client owned pets as blood donors. Because of the continued increases in demand and repeated shortages, having an internal source is important.
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The equine corneal noninfectious ulcerative keratitis (Proceedings)Major refractive structure of the eye due to the large refractive index change at the air / cornea interface
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Why we need to teach dog owners to leave no poo behindScooping the poop is good for pets, people and the environmenthere's why.
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Logical diagnostic approach to canine orthopedics (Proceedings)Orthopedic diseases in dogs account for ~22% of all small animal diagnoses, based on the Veterinary Medical Data Base. The canine orthopedic diagnostic flow chart presented here (Figure) is a useful tool for diagnosing orthopaedic diseases in dogs by guiding the clinician to the most likely and logical group of diagnoses.
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Veterinary hospice care guidelines (Proceedings)Many of the hospice and palliative care principles that have been successfully adopted in human hospice for decades are now being embraced to provide end of life care for terminal pets and their families by veterinary professionals. Steve Miles, M.D. said, "Death is not a medical event.
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CVC highlight: It's all in the eyes: A look at ocular signs of diseaseDr. Kaese reviews ocular signs that may indicate systemic disease in patients.
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Canine Cushing's Case Files: The ins and outs of detection and treatment-Case file: Boca (Sponsored by Dechra Veterinary Products)It can be intimidating in a complex case such as Boca's to try a new drug and treatment protocol for the first time.
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Becoming a veterinary leaderBreak lazy management habits by identifying how you've grown complacent-it's uncomfortable, but necessary.
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Approach to hypotensive patients (Proceedings)In order to understand and approach hypotensive patients, one must first understand blood pressure. Although not a true measure of perfusion, blood pressure is one of the most non-invasive means the veterinary field has of measuring whether or not the tissues are getting enough blood and ultimately enough oxygen.
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Multimodality approach to soft tissue sarcomas in dogs and cats (Proceedings)Soft tissue sarcomas comprise 7% and 15% of all skin and subcutaneous tumors in cats and dogs, respectively. The annual incidence of soft tissue sarcomas in companion animals is approximately 17 per 100,000 cats and 35 per 100,000 dogs.
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Alpha-2 agonists and analgesia (Proceedings)In the veterinary profession, ?-2 adrenergic receptor agonists (?-2 agonists) are either loved or feared; this is often determined by a veterinarian's familiarity with the drug. There is no doubt that ?-2 agonists have complex effects, but understanding ?-2 agonists increase options for analgesic use, as well as sedation.
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How owners can help monitor heart disease in their petsTell owners to be on the lookout for this early indicator of worsening disease.
