Clinical Pearls

From episode 158 on the ECC feed. With Dr. Doug Mader. I’m no reptile vet, but occasionally I have to treat one in an emergency. This was ALL news to me:  Reptiles have the renal portal system. That means that venous blood that…

From episode 158 on the medicine feed. With Dr. Nellie Choi. You know when you get your ear culture results back, and it's filled with more R’s than a pirate convention? So now what? According to your results you are out of antibiotic op…

From episode 122 on the Medicine Feed. With Dr. Linda Fleeman (also available now on the open-access podcasts) Here’s a conundrum in diabetic cats that diabetes guru Dr. Fleeman brought to light in this conversation:  Your untreated…

From episode 154 on the ECC stream. With Dr. Courtney Reddrop  If you’re not already doing auto-transfusions for your patients that have bled into a body cavity - why not? (This episode is the comprehensive guide on when and how to,…

From episodes 151 and 152 on the Surgery Feed, with Prof Karen Tobias.  So you have your ‘usual suspect’ dog breed for a PSS, and you do a bile acid stim test. But the results come back a bit ‘meh.’ Like 60-somethi…

From episode 149 on the ECC Feed with Nick Merwood and Kasra Ahmadi. Have you heard about using cholestyramine as a decontaminant for toxins that undergo enterohepatic recirculation? Here something important to know about cholestyram…

From episode 153 on the Medicine Feed. With Prof Jill Maddison. You already know about the common non-liver causes of increased ALP, like bone isomers in young animals, steroid or phenobarb-induced ALP in dogs, and of course those vague 'old-w…

From episode 158 on the Medicine Feed. With Dr. Nellie Choi. I’d kinda given up on Wood’s lamps when hunting for ringworm. I’ve taken hundreds of concerned cats with skin lesions into a dark room with my little portable UV light, …

From episode 151 on the ECC stream. With Dr Claire Sharp. We like fentanyl CRI’s because fentanyl is short-acting, which means you can quickly titrate the dose up and down to meet your patient’s needs. And when you switch it o…

From episode 152 on the ECC stream. With Dr Claire Sharp. I find them to be some of the most frustrating cases: you’ve fixed whatever it was that upset the gut in the first place, but now your patient’s GI tract has decided to…