Clinical Pearls

Jan. 12, 2025

When a Wood’s Lamp isn’t a Wood’s Lamp

From episode 158 on the Medicine Feed. With Dr. Nellie Choi. I’d kinda given up on Wood’s lamps when hunting for ringworm. I’ve taken hundreds of concerned cats with skin lesions into a dark room with my little portable UV light, …

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Jan. 8, 2025

Fentanyl Truth Bomb

From episode 151 on the ECC stream. With Dr Claire Sharp. We like fentanyl CRI’s because fentanyl is short-acting, which means you can quickly titrate the dose up and down to meet your patient’s needs. And when you switch it o…

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Jan. 5, 2025

How to Paralyse the Intestinal Tract?

From episode 152 on the ECC stream. With Dr Claire Sharp. I find them to be some of the most frustrating cases: you’ve fixed whatever it was that upset the gut in the first place, but now your patient’s GI tract has decided to…

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Jan. 1, 2025

Osteosarcoma Insights

From Episode 155 on the Medical Feed with Dr. Penny Thomas. I always feel a sense of urgency when I diagnose osteosarcoma. If the client wants to try treating, then I’m in a rush to cut the leg off, because it feels like that horrible thing i…

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Dec. 29, 2024

Cholestyramine for Toxin Decontamination

From episode 148 on the ECC Feed with toxicology experts, Nick Merwood and Kasra Ahmadi. We all know and love (hate?!) the black stuff that we shove down throats for our toxin ingestion cases to try to mop up some of the to…

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Dec. 25, 2024

Omeprazole Truth Bomb

From our Podcast Episode #112, with Prof. Caroline Mansfield. I don’t know about you, but at some stage it felt like all of our vomiting patients were getting Proton Pump Inhibitors, ‘just in case’ it helped a bit. We’v…

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Dec. 22, 2024

The FIP(Feline Infectious Peritonitis) cases that DON’T survive

From Episode 151 on the Medicine Stream With Dr. Sally Coggins Hopefully we all know by now that we can treat and cure FIP(Feline Infectious Peritonitis). But my conversation with FIP researcher Dr. Sally Coggins clarified some of the ini…

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Dec. 18, 2024

Paracetamol vs Meloxicam

From Episode 144 on the Surgery Feed. With Dr. Matt Gurney. I still sometimes wonder if I’m putting a screen door on a submarine when I’m prescribing paracetamol for serious pain, despite a few paracetamol conversations on the podcast. …

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Dec. 15, 2024

The REAL Metabolic Causes of Seizures

From Episode 146 on the Medicine Feed. With Dr. Laurent Garosi. Your textbook will give you a long list of potential metabolic causes for seizures, but neurologist Dr. Laurent Garosi says that, in his experience, there are the only a handful of…

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Dec. 11, 2024

Buprenorphine Pearls

From Episode 144 on the Surgery Feed. With Dr. Matt Gurney. I loved this discussion about post-op send-home analgesia options. One commonly used option is to send home a few syringes of buprenorphine to get your patients over the hump, but Dr. Matt…

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