This webinar will focus on diabetic cats and dogs that present particular difficulties. These include diabetics that present with ketoacidosis, or those that have failed to stabilise despite reasonable efforts to get their condition under control.  Diabetes mellitus is occasionally presented with intercurrent diseases that may affect the management of the diabetes. In particular acromegaly is increasingly being recognised as a complicating factor, however hypeadrenocorticism, hypothyroidisim, and hyperthyroidisim will also be mentioned.

Case examples will be used to illustrate how investigations of unstable diabetics can lead to an improvement in the glycaemic control. Although this webinar follows on from “Diabetes melitus: from first consult to long term survival” given on December 1st 2011, the two presentation are entirely separate and can be viewed independently.

Ian Ramsey graduated from Liverpool University, obtained a PhD on feline leukaemia virus at Glasgow University and then completed his residency at Cambridge University where he was awarded the RCVS Diploma in Small Animal Medicine and the Diploma of the European College of Veterinary Internal Medicine. In 1998 Ian returned to Glasgow University where he is now the Professor of Small Animal Medicine. Ian is the editor of the latest (7th) edition of the BSAVA Small Animal Formulary.

Archived Under: Endocrinology, Internal Medicine

Problems of haemostasis are regularly encountered in practice, whether as frank bleeding following rodenticide ingestion, mucosal bleeds associated with low platelet counts or thromboembolism in cats suffering from cardiac disease. This session aims to provide the delegates with a logical framework allowing quick and accurate identification of the type of clotting abnormality present and how to achieve a final diagnosis.

In the context of a case presenting with a haemostatic anomaly, anticoagulant toxicity, clotting factor deficiencies and platelet disorders will be discussed with reference to the tests available for their diagnosis and, more importantly, guidance on test selection for a given case.  The progression of investigation will follow the diagnostic choices made by the audience when this presentation was recently given face to face, allowing the online delegates to follow a similar train of thought as their peers.

With diagnostic sensitivity it is now apparent that thromboembolism , both venous and arterial, is not uncommon in veterinary patients suffering from a  wide range of traumatic, metabolic, neoplastic and cardiac disease. Some of the underlying causes of thromboembolism will be discussed and particularly the evidence available to guide choice of therapy.

Mark Goodfellow has worked both in private practice and in acaedemia. Previously a clinician in the medicine service at Bristol Vet School with a strong bias towards oncology, Mark recently completed bench work for a DPhil in molecular oncology at the University of Oxford.  Mark is currently a medicine clinician at Davies Veterinary Specialists were he sees cases in all branches of internal medicine.

Archived Under: Clinical Pathology

This webinar will be given by Gregers Gregerson and Kristian Penderson on osteoarthritis. Joint pain due to osteoarthritis is a common disease in dogs, cats and horses. Several investigators report osteoarthritis to be a problem in approximately 20% of dogs above 1 year of age. Osteoarthritis has a great impact on the quality of life of these animals, and joint pain in animals with osteoarthritis can be very difficult to treat effectively. Today most of these patients will be treated with 1) anti-inflammatory drugs, analgesics and hyaluronic acid injections, 2) surgical intervention, and 3) nutritional supplementation. These approaches often offer only a temporary relief and some may have unpleasant side effects, e.g. NSAIDs.The Goldtreat Local Gold Treatment (LGT) technique for osteoarthritis, where metallic Gold implants (Berlock® implants) are placed close to the diseased joints is a medical concept resulting from recent research that has proved that there is a release of gold ions from implanted metallic gold and that the surface square of implants is important. This webinar will look into the findings in great detail.

Archived Under: Internal Medicine, Orthopaedics

The aftermath of an economic downturn in a veterinary practice is typically marked by burnt out employees, overworked owners and systems and facility that are stretched to beyond capacity. What would happen if we looked at the downturn as an opportunity? What if we took the time to revitalize our practice and weed out bad systems and bad employees? What if you became the leader that the team is looking for in a time of uncertainty? This lecture will offer helpful tactics for managing through a downturn while doing what is best for the client and the patient

Archived Under: Veterinary Practice Management

The presentation of critical avian respiratory cases in practice is common place.  The handling, diagnosis, and treatment is challenging, especially for the clinician less experienced at managing avian cases, in particular as many of these cases really are emergency life threatening cases.  Aetiologies range from toxicological, psittacosis (potentially fatal zoonosis), fungal (aspergillosis), bacterial, viral, foreign bodies, trauma, neoplasia and space occupying or obstructive lesions.  In this presentation, the author will work his way through clinical signs, diagnostics and treatment options.  Emergency life-saving procedures, as well as comprehensive diagnostics and therapeutics will be covered.

Neil heads the avian and exotic department at Great Western Referrals in Swindon, where he runs the only ECZM approved avian residency in the UK.  He gained his RCVS Specialist Status in 1992. Neil received his FRCVS in exotic bird medicine by examination in 1996 and became a Diplomate of the European College of Avian Medicine and Surgery in 1997.  Neil has lectured widely on the international circuit and contributed to over 20 books.  Neil received the Mackellar Award in 1991, the Melton Award in 2002, the Dr TJ Lafeber Avian Practitioner Award in 2004 and the Hunting Award in 2005 and the Helga Gerlach award ‘excellence in avian medicine’ in 2011.  Neil is currently Senior Vice President of the European College of Zoological  Medicine and President of the European Board of Veterinary Specialisation..  Neil has held a part time senior lecture post at Bristol University, for the last ten years but he is primarily a clinician – doing the job, full time with exotic patients, primarily parrots and raptors.

Archived Under: Exotics

Chris Newton is a marketer, pure and simple.  He is regarded by many as the ‘godfather’ of small business marketing in Australia.  What he doesn’t know about marketing, indeed what he hasn’t tested and proven in marketing, is not worth pursuing.  His speciality is helping professional practices rapidly grow their profits, ethically and sustainably.
Our second contributor on our webinar will be Dr. Diederik Gelderman.  You may have heard of Diederik.  A former ‘Veterinarian of the Year’ in Australia, he runs a thriving business called Turbo Charge Your Veterinary Practice, and speaks to and coaches vets all over the world.
Our third key contributor is Dr. Sam Bowden, a super successful Australian vet with a serious business brain.  He grew a mixed animal practice from zero profit to $160,000 a year in three years. It was no fluke. In 2004, he bought another practice in a low socioeconomic region that was turning over $170,000 and built it into one of the fastest growing, highest profit practices in Australia.

Archived Under: Veterinary Practice Management

This webinar is given by Daniel Holden on Transfusions

Dan graduated from the Royal Veterinary College, London in 1991. He has spent most of his professional career working in anaesthesia, emergency medicine and intensive care. After postgraduate training at the RVC and time in private practice, he spent eight years at the University of Bristol, where he managed the small animal intensive care unit and the medical emergency service, as well as teaching anaesthesia & intensive care to undergaduates and participating in the clinical anaesthesia service. Dan holds both the RCVS (UK) Diploma in Veterinary Anaesthesia and the Diploma of the European College of Veterinary Anaesthesia and Analgesia, and is a European Specialist in Veterinary Anaesthesia. He also holds the RCVS Certificate in Small Animal Medicine. For the last seven years Dan has worked in his own private practice, as well as providing an anaesthesia & emergency/critical care consultancy service to other practices, university teaching hospitals and pharmaceutical companies.

Archived Under: Emergency Medicine

Got a rat with a nose bleed? Or a coughing guinea pig? Does your heart sink at the sight of another snuffling rabbit? Then this webinar is for you! The variations in respiratory anatomy and physiology or rabbits and rodents will be discussed as  well as the common differentials for respiratory disease in these species, leading to logical diagnostic and treatment planning.

Archived Under: Exotics, Internal Medicine

Seizures are a clinical manifestation of an abnormal electrical activity due to a disorder affecting the cerebral cortex and the basal ganglia. Generalized seizures are easily recognisable, while partial seizures are sometimes more challenging and confusing. It is sometimes difficult to distinguish between partial seizures and “movement disorders”, a group of paroxysmal neurological diseases. Partial seizures could lead to secondary generalization.

Archived Under: Neurology

Alan qualified as a Veterinary Surgeon in Australia and has 23 years experience in practice in the UK and Australia. He has run his own mixed multi-branch practice for 12 years in the UK and studied for a Diploma in Management. He has worked as a consultant in the areas of technical service, training, product development and marketing for the veterinary pharmaceutical industry and has successfully delivered coaching and management consultancy in electronics, pharmaceutical, global retail and veterinary industries

Archived Under: Veterinary Practice Management