Saturday, September 18, 2010

How to learn how to spay a dog, Part 2: Anesthesia

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Monday evening, at 5 pm, eight of us arrived at the spay clinic. The anesthesia tech who is in charge of the clinc hadn’t arrived yet, but w...
Wednesday, September 15, 2010

How to learn how to spay a dog, part 1: Basic skills

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As my advisor once asked: “How many times do you want a veterinarian performing surgery on your dog to have done that procedure before?” My ...
Friday, September 3, 2010

Veterinary fact of the day: changing the face of large animal medicine

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A few days ago in anesthesia lecture, Dr. Drile announced, “Now we are going to learn about xylazine. All of you in the audience who are wom...
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Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Links post

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Dog stuff Mandatory spay/neuter laws: Follow the (lack of) money (Pet Connection): Why mandatory spay/neuter laws for pets are a bad idea...
Monday, August 30, 2010

Comparative medicine: what is a wallaby?

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[ETA: this post was included in Grand Rounds Vol. 6 No. 49 — a conference in a tropical island resort . There are lots of great posts of a m...
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Saturday, August 28, 2010

Veterinary fact of the day: placing an esophagostomy tube

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Yesterday we learned the theory of how to place an esophagostomy tube. We saw a video of a tube placement on a cadaver dog, but haven’t actu...
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Thursday, August 26, 2010

A day in the life: ethics from large and small animal vets

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I had trouble choosing just one anecdote to relay from today’s lectures, so I’m going with two, and calling this “a day in the life” (of a t...