Clinical notes on veterinary medicine, diagnostics and practice, drawn from Vet On It lectures.
Diagnostic confirmation, culture information, infection site and condition-specific guidance from Dr. Lauren Forsythe’s Vet On It lecture, checked against veterinary stewardship guidelines.
Racehorses in atrial fibrillation should not race because they appear to have an increased risk of exercise-associated sudden death.
The equine eye exam proceeds from distance assessment and cranial nerve testing to examination of individual structures and ophthalmic diagnostics.
Horses have a nearly 360-degree visual field, a narrow binocular field and visual acuity that compares favourably with dogs and cats.
Status epilepticus requires seizure control, while rapid neurologic deterioration or loss of limb sensation calls for immediate surgical referral.
Acute and chronic otitis externa usually involve different bacteria, and debris can remain deep in the canal despite clinical improvement.
Clinical signs, diagnostic uncertainty, treatment goals and the limits of survival evidence for canine glioma, from Dr. Susan Arnold’s Vet On It lecture.
A referral framework for suspected acute thoracolumbar intervertebral disc extrusion in dogs, from Dr. Susan Arnold’s Vet On It lecture and the ACVIM consensus statement.
Sample additives, lipemia, hemolysis, nucleated red cells and collection problems that can produce unexpected laboratory results, from Dr. Daniel Heinrich’s laboratory diagnostics lecture.
