Top 2024 dvm360 podcasts: #3

The Vet Blast Podcast hosted by Adam Christman, DVM, MBA, chief veterinary officer of dvm360, and edited by dvm360’sCaitlin McCafferty, featured a wide variety of veterinary topics and guests throughout the past year. As 2024 comes to a close, dvm360 is looking back and celebrating the Top 5 podcasts, as measured by audience interest and engagement. Through, New Year’s Eve, dvm360 is counting down the Top 5 podcasts by sharing 1 of these episodes per day.

The following podcast is #3 on the list and features guest Alex Sigmund, dVM, DACVO, founder of Insight Veterinary Eye Care in Atlanta, Georgia. They discuss all things glaucoma such as tips and tricks on diagnosing the diseases, effective management, and which breeds of dogs have a predisposition to glaucoma.

The following is a partial transcript.

Adam Christman, DVM, MBA: What are some of the recommendations that we're doing when we're trying to rule out glaucoma? So, I know you mentioned the pen. Do you have a recommendation of even like tetracaine? Is there a particular numbing solution you like? Walk us through some of the diagnostics that we should do.

Alex Sigmund, DVM, DACVO: Any red eye, in my opinion, should not only have a tonometry check, but also should have a stain, like a fluorescein stain, looking for ulcers as well as a Schirmer tear test because there are so many cases that get referred to me that could have been caught months earlier if one of those had been done, it just hadn't been done.

The biggest pushback I get from that type of stuff is, you know, owners don't want to pay for all of that, and so my biggest advice for veterinarians is just to make an ophthalmology fee, like an ophthalmology exam fee, that encompasses all those diagnostics [so] that you can just go ahead and do them.

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