Clinical Pearls

From Episode 155 on the Medical Feed with Dr. Penny Thomas. I always feel a sense of urgency when I diagnose osteosarcoma. If the client wants to try treating, then I’m in a rush to cut the leg off, because it feels like that horrible thing i…

From episode 148 on the ECC Feed with toxicology experts, Nick Merwood and Kasra Ahmadi. We all know and love (hate?!) the black stuff that we shove down throats for our toxin ingestion cases to try to mop up some of the to…

From our Podcast Episode #112, with Prof. Caroline Mansfield. I don’t know about you, but at some stage it felt like all of our vomiting patients were getting Proton Pump Inhibitors, ‘just in case’ it helped a bit. We’v…

From Episode 151 on the Medicine Stream With Dr. Sally Coggins Hopefully we all know by now that we can treat and cure FIP(Feline Infectious Peritonitis). But my conversation with FIP researcher Dr. Sally Coggins clarified some of the ini…

From Episode 144 on the Surgery Feed. With Dr. Matt Gurney. I still sometimes wonder if I’m putting a screen door on a submarine when I’m prescribing paracetamol for serious pain, despite a few paracetamol conversations on the podcast. …

From Episode 146 on the Medicine Feed. With Dr. Laurent Garosi. Your textbook will give you a long list of potential metabolic causes for seizures, but neurologist Dr. Laurent Garosi says that, in his experience, there are the only a handful of…

From Episode 144 on the Surgery Feed. With Dr. Matt Gurney. I loved this discussion about post-op send-home analgesia options. One commonly used option is to send home a few syringes of buprenorphine to get your patients over the hump, but Dr. Matt…

From Episode 145 on the Emergency Feed. With Dr Amanda Cavanagh. Ketamine feels like the one drug that is almost always a safe option for sedation, even in risky patients. But ALMOST always doesn’t mean always… In this sedation masterc…

From an article I saw in the VetLit Newsletter We treated a cat for suspected snake bite recently, but a few days into its hospital stay it started showing signs of CHF(Congestive Heart Failure), and a scan confirmed HCM(Hypertrophic…

From episode 140 of the Surgery podcast. With Dr. Toby Trimble. This one is less of a pearl and more of a lightbulb moment. In this discussion about local nerve blocks anaesthetist Dr Toby Trimble explained why local blocks are so important:  …