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Feline uveitis: A review of its causes, diagnosis, and treatment
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Jennifer Chang, DVM,
Renee Carter, DVM, DACVO
Uveitis is a common and painful ocular disease in cats that can eventually lead to blindness. | Nonspecific therapy for uveitis
By:
Jennifer Chang, DVM,
Renee Carter, DVM, DACVO
Nonspecific therapy for feline anterior uveitis includes topical mydriatics, corticosteroids, and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs). | Acute lung injury and acute respiratory distress syndrome: Two challenging respiratory disorders
By:
Katherine Snyder, DVM, DACVIM
Acute lung injury and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) are challenging and frequently lethal respiratory disorders encountered in veterinary medicine. | How to obtain arterial samples for blood gas analysis
By:
Katherine Snyder, DVM, DACVIM
Follow these steps to acquire arterial samples to help diagnose acute lung injury or ARDS. |
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Clinical Exposures: Hemophilia A in a Maltese dog
By:
Michal O. Hess, DVM
An approximately 1-year-old male Maltese dog was presented to the Veterinary Clinic of East Hampton for a routine castration. | Practical Matters: Use caution when performing fine-needle aspiration biopsy of ventral neck masses in dogs
By:
Andrea B. Flory, DVM, DACVIM (oncology)
Using ultrasound guidance to perform fine-needle aspiration biopsy is preferred for tumors of the neck. | Practical Matters: Increase your ability to detect pulmonary metastases
By:
Ravinder S. Dhaliwal, DVM, MS, DACVIM (oncology), DABVP (canine and feline)
Most veterinary oncologists prefer three thoracic radiographic views. | Stop simulating reverse sneezes
Observing a bout of reverse sneezing can be quite alarming to a client, especially to a first-time dog owner. | Tie down your tubing
When an endotracheal tube gets pulled out by the weight of the tubing, it can wake up your patient and potentially traumatize the patient's trachea if the cuff is inflated. | Dispense small drug amounts easily
We reuse the sterile diluent vials from our vaccines to dispense small amounts of injectable medication for our exotic patients. | Say "So long!" to stickiness
We used to have a problem with the sticky residue left on our surgical packs and drapes from the autoclave tape. | Mind Over Miller: Radiographing dogs, dolphins, and cowboys
By:
Robert M. Miller, DVM
It's common sense to unite the human and animal medical professions because we humans suffer illness as do all other animals, because many diseases are transmitted from animals to people and vice versa, and because we're inexorably linked. |
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An overview of multiple myeloma in dogs and cats
By:
Rachel Sternberg, DVM,
Jackie Wypij, DVM, DACVIM (oncology),
Anne M. Barger, DVM, DACVP
Plasma cell neoplasms originate from terminally differentiated B lymphocytes that have undergone malignant transformation. | Extramedullary and solitary osseous plasmacytomas in dogs and cats
By:
Rachel Sternberg, DVM,
Jackie Wypij, DVM, DACVIM (oncology),
Anne M. Barger, DVM, DACVP
Another important form of neoplastic plasma cells are plasmacytomas, which arise from soft tissue, where they are known as extramedullary plasmacytomas, or from bone, where they are known as solitary osseous plasmacytomas. | Skills Laboratory: Reconstructive surgery techniques, Part 3: Multiple punctate relaxing incisions
By:
Steven F. Swaim, DVM, MS
When a wound, especially one on a distal limb, is too wide for adequate skin apposition, consider creating these small incisions to relax the surrounding skin and allow for good closure. | Local and regional anesthesia techniques, Part 4: Epidural anesthesia and analgesia
By:
Christine Egger, DVM, MVSc, DACVA,
Lydia Love, DVM
Preoperative epidural injection of local anesthetics and opioids provides excellent preemptive, multimodal intraoperative analgesia; reduces the concentration of volatile anesthetic required to maintain surgical anesthesia; and provides analgesia extending into the recovery period. |
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Research Updates: Single-injection antibiotic treatment for cats with abscesses and infected wounds
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Erika Meler, DVM, MS,
Barrak Pressler, DVM, PhD, DACVIM
Cephalosporins are often used as first-line antibiotics for superficial skin infections in dogs and cats. |
Research Updates: Investigating the impact of vaccine administration site changes in cats
By:
Erika Meler, DVM, MS,
Barrak Pressler, DVM, PhD, DACVIM
Of the currently marketed feline vaccines, those against rabies and feline leukemia virus (FeLV) have been most commonly implicated in sarcoma development. | Make injections easier for small dogs
Make injections easier for small dogs | Keep adhesive glue flowing
Keep adhesive glue flowing | Give patients a place to stand
Give patients a place to stand | Don't forget about refrigerated medications
Don't forget about refrigerated medications | Offer a small gesture at a sad time
Offer a small gesture at a sad time | Mind Over Miller: Why socialized medicine is bad
By:
Robert M. Miller, DVM
Our decisions in life are made to a degree by our personal experiences. I want to share some experiences I've had and why I oppose socialized medicine. |
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