QUARTERLY BEAT / JULY 2025
QUARTERLY BEAT / JULY 2025
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Practical Approach to the Atopic Pet by Dr. Joya Griffin, DVM, DACVD • IL-31 is a pruritogenic cytokine that is the target of several anti-itch medications in veterinary medicine. • Cefpodoxime is considered a "second choice" antibiotic for staphylococcal pyoderma and should be used if indicated by bacterial culture and susceptibility. • Allergen-specific immunotherapy is the only effective way to immunologically reduce allergic flare and can now be administered transdermally by team members. When used appropriately, this may be exactly what they need to be successful.
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Inflammatory Disease of the Nervous System by Dr. Missy Carpentier-Anderson, DACVIM (Neurology) • In veterinary patients, inflammatory disease of the nervous system is more commonly non-infectious (immune-mediated) in origin than infectious. • Patients with inflammatory disease of the nervous system frequently present with a multifocal neurolocalization. • Lateralization matters — if you have a forebrain patient, deficits on the right side of the body typically indicate a lesion in the left forebrain, and vice versa. • Nystagmus direction is a valuable clue; when the fast phase moves towards the side of the head tilt, suspect central vestibular disease. • Tight, rapid circling is present with hindbrain involvement, while large, wide circling is present with forebrain involvement. • In small breed dogs with neurologic signs, always consider inflammatory CNS disease among your top differentials. If the dog looks good in a purse, inflammatory disease of the nervous system needs to be on your list of differentials! • Patients with inflammatory disease of the nervous system often present painful due to the meningitis component of the disease pathology, however, patients with a pure myelitis, and no meningeal involvement, will often not be painful.
March 18, 2025
Performance Review Process That Actually Improves Performance by Randy Hall • When employees leave a review conversation with no clearer path forward, or less motivation than before, the process isn’t working. • Effective performance reviews focus less on judgment and more on growth. That means defining what success looks like, offering regular feedback based on behavior, not assumptions, and helping every team member see how to improve, not just what went wrong. • This approach includes: 1. Using a Success Profile to set clear, outcome-based expectations. 2. Asking better questions that invite ownership and forward progress. 3. Creating consistency and structure to replace one-off, subjective evaluations. 4. Avoiding the common pitfalls that damage trust and reduce engagement. • Performance reviews aren’t just a formality, they’re a leadership tool. When done well, they build the foundation for a more committed, capable team.
YouTube LIVE: Maintaining Appetite in Chronic Kidney Cats by Dr. Heather Kvitko-White, DACVIM • Chronic kidney disease alters the gut metabolism causing dysbiosis. Dysbiosis (like uremia itself) contributes to inflammation, anorexia, fibrosis, and ultimately, CKD progression. Both uremia and dysbiosis significantly impact drug metabolism and excretion. The combined result is that drugs accumulate to higher levels, increasing the risk of drug interactions and side effects like anorexia, vomiting, diarrhea, and decreased gut motility. • Cats descend from desert-dwelling carnivores that evolved to require high-protein diets, making them highly susceptible to the effects of diet on symptoms of CKD. Principles include feeding a diet specifically formulated to be low in phosphorus and animal protein, yet with adequate amino acids to prevent malnutrition, and added anti-inflammatories (omega-3 FAs) and antioxidants to minimize membrane inflammation and prevent oxidative stress. • Oral phosphate binders are underutilized in feline CKD. While various types exist with no proven superiority, all are dietary supplements that must be administered with food to effectively reduce phosphorus absorption from the gut. Administer with the meal, not separately, and not at all if not eating.
The Coughing Cat: Is it the Heart or the Lungs? by Dr. James Barr, DACVECC and Dr. Nancy Love, DACVR • Initial stabilization of cats in respiratory distress is the key to being able to safely proceed with diagnostic imaging. • Oxygen therapy, minimizing stress and bronchodilation are safe and effective initial therapies for cats in respiratory distress. • A checklist for the review of the thorax aids in the systematic evaluation of thoracic radiographs. • An unstructured interstitial pattern is not synonymous with normal; it indicates that fluid or fibrosis is present in the interstitial space. • The right middle lung lobe can sometimes show an alveolar pattern in cats with chronic lower respiratory disease due to decreased aeration or atelectasis.
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