Improving surgical tool prepApril 22, 2025Learn how to ensure veterinary surgical instruments are properly cleaned and sterilized to preventing surgical site infections (SSIs) and maintain the highest standards of care.
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Mass spay/neuter approach of a nonprofit to battle dog overpopulation in Puerto RicoJuly 15, 2024A rescue organization dedicated to the abused, abandoned, and stray dogs (or satos) of Puerto Rico has pivoted its efforts—preventing the birth of unwanted litters, rather than trying to rescuing one dog at a time through adoption.
Importance of personalized decision-making in sterilization highlighted in study updateJune 14, 2024Researchers at the University of California (UC) Davis have added new information to their guidelines—a line of research that started in 2013—on neutering dog varieties based on breed and sex
Ensure correct usage of sterilized devices, FDA saysMay 13, 2020Clinics are being alerted of the possible misinterpretation of hydrogen peroxide indicator colors for vapor sterilization.
An inconvenient truthFebruary 16, 2018If you’re like me, you were raised to think that all dogs should be sterilized. Veterinary school and our lives in practice further reinforced that truism. Dogs, we were reverently informed, require sterilization if they’re to live long, healthy lives.
Surgical sterilization, neutering options for male cats, dogsNovember 21, 2017Strong support exists for the view that gonadectomy has a net health benefit for female dogs and cats, but it is less clear that neutering benefits individual males. The risks of some diseases occurring are reduced or eliminated by neutering (for example, testicular neoplasia, benign prostatic hypertrophy), but other disease appear to be more common in neutered males, though risk varies by breed and age at neutering (e.g., cranial cruciate ligament disease, feline interstitial cystitis).
Pros, cons of surgical sterilization, neutering options for femalesSeptember 14, 2017Among the most common surgical procedures in small animal practice are those for sterilization and neutering. The goal of these procedures is both to prevent reproduction and to provide a net health benefit for the patient that may include avoiding the risks of reproduction, reducing the incidence of those disease that are more common in intact animals, and reducing behaviors associated with intact status that can lead to relinquishment.
Study: Income is major factor when owners avoid sterilizing catsDecember 15, 2016A study published in the September issue of the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association found regular veterinary visits by low-income cat-owning households to be a luxury most say they cannot afford.
