Source: CVC PROCEEDINGS
 October 1, 2008
By:Lesley King, MVB, DACVECC, DACVIM
Respiratory changes occur frequently in small animal patients. It is important to recognize, however, that not all changes in respiration are caused by disease of the respiratory system.
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Source: CVC PROCEEDINGS
 August 1, 2008
By:Leah Cohn, DVM, DACVIM
Inhalant delivery of aerosolized medication offers a number of theoretical benefits including an enormous absorptive surface area across a permeable membrane, a low enzyme environment that results in little drug degradation, avoidance of hepatic first-pass metabolism, and reproducible absorption kinetics.
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Source: CVC PROCEEDINGS
August 1, 2008
By:Leah Cohn, DVM, DACVIM
Dyspnea is the sensation of "air hunger", a somewhat anthropomorphic term for respiratory distress.
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Source: CVC PROCEEDINGS
August 1, 2008
By:Leah Cohn, DVM, DACVIM
Recent years have seen the emergence of previously undescribed respiratory infections in dogs and cats.
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Source: CVC PROCEEDINGS
August 1, 2008
By:Leah Cohn, DVM, DACVIM
Cough is a common reason for dogs to be presented for veterinary care, and tracheal collapse is a common cause of chronic cough in dogs.
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Source: CVC PROCEEDINGS
August 1, 2008
By:Leah Cohn, DVM, DACVIM
Bacterial pneumonia encompasses a wide spectrum of disease, from chronic to acute, unilobar or multilobar, and with clinical signs ranging from mild tachypnea or cough to rapidly progressive and fatal pulmonary infection.
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Source: CVC PROCEEDINGS
August 1, 2008
By:Leah Cohn, DVM, DACVIM
Upper respiratory infections (URI) are quite common in cats. Mortality due to common URI is very rare.
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Source: CVC PROCEEDINGS
August 1, 2008
Animals with acute respiratory distress are often some of the most challenging emergency patients seen by veterinarians.
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April 7, 2008
Blacksburg, Va. - 4/7/08 - The role biofilm plays in the development of Bovine Respiratory Disease Complex (BRDC) will be studied, with the help of government funding, by a Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicince professor.
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