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Updates on Spay/Neuter Recommendations

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n this session: The World Small Animal Veterinary Association published Reproduction Control Guidelines in 2024. These guidelines included decision-making recommendations for reproduction control in dogs and cats that differ from the traditional recommendation to prepubertally spay/neuter. Michelle Anne Kutzler, BVS, DVM, PhD, MBA, focuses on the decision-making recommendations in light of the most current research related to some of the long-term adverse health effects of gonad removal.

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The Quiet Blind Eye

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In this session: Kathryn Diehl, MS, DVM, DACVO, focuses on differentials for acute but quiet blind eyes in dogs with concepts applicable to other species. Along the way, she will contrast some common “more active” / hot causes of ocular cloudiness and visual impairment.

Part 2: Using ultrasound in the ER setting

This article provides a thorough review of thoracic-focused assessment sonography for trauma, triage, and tracking (TFAST). Gaining proficiency with TFAST point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) evaluations will give you a clinical edge for patients that present in respiratory distress, those with coughs, sudden collapse, and more. 

Practice Management

Hell hath no fury like a vet with 'senioritis'

"To some extent, this version of volunteerism, what I’m alternatively calling “veterinary senioritis,” is possibly why so many veterinarians have turned to relief medicine. The power to say “no” is a tremendous antidote to what ails many in our profession."