Clinical Pearls

Feb. 16, 2025

The Bubblogram

From episode 161 on the ECC feed. With Prof Mark Seitz. Maybe it’s a trauma patient, maybe it’s a blocked cat. Whatever the reason, sometimes when you see free fluid in the abdomen you want to check the integrity of the bladder wal…

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Feb. 12, 2025

Urine SG Misconceptions and Myths

From episode 75 on the medicine feed. With Prof Jill Maddison. I recently had a case that reminded me of these very important pearls about what I used to believe USG was telling me, and what we can actually deduce from it:  "Nor…

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Feb. 9, 2025

Another look at surgical margins for soft tissue sarcoma

From episode 156 on the Surgery Feed. With Dr. Brendan Janssens. “The 2 cm rule is completely irrelevant, and that has been shown in a couple of veterinary papers where the surgical dose was not predictive of outcome. You can take 5 cm a…

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Feb. 5, 2025

Injection Sites for Reptiles

From episode 158 on the ECC feed. With Dr. Doug Mader. I’m no reptile vet, but occasionally I have to treat one in an emergency. This was ALL news to me:  Reptiles have the renal portal system. That means that venous blood that…

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Feb. 2, 2025

The Relative Uselessness of Culture in those Annoying Otitis Cases

From episode 158 on the medicine feed. With Dr. Nellie Choi. You know when you get your ear culture results back, and it's filled with more R’s than a pirate convention? So now what? According to your results you are out of antibiotic op…

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Jan. 29, 2025

Fat Hangry Diabetic Cat Conundrum

From episode 122 on the Medicine Feed. With Dr. Linda Fleeman (also available now on the open-access podcasts) Here’s a conundrum in diabetic cats that diabetes guru Dr. Fleeman brought to light in this conversation:  Your untreated…

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Jan. 26, 2025

Autotransfusing Bleeding Cancer Spleen Patients

From episode 154 on the ECC stream. With Dr. Courtney Reddrop  If you’re not already doing auto-transfusions for your patients that have bled into a body cavity - why not? (This episode is the comprehensive guide on when and how to,…

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Jan. 22, 2025

Portosystemic Shunts: When the Bile Acids Don’t Make Sense

From episodes 151 and 152 on the Surgery Feed, with Prof Karen Tobias.  So you have your ‘usual suspect’ dog breed for a PSS, and you do a bile acid stim test. But the results come back a bit ‘meh.’ Like 60-somethi…

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Jan. 19, 2025

Cholestyramine and Rat Bait

From episode 149 on the ECC Feed with Nick Merwood and Kasra Ahmadi. Have you heard about using cholestyramine as a decontaminant for toxins that undergo enterohepatic recirculation? Here something important to know about cholestyram…

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Jan. 15, 2025

ALP Pearls

From episode 153 on the Medicine Feed. With Prof Jill Maddison. You already know about the common non-liver causes of increased ALP, like bone isomers in young animals, steroid or phenobarb-induced ALP in dogs, and of course those vague 'old-w…

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