From Episode 176 on the Medicine Stream. With Prof Lynelle Johnson. I don’t know about you, but I was led to believe that for diagnosing lung disease tracheal washes are kinda useless. Too many contaminants for culture or something along thos…
From Episode 173 on the Surgery Feed. With Dr Kenneth Joubert. Anaesthetist and critical care enthusiast Dr Kenneth Joubert helped me unpack a talk he gave on what we can do to reduce anaesthetic risk. Here are a couple of standout facts that got m…
From Episode 172 on the ECC stream. With Dr Tina Wismer. Your patient has eaten a potential nephrotoxin. You want to monitor its kidneys, and ideally you want to know as soon as possible if there’s a problem, right. And by the time the CREA s…
From Episode 175 on the Medicine stream. With Prof Lynelle Johnson. Confession: I’d heard of the term eosinophilic lung disease, but I thought it was some rare condition that dogs get in other countries where they struggle with lots of l…
From Episode 172 on the ECC stream. With Dr Tina Wismer. Making a 30 kg dog puke because it ate 1 grape always feels a bit excessive, right? But until recently, because we had no idea of what was actually causing the kidney damage, never mind how m…
From Episode 169 on the Surgery Stream. With Dr Nicole Buote. I previously mentioned an article that discussed delayed surgery for GDV’s, where they used nasal catheters to keep the stomach deflated while the patient wait for surgery. B…
From episode 170 in the ECC feed. With Dr Claire Sharpe. Many of the signs in this episode are things you probably know, but I’ve not heard them packaged as concisely in one place as in this conversation. Here are a couple of lightbulb m…
From episode 172 on the Medicine feed, with Dr Izak Venter. Some practical pearls from an ophthalmologist to simplify feline Herpes ulcers: When you see eye ulcers in an adult cat, once you've ruled out dry eye, trauma etc, you can as…
From Otitis 101, episode 173 on the Medicine Feed. With Dr Nellie Choi. Have you noticed that? Your patient has the occasional manky ear that you are able to manage really effectively, but as they get older those infections seem to pick up momentum…
From a talk on sensible steroid usage in the ER by Dr Alex Blutinger. Have you heard about CIRCI? That’s Sepsis/Critical Illness-Related Corticosteroid Insufficiency (CIRCI), where your very sickest patients seem to ‘run out of cor…