VPN Plus+ ExclusiveA detailed look at ultrasound and vision – Part 2May 25, 2023Evaluate the cost of missing the lesion with respect to your patient, your pet owner client, your time, your team’s time, your image and report footprint, your reputation, and most of all how the cost of missing a lesion ultimately affects your art of veterinary medicine that you and your team have so painstakingly dedicated yourselves to all these years. Then look at these steps and knock off this checklist when looking at machines.
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80-year-old tortoise 'oldest' veterinary patient to undergo surgeryApril 25, 2023Tortie, an 80-year-old California desert tortoise, is back to his old self after undergoing surgery to remove a fist-size bladder stone, which was discovered during a wellness examination.
VPN Plus+ ExclusiveWhen is a canine seizure a brain tumor?March 24, 2023The neurological exam can be broken into hands-off and hands-on sections. In a patient with seizures, and, therefore by default, a neurolocalization of the prosencephalon, evaluating the patient’s mentation, how they navigate the room, postural reactions, and cranial nerve testing will be the most informative parts of the exam.
VPN Plus+ ExclusiveSteps to a Comprehensive Oral Health Assessment and TreatmentMarch 23, 2023In this session, Mary L. Berg, BS, LATG, RVT, VTS (Dentistry), covers the necessary steps to perform a Complete Oral Health Assessment and Treatment COHAT, understand the need to clean the entire tooth, and all the treatments available to halt disease progression. It will also include tips to make the cleaning procedure more efficient.
VPN Plus+ ExclusiveIs it time for the U.S. to go Dutch?March 16, 2023By Patty Khuly, VMD, MBAAs veterinary professionals, we’re on the front lines of this debate. We know exactly how certain physical traits translate physiology to pathology. Of course, it is not just the brachycephalics. We see the influence of breed-related genetic disease multiple times every single day, often many times per patient. We see it so often that, like frogs in a pot, we have become mostly inured to it.
VPN Plus+ ExclusiveDental Nerve Blocks for Zen AnesthesiaMarch 15, 2023Stefanie Perry, CVT, explores the different site and drug choices to perform safe dental nerve blocks in dogs and cats by identifying risk factors, adverse effects, and contraindications.
VPN Plus+ ExclusiveA detailed look at ultrasound and vision – Part 1March 9, 2023The consistently best results for your practice depend on your ability to thoroughly investigate key issues surrounding the ultrasound machine, those who drive it, and those who indirectly utilize it. Rapid selection of an ultrasound machine, or one given to you in a lab deal without thorough investigation, more often than not leads to suboptimal utilization and frustration in your clinical sonography curve and implementation. It may even result in machine quiescence in practice.
VPN Plus+ ExclusiveRaising Resilience: How to Avoid Compassion Fatigue, Burnout, and Moral DistressFebruary 28, 2023In this session Sarah Wooten, DVM, CVJ, defines compassion fatigue, moral distress, and occupational burnout. She covers the relationship between these monsters and strategies that, if practiced, will consistently protect you and your organization from all three.
VPN Plus+ ExclusiveHonoring Your Mental Health as a Veterinary ProfessionalFebruary 23, 2023Maranda Elswick, DVM, covers how to safeguard your health and boundaries in the face of burnout and compassion fatigue, build resiliency and contentment, and care for yourself as well as you do your patients.
VPN Plus+ Exclusive'Radical transparency' in vet med: embracing a new era of closeness with clientsFebruary 15, 2023By Patty Khuly, VMD, MBAInstead of becoming correspondingly friendly, open, candid, and clear, we have erected barriers to these. Artfully constructed, tech-centric walls may well suit the science, but I would argue they ill-become most modern client-patient relationships.
