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…
From episode 172 on the Medicine feed, with Dr Izak Venter. Some practical pearls from an ophthalmologist to simplify feline Herpes ulcers: When you see eye ulcers in an adult cat, once you've ruled out dry eye, trauma etc, you can as…
From Otitis 101, episode 173 on the Medicine Feed. With Dr Nellie Choi. Have you noticed that? Your patient has the occasional manky ear that you are able to manage really effectively, but as they get older those infections seem to pick up momentum…
From a talk on sensible steroid usage in the ER by Dr Alex Blutinger. Have you heard about CIRCI? That’s Sepsis/Critical Illness-Related Corticosteroid Insufficiency (CIRCI), where your very sickest patients seem to ‘run out of cor…
From a talk on sedating the critical patient by Dr H. Nicole Trenholme The nausea that we see with pure mu opioids is WORSE when they’re given intramuscularly. Hydromorphone specifically, when given IM, is much more likely to induce …
From Episode 167 on our ECC stream. With Dr Fiona Meyers. You know how, when you diagnose a cat with congestive heart failure, everyone is always surprised, because the cat was ‘fine until yesterday’, and now it suddenly can’t bre…
From episode 170 on our Medicine Stream. With Dr Belinda Hopper. It's not often that we get to add a brand new condition to our list of differentials for a problem. But this is one of those times. At last year's ASAV conference I recorded this…
From ep 165 on our Surgery Stream. With Dr Tania Banks. What’s the trickiest bit of GI tract to suture when you’re doing an end-to-end anastomosis? It’s the mesenteric side, right? All that fat obscures your view, so you can&…
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…