Source: DVM Best Practices
January 1, 2005
By:
Jan Bellows, DVM, Dipl. AVDC, Dipl. ABVP
As a small-animal practitioner, you spend a good portion of your day diagnosing and treating periodontal disease. Unfortunately, due to differences in salivary pH, our patients accumulate plaque and develop calculus five times faster than people. Research shows that 80% of dogs and 70% of cats show signs of gingival disease by the age of 3 according to the American Veterinary Dental Society. Periodontal disease can cause halitosis and pain and may be related to kidney and heart disease.
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Source: DVM Best Practices
November 1, 2004
By:
John C. Huhn, DVM, MS
Minimally invasive surgery is a rapidly developing discipline in veterinary medicine, thanks to its widespread use in human medicine. During the past 20 years, veterinarians have watched a temporally similar development with arthroscopic surgery. While minimally invasive surgery has many advantages over traditional open surgery—including reduced postoperative pain, reduced recovery times, and improved operative results—there is a caveat: It requires specialized training and considerable experience. In this article, I'll focus on one particular minimally invasive technique—intracorporeal suturing.
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Source: DVM Best Practices
November 1, 2004
By:
Michael M. Pavletic, DVM, Dipl. ACVS
Surgical stapling equipment allows the small-animal surgeon to perform a variety of challenging abdominal surgical procedures more quickly and consistently than with conventional, hand-suturing techniques. This article will summarize the use of these devices.
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Source: DVM Best Practices
November 1, 2004
By:
Dean A. Hendrickson, DVM, MS, Dipl. ACVS
We live in a time when polymer chemists work magic with different suture materials to give them specific properties that benefit surgeons. Today's sutures absorb within a consistent time frame every time veterinarians use them, possess specific handling characteristics, demonstrate good knot security, and cause minimal tissue inflammation.
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Source: DVM Best Practices
June 1, 2004
By:
Gary D. Norsworthy, DVM, Dipl. ABVP
My annual visit compliance has skyrocketed to 94% within 18 months of sending out reminder cards.
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Source: DVM Best Practices
June 1, 2004
By:
Byron L. Blagburn, MS, PhD
The CAPC guidelines are based on the concept that awareness of heartworms and other parasites can increase compliant use of broad-spectrum agents.
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Source: DVM Best Practices
June 1, 2004
By:
Ernest E. Ward Jr., DVM
Alex Martin was raised in a dog-friendly home. As a child, he shared a bedroom with his brother and a 60-lb Labrador retriever. Most of his family photos include various dogs the family owned over the years, but no cats are in the portraits. "Cats hung around the house, but were never considered part of the family," Martin says.
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Source: DVM Best Practices
June 1, 2004
By:
Lynn Buzhardt, DVM
Treating just one species is challenging enough, but veterinarians in general practice must care for dogs and cats every day of the week, and many of these general practitioners consider the following two facts incontrovertible:
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