Clinical Pearls

From ep 154 on our ECC stream. With Dr Courtney Reddrop. So you’ve heard that you should not use peristalsis-type drip pumps or syringe pumps to administer red blood cells to dogs, because you’ll pop the cells. But here’s a r…

From a Science Week Session with Dr Tania Banks. You know when you look at a radiograph of a constipated cat and think, ‘that’s a lot of poop!’? Well, did you know that you can make a good prediction about future outcomes and…

From episode 163 on the ECC feed. With Dr Abbie Tippler and Dr Ellie Leister. What do you think about the placement of this NG feeding tube?  Looks pretty good, right? Sitting nicely in the stomach.  What if I t…

From episode 165 on the medicine feed. With Dr Nellie Choi. Our dermatology lecturer at uni tried hard to encourage us not just to reach for the pred for every skin case. And if bacteria was involved, then the preference was definitely to go w…

From episode 162 on the ECC feed. With Dr Avalene Tan. This is of no real practical relevance for most of us, but it’s too cool not to share! Dr Tan (who has a very useful website and newsletter that highlights the most exc…

From episode 169 on our Medicine Stream. With Dr Johan Schoeman. How much do you love diagnostics for nasal disease? (Me neither.) Even if you do have a scope - it’s very hard to identify the problem area when the entire nose is filled w…

From episode 161 on the ECC feed. With Prof Mark Seitz. Maybe it’s a trauma patient, maybe it’s a blocked cat. Whatever the reason, sometimes when you see free fluid in the abdomen you want to check the integrity of the bladder wal…

From episode 75 on the medicine feed. With Prof Jill Maddison. I recently had a case that reminded me of these very important pearls about what I used to believe USG was telling me, and what we can actually deduce from it:  "Nor…

From episode 156 on the Surgery Feed. With Dr. Brendan Janssens. “The 2 cm rule is completely irrelevant, and that has been shown in a couple of veterinary papers where the surgical dose was not predictive of outcome. You can take 5 cm a…

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…