Bandaging with Brian

On this week's episode of The Vet Blast Podcast presented by dvm360, our host Adam Christman, DVM, MBA, welcomes Brian Goleman, CVT, to discuss all things bandage art for veterinary medicine. Throughout the episode Goleman and Christman chat about what inspired Goleman to begin Brian's Bandages, a company educating veterinary professionals on proper bandaging techniques, how bandage art can be a great marketing strategy for veterinary clinics, and how he came to write a children's book on veterinary bandaging.

Below is a partial transcript

Adam Christman, DVM, MBA: So why bandaging? What was it to you that said, like, 'you know what, I really want to do something about this'?

Brian Goleman, CVT: So it started off as a challenge. I love challenging myself and the fact that I had to do something in hospital that's unnatural. I have to put a bandage on an animal that has no idea what's going on. I have to send it home with owners that at the time also have no idea what's going on really. So I have to challenge myself to educate them enough to feel comfortable going home. Because they have to change their routine of the day. They have to change how they feed, how they walk the dog, basically everything changes. So I have to make them comfortable enough. And then there's also the challenge of making sure that that bandage is coming back to me in the same status that I sent it out in. I want them to be compliant, I want the patient to be wearing an E collar, like all these things and so, and then come back without bandage sores.

So the challenge of all of that was [what] initially what drew me in. ...There was no high like getting a bandage coming back with no bandage sores. And then on top of that, just the relationships that I developed with these owners, like I'd be seeing them for weeks while their fractures heal, while their wounds heal, and so really, like being a part of their recovery like, really, I guess revved my engines, and I just fell in love with it immediately.