Emergency pet prep for exotics
Determining species to be seen and gathering necessary supplies are initial steps to ready your team for caring for exotics
Determining species to be seen and gathering necessary supplies are initial steps to ready your team for caring for exotics
When it comes to animals during November, turkeys are likely to first come to mind. But this is also the month that highlights groomers, senior pets and animal shelters. Consider doing a cross promotion for referrals at a local grooming salon or recognizing veterinarians and staff who have served our country, along with your clients. Bonus: if you work with wildlife, consider Guy “Hawkes’ Day on the 5th as a riff on that holiday.
In this session by Tamara Grubb, DVM, PhD, Diplomate ACVAA: Local anesthetic drugs are very effective analgesics. They are also largely easy to use and inexpensive. The use of regional or local pain blocks improves anesthetic safety and provides analgesia, even after the expected duration of action of the drug. Blocks that can be used in any practice will be covered in a step-by-step description, complete with videos.
For camels, the desert is home. For veterinarians, it represents a hiring wasteland. “The percentage of local certified technicians is shockingly low … Tech deserts are everywhere,” Patty Khuly says. Would a title change help? Photo: Bigstock/kaikups
Today, the breadth of narrow AI is expanding vastly through a variety of applications that could impact veterinary practice. Even before veterinary patients arrive at the clinic, patient triage and appointment booking could be facilitated through smart scheduling systems. Such systems could learn to anticipate and factor individual preferences into scheduling, such as client and clinician communications styles, skill sets and task preferences.
In this session: Kathleen Cooney, DVM, CHPV, CCFP, and the Companion Animal Euthanasia Training Academy (CAETA) lays the foundation for a pain-free passing each and every time. Special focus given to dogs and cats, though subthemes will emerge for all species. Let’s say “goodbye” to pain during death.
To have to make that decision for someone else brings with it the fear of making the wrong decision and stopping too early, but also the fear of going too far and causing unnecessary suffering. While we can give our opinion or input to a client, the decision is their own to make. All any of us can do is to use the tools available to us to try to understand what our companion is experiencing and trust our hearts to know the right time.
We caught up Rena Carlson, DVM, with the association’s new president at the AVMA Convention in Denver, Colo., in July to learn more about her leadership style, the changing landscape of the veterinary industry, and AVMA’s current key areas of focus.
Do we really have a shortage of veterinarians? The answer is multifactorial and complex, but it certainly feels like a shortage to most of us. Yet, I can’t help but interpret the fundamental trends that fuel this feeling as stemming from fewer veterinary hours worked and decreased productivity overall—not from a lack of bodies.
“Where Do We Go From Here? Solutions to improve the veterinary mental health crisis” has insight from three people in the industry who bring an extensive range of experience on the topic of mental illness in the veterinary profession.