Personal/Professional Development
Animal Sentience: An Inconvenient Truth?
Veterinarians may accept sentience as a truth but that does not have to mean it is used against us.
Personal/Professional Development
Upcoming Educational Opportunities
No matter how you choose to continue your education, the NAVC offers a top-tier experience to ensure you are growing professionally and offering your patients the highest level of care.
Diagnostics
At-Home DNA Tests: Crystal Ball With a Caveat
Whether clients are using at-home DNA tests to satiate pure curiosity about their pet’s breed or as a means to uncover health predispositions, veterinarians should be part of the process as a means of information.
Parasitology
Ear Mites: Uncovering, Treating, and Preventing Infestations
Careful diagnostic evaluation and routine use of acaricides help mitigate infestation with this common parasite.
Nutrition
Step-by-Step Guide to Making an Enteral Nutrition Plan
Although this step-by-step guide can help clinicians make enteral nutrition plans, it is just a starting point.
Preventive Medicine
Vaccination Overview: Leptospirosis
This overview on the leptospirosis vaccine goes over the basics, as well as serovars, serogroups, and sequence types.
Dermatology
Treating Otitis Externa in Dogs
Half the battle of treating otitis externa is figuring out the underlying cause and type.
Oncology
Feline Injection Site Sarcomas: Risk Factors, Diagnosis, Staging, and Treatment Algorithm
Aggressive surgery and other treatments, recommended to be done by a skilled veterinary surgeon and oncologist, is the best hope for prolonging the life of a cat diagnosed with FISS.
Soft Tissue Surgery
A Guide to Exploratory Laparotomy
Exploratory laparotomy is used to diagnose or further investigate problems inside the abdomen that could not be achieved via preoperative diagnostics.
Nutrition
Nutritional Management of a Puppy With Congenital Renal Dysplasia
A large-breed puppy with renal dysplasia required a custom nutrition plan to satisfy its needs for kidney health while it was still growing.