QUARTERLY BEAT / JULY 2025
February 26, 2025
March 11, 2025
Dental Oral Pathology: Find It and Fix It by Stefanie Perry, CVT, VTS (Dentistry)
• Dental evaluations go beyond just the teeth and start with the conscious patient! Assess facial symmetry, soft tissues, and lymph nodes. During induction, examine the soft palate, arytenoids, tonsils, salivary ducts, glands, and incisive papilla. • If using abbreviations that aren’t widely recognized, be sure to define them somewhere in the medical record. • Consider performing your anesthetized dental procedures in dorsal recumbency to provide a 360-degree view of the teeth without the need for frequent repositioning, which can disrupt the patient’s heat support and possibly cause unintended movement of the endotracheal tube. • Perform systematic dental examinations—count the teeth, check for mobility, and assess from the crown to the gingival margin. Don’t forget to document key indices like the calculus index, furcation index, and mobility index. • Especially in small dogs and cats, always check for symphysis stability. • “Our eyes are not microscopes,” so if you find an oral mass, biopsy it!
The Guard Dog’s Guide to Safeguarding Your Practice from Theft, Fraud, and Adulteration by Jessica Molina, ARM, PHR, CVPM • Awareness of the potential risk of theft, fraud, and adulteration that can occur in your practice is the first step to avoid being a victim. • A few of the most common examples of theft in veterinary practice include timecard fraud, rebate fraud, misuse of company credit cards, and theft of goods or services, although there are numerous other clever ways in which theft can occur in practice. • Strategies for preventing theft and fraud include regularly reviewing your audit trail reports, setting appropriate practice software security levels for each of staff role, limiting or restricting after hours practice access, paying close attention to receipts and invoices, implementing an anonymous reporting system, immediately revoking employee discounts and access codes upon separation, and offering competitive salaries and benefits to reduce financial temptation. • If you suspect theft or fraud, maintain confidentiality, conduct a thorough investigation, document evidence, seek legal counsel, consult law enforcement if necessary, and notify your business owner’s insurance carrier in case of financial loss.
Technician Webinar
March 12, 2025
Combating Antiparasitic Resistance in Beef Cattle Populations: Challenges to Changing Control Programs by Dr. Christine Navarre, MS, DACVIM (LA) • Anthelmintic resistance in cattle parasites is a rapidly growing problem, and currently, there are no new products in the pipeline. • Not all treatment failures are due to resistance; underdosing and improper storage of products are other causes. • The magnitude of parasite impact on an individual ranch is based on pasture factors, cattle factors and level of dewormer resistance. • Diagnostics (quantitative fecal egg count trends, fecal egg count reduction tests) are critical for making informed decisions. • Concomitant use of dewormers from at least two classes of anthelmintic, with a refugia program (targeted selective treatment and/or selective non-treatment), can help slow down development of anthelmintic resistance.
Practice Management Webinar
Large Animal Webinar
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