Equine Medicine

Lameness is a clinical sign. Detecting lameness and evaluating its amplitude is important to equine veterinary practice.

Veterinary hospitals, by their very nature, create a high risk environment for the transmission of infections agents bringing together animals from many different farms with varying levels of compromise.

Veterinarians evaluate the horse at the lunge and perform flexion tests during lameness and pre-purchase evaluations.

Salmonella enterica is commonly associated with epidemic disease in veterinary hospitals and on-farm environmental contamination [1; 2].

Epidemics of healthcare-associated infections in veterinary teaching hospitals are commonly attributed to Salmonella enterica [1].

Evaluation of horse under saddle is performed routinely by some veterinarians and almost not at all by others.

Disease epidemics can progress slowly, affecting only a few animals, or they can progress very rapidly affecting many animals in a wide geographic region, as was seen in the equine herpesvirus-1 (EHV-1) outbreak in 2011 in the western U.S. and Canada.

In the era of evidence-based medicine or the conscientious, explicit, and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients [1] it is critical that practitioners have a strong epidemiological foundation upon which clinical experience and best available external evidence can be integrated.

Diagnostic testing is an integral part of the practice of veterinary medicine but are all test results equal?

Veterinary hospitals, by their very nature, create a high risk environment for the transmission of infections agents bringing together animals from many different farms with varying levels of compromise. Outbreaks of healthcare-associated infections commonly occur in veterinary hospitals with 82% of American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) accredited veterinary teaching hospitals (VTHs) reporting such events within the previous 5 years [1].

Veterinarians must take appropriate precautions to mitigate the risk of infectious disease in patients and hospital personnel.

In this presentation an overview of pathological self-injurious behavior (ESMS) is being discussed.

Lameness in horses is most effectively understood by studying vertical motion of the torso.

This method of delivering antimicrobials to the limbs of veterinary equine patients is easily performed in the field or in the clinic.

Discover which potential risk factors are the most likely culprits in your equine veterinary patients-and how to manage them.

Dr. John Madigan believes pressure in birth canal cues change in neurosteroids.

This renowned veterinary orthopedic surgeon says his success has been due to a lot of luck and stumbling into the right mentors along the way.

In addition to promising treatment options, veterinary equine researchers are working to identify horses at risk for laminitis before the debilitating disease sets in.

An overview of how this debilitating equine condition affects the foot.

Imaging results, clinical signs and individual circumstances all play a part in addressing this increasingly prevalent condition.

Flow chart, videos and more available to practitioners online.

Omeprazole-misoprostol combo marketed to public without safety and efficacy data, FDA says.

See which sport-horse events lead to the same telltale injuries time and time again.

System helps veterinarians determine whether small intestine should be removed.

Do you know the clinical signs of these tree-related toxicoses and how to help affected patients?