From Episode 177 on the Surgery Feed. With Dr Jenny Groover. Back in 2024 (remember 2024?!) when I spoke to the great Prof Karen Tobias she referenced a paper that showed that cleaning wounds with tap water can actually yield BETTER results co…
From Episode 180 on the Medicine Stream. With nutritionist Romaine Trousset. Sounds like a weird question, right? But it turns out that it’s a relevant one when it comes to the whole ‘feed your dog like a wolf’ conversation. In th…
From Episode 174 on the Surgery Stream. With Dr Kevin Ng. This is a lovely episode on how to manage and fix cleft palate puppies, but we all know that one of the main stumbling blocks is getting them through those first 4-6 weeks. Many owners …
From Episode 176 on the Medicine Stream. With Prof Lynelle Johnson. I don’t know about you, but I was led to believe that for diagnosing lung disease tracheal washes are kinda useless. Too many contaminants for culture or something along thos…
From Episode 173 on the Surgery Feed. With Dr Kenneth Joubert. Anaesthetist and critical care enthusiast Dr Kenneth Joubert helped me unpack a talk he gave on what we can do to reduce anaesthetic risk. Here are a couple of standout facts that got m…
From Episode 172 on the ECC stream. With Dr Tina Wismer. Your patient has eaten a potential nephrotoxin. You want to monitor its kidneys, and ideally you want to know as soon as possible if there’s a problem, right. And by the time the CREA s…
From Episode 175 on the Medicine stream. With Prof Lynelle Johnson. Confession: I’d heard of the term eosinophilic lung disease, but I thought it was some rare condition that dogs get in other countries where they struggle with lots of l…
From Episode 172 on the ECC stream. With Dr Tina Wismer. Making a 30 kg dog puke because it ate 1 grape always feels a bit excessive, right? But until recently, because we had no idea of what was actually causing the kidney damage, never mind how m…
From Episode 169 on the Surgery Stream. With Dr Nicole Buote. I previously mentioned an article that discussed delayed surgery for GDV’s, where they used nasal catheters to keep the stomach deflated while the patient wait for surgery. B…
From episode 170 in the ECC feed. With Dr Claire Sharpe. Many of the signs in this episode are things you probably know, but I’ve not heard them packaged as concisely in one place as in this conversation. Here are a couple of lightbulb m…