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Are you giving enough praise?Studies show morale and turnover improve when team members feel appreciated.
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Transfixation casting (Proceedings)The major concern of any fracture repair is to maintain adequate stability for fracture healing to occur. The stability provided by open reduction and internal fixation (ORIF) is difficult to achieve with other methods of fracture repair. However, ORIF invades the fracture site, can lead to further disruption of vasculature and soft tissue and may provide a mechanism for infection to develop or persist.
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Raising fees only takes you so farFor too long, practitioners undervalued their services, charged too little and often gave away care for free. Though this may still be true for some, others digested the message about a healthy business supporting good medicine and raised their fees. But to make this equation work, you need to raise the level of service, too.
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Pericarditis: Consider pericardiocentesis and lavagePericarditis is an inflammatory condition of the pericardial lining of the heart. It is characterized by accumulation of fluid, fibrin or fibrous tissue within the pericardial sac. Pericarditis is seen more commonly in young horses.1,2 There is no breed predilection. Male intact horses may be at increased risk.1
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Exercise intolerance, endocrine disorders and chronic weight lossIn addition to arrhythmias, valvular insufficiency as detected by the auscultation of a murmur may result in signs of exercise intolerance.
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Symposium on liver functionHepatobiliary disease is a common cause of morbidity and mortality in small-animal practice. Several factors, however, complicate the clinical detection of liver disease.
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A modern take on burnout and work-life balance in veterinary medicineHave you heard? Everyone is “burned out” these days, but what are employees actually saying and what, if anything, can leaders do to make things better?
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Hazardous therapyNATIONAL REPORT - Brett Cordes, DVM, turned 35 when he felt the lump in his neck.
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Letter to dvm360: Depression article triggers memory from years earlierDr. Marty Becker helped this dvm360 reader get the best of his friendsand brought light to an issue he can relate to all too well.
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Make time for special deliveriesDo you see the faces of your elderly or disabled clients as often as you'd like? When the team at Millsap Veterinary Clinic in Millsap, Texas, noticed some older clients were missing their pets' checkups, they started asking questions-and uncovered a transportation problem. Their solution: a pet taxi.
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USDA labs plow ahead with $447 million planAmes, Iowa-This year's $104 million appropriations to upgrade laboratories at the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) couldn't have come sooner.
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Caring for senior pets-and the owners who love themAn aging cat taught this doctor how to show compassion to clients with older pets.
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Epidemiology of Rhodococcus equi foal pneumonia and control of disease on endemic farms (Proceedings)Rhodococcus equi, formerly called Corynebacterium equi, is the etiology of one of the most severe and devastating forms of pneumonia in foals.
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Good morning, sunshineMaybe you're not a morning person. That's no excuse for waiting until after lunch to greet your team.
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Updates on the anesthetic care of aging patientsLearn more about the relatively new concept of frailty and key interventions for decreasing morbidity and mortality that are often overlooked
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What to expect with the updates to ACVAA's small animal anesthesia and sedation monitoring guidelines for 2025Lydia Love, DVM, DACVAA, discusses the rationale, technological advances, and training imperatives that underpin the updated 2025 ACVAA guidelines
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Stomatitis in dogs and cats (Proceedings)Stomatitis in dogs is relatively uncommon however can cause significant health issues when it does occur.
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Introduction to common chemotherapy agents (Proceedings)Goals of chemotherapy: tumor control, prolonged survival, maintain quality of life.
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Leading Off: Guidelines make managing canine heart disease more clear-cutThese guidelines provide a framework for veterinarians to think about diagnostic strategies to screen for the presence of valvular disease.
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Build a wall of fameNot sure what to do with your empty walls? Charisse Lombardo, an interior de signer and president of CLM interiors in Ridgefield, Conn., suggests creating your own wall of fame.
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Leukosis and paratuberculosis: frequently asked questions (Proceedings)Every year I get numerous calls about Johne's disease and bovine leukosis.
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Toxicology Brief: The dangers of yew ingestionFor millennia, people used yew alkaloids as both a method of suicide and a chemical weapon during hunting and warfare.
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What to put insideDrains and air-return ducts may not seem sexy, but thoughtful choices about behind-the-scenes tools let your new practice work harder for you.
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Imaging of acute thoracic disease (Proceedings)Obvious thoracic disease need not be discussed here. Fulminating heart failure, pneumonia, advanced metastatic lung disease, severe pneumothorax and pleural effusion are reliably diagnosed radiographically. What I would like to share with you are the less obvious radiographic manifestations of acute cardio-respiratory disease and my approach to diagnosis. And remember, in the final assessment much can be learned from the presenting clinical signs. Does the patient have a cardiac murmur or history of heart disease? Was there an observed or suspected trauma?
