QUARTERLY BEAT / APRIL 2025
December 3, 2024
January 7, 2025
Time Management for the Time Poor by Dr. Carolyne Crowe, FRCVS
• Saying “No” is essential to leading a successful life at work and is a key skill to enable you to focus your time and energy on the things that truly need you. • Writing a date next to a task on your to-do list makes you 3 times more likely to achieve it in a timely manner. • If you do not allocate time to each part of your role, you won’t have time to fulfill your role. So what parts do you still need to get booked in?
Leadership Webinar
December 10, 2024
Diagnostic Essentials for the Vomiting Dog by Dr. Holly Brown, DVM, PhD, DACVP (Clinical Pathology) & Dr. Diane Wilson, DACVR • Vomiting and other gastrointestinal (GI) signs are common in sick dogs and are non-specific to the actual underlying cause. Diagnostic labwork and imaging are essential tools to provide accurate diagnoses and appropriate case management. • Identification of inflammatory disease can be challenging, as the whole numbers from a CBC report often do not tell the whole story. Additional information gained by using the CBC cytograms and acute phase protein measurement (e.g., CRP in dogs) can assist in both diagnosing and trending inflammatory disease. • Understanding when and how to best use available imaging modalities can go a long way to reaching a definitive diagnosis. Survey radiographs give a panoramic view of the GI tract. Ultrasonography is great for further evaluation of suspicious areas seen on radiographs (e.g., pyloric outflow, suspected mass). The upper GI series helps evaluate for GI transit time and obstruction. • Machine learning tools such as RapidRead can offer a quick contribution towards a working diagnosis, confirm clinician suspicions, and build confidence in new veterinarians. AI tools should be used with an understanding of what they can and cannot do and in conjunction with other diagnostic tools. They are NOT a replacement for a radiologist.
Vaccine Associated Sarcoma – Myth or Reality? by Dr. Phillip Bergman, MS, PhD, DACVIM (Oncology)
• Independent of adjuvant status, feline rabies and feline FeLV vaccines should be given SQ in the right and left hindlimbs, respectively, BUT BELOW THE KNEE. This is to more readily facilitate a clean margin resection of the tumor through limb amputation if a tumor was to occur at the vaccination site. • Adjuvanted vaccines have been found to increase the risk of developing a feline vaccine-associated sarcoma by at least fivefold, and the best information suggests the risk is at least 10-fold. • The best staging diagnostic to look for spread of a vaccine-associated sarcoma is a CT scan of the tumor and the thorax.
Small Animal Webinar
Small Animal Webinar
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