From a talk on sedating the critical patient by Dr H. Nicole Trenholme The nausea that we see with pure mu opioids is WORSE when they’re given intramuscularly. Hydromorphone specifically, when given IM, is much more likely to induce …
From Episode 167 on our ECC stream. With Dr Fiona Meyers. You know how, when you diagnose a cat with congestive heart failure, everyone is always surprised, because the cat was ‘fine until yesterday’, and now it suddenly can’t bre…
From episode 170 on our Medicine Stream. With Dr Belinda Hopper. It's not often that we get to add a brand new condition to our list of differentials for a problem. But this is one of those times. At last year's ASAV conference I recorded this…
From ep 165 on our Surgery Stream. With Dr Tania Banks. What’s the trickiest bit of GI tract to suture when you’re doing an end-to-end anastomosis? It’s the mesenteric side, right? All that fat obscures your view, so you can&…
From ep 154 on our ECC stream. With Dr Courtney Reddrop. So you’ve heard that you should not use peristalsis-type drip pumps or syringe pumps to administer red blood cells to dogs, because you’ll pop the cells. But here’s a r…
From a Science Week Session with Dr Tania Banks. You know when you look at a radiograph of a constipated cat and think, ‘that’s a lot of poop!’? Well, did you know that you can make a good prediction about future outcomes and…
From episode 163 on the ECC feed. With Dr Abbie Tippler and Dr Ellie Leister. What do you think about the placement of this NG feeding tube? Looks pretty good, right? Sitting nicely in the stomach. What if I t…
From episode 165 on the medicine feed. With Dr Nellie Choi. Our dermatology lecturer at uni tried hard to encourage us not just to reach for the pred for every skin case. And if bacteria was involved, then the preference was definitely to go w…
From episode 162 on the ECC feed. With Dr Avalene Tan. This is of no real practical relevance for most of us, but it’s too cool not to share! Dr Tan (who has a very useful website and newsletter that highlights the most exc…
From episode 169 on our Medicine Stream. With Dr Johan Schoeman. How much do you love diagnostics for nasal disease? (Me neither.) Even if you do have a scope - it’s very hard to identify the problem area when the entire nose is filled w…