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Every year, parts of the country are plagued by extreme heat. This year is no different. This infographic helps clients recognize the signs of heatstroke and gives tips on how to prevent it, detailing specifics that put certain pets at higher risk. Finally, it gives a look at what might happen at your practice once a pet is brought in.
A Peaceful Passing: Best Practices for In Home Pet Euthanasia
In this session: This presentation helps explain why families choose euthanasia over natural death. Faith Banks, DVM, CHPV, CCRT, looks at setting expectations and how to communicate the process to pet owners. The presentation covers pre-euthanasia sedation, euthanasia injection techniques, and aftercare, including memorialization options. Lastly, it discusses supporting pet owners through grief with resources and ongoing emotional support. This presentation helps the veterinarian and practice team perform in-home pet euthanasia compassionately and professionally.
A Peaceful Passing: Best Practices for In Home Pet Euthanasia
In this session: This presentation helps explain why families choose euthanasia over natural death. Faith Banks, DVM, CHPV, CCRT, looks at setting expectations and how to communicate the process to pet owners. The presentation covers pre-euthanasia sedation, euthanasia injection techniques, and aftercare, including memorialization options. Lastly, it discusses supporting pet owners through grief with resources and ongoing emotional support. This presentation helps the veterinarian and practice team perform in-home pet euthanasia compassionately and professionally.
Federal bill expands eligibility to include veterinary care expenses
The People and Animal Well-being (PAW) Act aims to support pet owners by making veterinary care more affordable under Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) and Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs).
Using integrative rehab for optimal outcomes in cranial cruciate ligament disease cases
How often have you heard the tibial plateau-leveling osteotomy (TPLO) called the ‘gold standard’ for cranial cruciate ligament disease (CrCLD)? Have you wondered how it earned that title? ‘Gold standard’ treatments face criticism in human medicine, and veterinarians should do the same.
Using integrative rehab for optimal outcomes in cranial cruciate ligament disease cases
How often have you heard the tibial plateau-leveling osteotomy (TPLO) called the ‘gold standard’ for cranial cruciate ligament disease (CrCLD)? Have you wondered how it earned that title? ‘Gold standard’ treatments face criticism in human medicine, and veterinarians should do the same.
Orthodontics in dogs and cats? You bet!
Moving mandibular canine teeth to a more acceptable position usually involves creation of a passive orthodontic device, such as an inclined plane or composite extensions. These options work well for mild and severe cases of mandibular distoclusion.
New scholarship program supports future shelter veterinarians
Each year, five veterinary students will receive $5,000 grants, amounting to ten students receiving scholarships over the two-year program.
Managing mentorship: Win some, lose some
At a time in veterinary medicine when it is hard to hire a warm body, much less a devoted doctor willing to join forces and stay on permanently, it is worth asking what it takes to be a more successful mentor.
Khuly sold to a corporation!
I’m still getting used to this strange bedfellow of ours. What’s more, I’m not quite sure what to make of the fact I can’t manage to despise it yet. Never in a million years would I have predicted the relative equanimity I’ve experienced throughout this process. After all, as anyone who has caught any part of my decades-long writing career can attest, I’ve carefully nurtured a poisonous aversion to corporate takeovers in veterinary medicine.
Essential Hospice and Palliative Care Strategies for Veterinary Professionals
In this session: This presentation will help provide veterinary professionals with the essential tools and insights needed for navigating the delicate landscape of end-of-life scenarios. Tyler Carmack, DVM, CVA, CVFT, CHPV, examines the nuances of the hospice and palliative care philosophy, offering the expansion of this component of care. It reviews communication techniques that go beyond the clinical, fostering empathy and forging lasting bonds with families facing difficult decisions.
Collecting deposits and improving appointment scheduling
This financial commitment serves as an incentive for pet owners to either attend or cancel within an appropriate timeframe, allowing you to offer the slot to another pet.
New vaccine to protect cattle from deadly tick-borne disease developed by Mizzou researchers
The research team created the vaccine by genetically modifying the Anaplasma marginale pathogen, successfully immunizing cattle from bovine anaplasmosis..
Dogs’ word comprehension investigated in new study
Researchers from the University of California (UC) San Diego and other institutions looked into how canine pets respond to food-, play-, and outside-related words on soundboards
Dogs’ word comprehension investigated in new study
Researchers from the University of California (UC) San Diego and other institutions looked into how canine pets respond to food-, play-, and outside-related words on soundboards
5 Questions With…Hunter Finn, DVM, veterinarian-influencer
Dr. Finn shares about the cases he sees in his practice, how he integrates the first USDA-conditionally approved Canine Parvovirus Monoclonal Antibody (CPMA) treatment to handle parvo cases, and his social media work.
Debunking common diet myths and misinformation
Equip your team with guidelines and resources to help address misinformation in pet care, including diet trends.
Helping manage the hidden signs of stress
Our therapeutic nutrition targets underlying stress in cats with GI or urinary
issues — helping provide relief to pets and their humans.
The clear reco for hidden stress
Our therapeutic nutrition targets underlying stress in cats with GI or urinary
issues — helping provide relief to pets and their humans.
Reviewing the basics of an ABC analysis
ABC analysis is a method of classifying inventory items that can ultimately be beneficial for the practice by helping reduce costs, improve customer service, and increase profitability by keeping the inventory clean.