Source: CVC IN KANSAS CITY PROCEEDINGS
August 1, 2010
By:
Virginia R. Fajt, DVM, PhD
One can usually find many sources of information about drugs: FDA website, drug company websites and technical reports, VIN, journals, trade magazines, and so on. The important skill required of veterinarians is to assess that information to determine its usefulness in your daily practice.
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Source: CVC IN KANSAS CITY PROCEEDINGS
August 1, 2010
By:
Robert Larson, DVM, PhD, DACT, DACVPM
Pathogens differ in their virulence, contagiousness, and their modes of transmission. These differences exist not only between pathogens, but for virulence and contagiousness, can also differ between strains of the same species of pathogen.
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Source: CVC IN KANSAS CITY PROCEEDINGS
August 1, 2010
By:
David A. Rhoda, DVM
The agricultural community is an extremely small percent of the general population and much of that population lives in densely populated areas of the country. They draw their perceptions of food animal care from their experiences and perceptions about zoos, their own companion animals, and the visual stories presented electronically from opponents of the animal industry.
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Source: CVC IN KANSAS CITY PROCEEDINGS
August 1, 2010
By:
David A. Rhoda, DVM
Opponents of food animal use rhetoric and disturbing images to incriminate lack of welfare, criticize drug usage, and incriminate modern care practices if they weren't the same method of care as in the past. They have an audience of consumers that have little or no knowledge of food animal care.
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Source: CVC IN KANSAS CITY PROCEEDINGS
August 1, 2010
By:
David A. Rhoda, DVM
Anyone can and everyone does deliver key performance indicators (KPI's) to the dairy who is a stakeholder of the dairy either as an employee of the farm or as a business that is supplying materials or working for the dairy.
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Source: CVC IN KANSAS CITY PROCEEDINGS
August 1, 2010
By:
Virginia R. Fajt, DVM, PhD
The science of how drugs work on the body (or the microorganism or parasite) is pharmacodymanics (its counterpart being pharmacokinetics, how the body works on the drug). In this section, the basic concepts of drug concentration and drug action are followed by a review of the mechanisms of action of the major drug groups used in food animal practice including NSAIDs, glucocorticoids, reproductive drugs, antimicrobials, and parasiticides.
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Source: CVC IN SAN DIEGO PROCEEDINGS
November 1, 2009
By:
Allen J. Roussel, DVM, MS, DACVIM
Indications include traumatic reticuloperitonitis (TRP), abomasal ulcer, peritonitis, uroperitoneum, chronic weight loss, abdominal mass.
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Source: CVC IN SAN DIEGO PROCEEDINGS
November 1, 2009
By:
Grant Dewell, DVM, MS, PhD
One key for profitability for cow-calf producers is pounds of calf weaned in the fall.
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Source: CVC IN SAN DIEGO PROCEEDINGS
November 1, 2009
By:
Allen J. Roussel, DVM, MS, DACVIM
Neonatal septicemia is the most important non-diarrheal disease of calves.
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