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Helping owners handle aggressive cats
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Wayne L. Hunthausen, DVM
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To help aggressive cats and the families that own them, veterinarians must rule out medical problems, take a complete history, make a sound diagnosis, and provide sensible advice.
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Diagnosing and treating common neurologic diseases in rabbits
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James W. Carpenter, MS, DVM, DACZM
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Neurologic diseases are relatively common in companion rabbits and are being identified more frequently because of owners' greater interest in providing better healthcare to their pets, better-trained veterinarians, and improved diagnostic aids.
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CVC Highlights: Canine influenza: Risks, management, and prevention
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Helio Autran de Morais, DVM, PhD, DACVIM (internal medicine and cardiology)
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This virus is transmitted directly dog-to-dog. In fact, it is the first time that influenza has demonstrated efficient horizontal dog-to-dog transmission.
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Don't miss these commonly misdiagnosed GI diseases
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David C. Twedt, DVM, DACVIM
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Dr. David Twedt discusses how a handful of common gastrointestinal diseases in dogs and cats are frequently misdiagnosed, either because they are tricky to diagnose or they are not considered in the first place.
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CVC Highlights: Dispelling the myth of the asocial cat
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Sharon L. Crowell-Davis, DVM, PhD, DACVB
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Contrary to popular belief, cats are not asocial creatures.
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CVC Highlights: Tapping social workers to help support distressed pet owners
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Petra A. Mertens, Dr Med Vet, CAAB, DECVBM, DACVB
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Veterinarians celebrate the strengthening of the human-animal bond because it frequently allows us to provide improved medical care for our patients. However, this bond may also make handling a pet's death or deciding on the extent of an animal's treatment difficult for clients.
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An Interview with... Dr. Corinne R. Sweeney
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Always be honest, says this large-animal internal medicine specialist who helped treat Barbaro. The first error in medicine is making a mistake. The second error is lying about it.
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Idea Exchange: A doggone easy way to identify your stethoscope
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Many of our team members have the same style and color of stethoscope.
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Idea Exchange: Squeeze stains rather than dip slides
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For years I was troubled by artifacts on slides stained with Diff-Quik (Dade Behring) when I used the standard three-jar dip method.
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Idea Exchange: Quicker, cleaner, and easier declaws
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When I perform a feline onychectomy, after the tourniquet is loosely placed on the proximal part of the limb, I squeeze the paw with one hand and milk the rest of the limb toward the body several times before the technician tightens the tourniquet.
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Idea Exchange: Incline patients to avoid aspiration during dental scaling
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In addition to endotracheal intubation, to help keep patients from aspirating water from the dental scaler, we place patients on our wet treatment table on a slope by using a wooden riser.
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Idea Exchange: Additional use for dental X-ray units
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Since few practices can do horizontal beam radiography with standard machines in the operating room, dental radiographic units mounted on a mobile stand can be used to intraoperatively radiograph calculi at the base of the os penis.
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Mind Over Miller: Kicked? Bitten? Scratched? What a great job!
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Robert M. Miller, DVM
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When I moved to the Conejo Valley in California's Ventura County in 1957, the valley had never had a resident veterinary practitioner. Back then, the human population was small, limiting the number of available small-animal patients. However, there were thousands of beef cattle and horses in the area and, intriguingly, an abundance of exotic animals.
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