
Heartworms: They're disgusting. They're dangerous. Pet owners shouldn't want them. Here's what veterinary practices and team members are doing to get clients on board with preventing heartworms.

Heartworms: They're disgusting. They're dangerous. Pet owners shouldn't want them. Here's what veterinary practices and team members are doing to get clients on board with preventing heartworms.

You have a passion for the profession and a craving to learn more. And, let's face it, you need a few days away from your practice. Use these timely money tips to make your dreams of attending a national veterinary convention a reality.

Do your clients know how hard your veterinary nurses are working to protect and preserve the health of their pets? Here's how to boost your nurses' cred in your hospital.

"The Banfield Effect" is what CVC educator John Volk called it in a recent session. Thats when Banfield does it, so your veterinary practice wont. That may be a thing of the past if wellness plans are one growing wave of future medical care. So, yknow, if you want to know what to put in your wellness plan, why not take a gander at what we saw on Banfields website right now in their offerings?

Whether a pet has just had a major operation or it has suddenly stopped happily eating whatever drops into its food bowl, Dr. Deborah Linder has a few tricks up her sleeve to help bring that appetite back.

If you take emotional responsibility for everyone else's problems, putting their monkeys on your back and on your mind, you find yourself home at the end of every day in veterinary practice with no room for your own needs.

How to take better dental radiographs and explain to clients the importance of the dental preventive care, diagnostics and treatments you and your fantastic veterinary team provide every day.

You can brush up on slang, dialect, accents and weird vocabulary to reach pet owners in the exam room. But the best way to be understood in veterinary practice is always, first, to listen.

These tools and features are on every badass dental technician's wish list. Spend now, save time (and teeth!) later. Plus, bonus tips on ... toothbrushes and scaler tips!

Are you ready to shine in dentistry? Follow these steps for a polished performance.

Technicians, get ready to digest the diagnostics that help you become key advisors in the workup of patients with gastrointestinal disease.

This book showcases the havoc wreaked by rabies throughout historyand the myths and monsters it has engendered in our cultural imagination.

New to the ICU? Keep this calculations chart on hand so you can spend more time saving and less time scratching your head.

Drs. Dani McVety and Mary Gardner give tips to not only assist the process of death, but also to do good and profound work when it comes to giving a pet their "wings".

Dr. Garret Pachtinger shares the many reasons felines and canines vary in medical responsesespecially when it comes to drug doses.

... or it will be if this dvm360 reader gets the electric radiant flooring she wants. Veterinary architect and Veterinary Economics Hospital Design Conference educator Heather Lewis, AIA, tells her whether it's a good idea.

No money means no care means no healthy pets. We know you dont want to be a pet insurance salesman or pitch veterinary care credit cards, and you dont have to be. Here are some ways to fight through your reservationsor the worries of othersabout these two kinds of products.

Your extended contact with pet owners means extra opportunities for spreading awareness about pain, says Dr. Michael Petty.

Group hopes to have registered veterinary nurse credential adopted in three states by July 2018.

I helped my overworked, stressed-out, freaking-out self by creating a support group online for veterinarians and veterinary team members who feel the same way.

I know, I knowyouve already learned about opioids in school. But considering their prominence in veterinary pain control, its never a bad time to brush up on the basics.

Surgery team, assemble! Its time for veterinarians to let their Super Techs reveal the heroes they were born to be.

Emergency and critical care specialist Dr. Garret Pachtinger shares the veterinary monitors he couldnt live without and explains why theyre so vital.

Dr. Robin Downing wants you to see how you can help lead the way to a brighter future for all pets.

From performing blood typing to administering blood transfusions, here are the blood products you should have on hand in your veterinary hospital.

1. Stop staring so much at cats, dogs. (Seriously) 2. Step up. Those patients need your advocacy!

From the smallest, most easy-going cat to the biggest, most rambunctious dogevery pet deserves a household that's fun, stimulating and encourages exercise.

Every dying pet deserves a plan. Consider these inspiring case studies and tips for to illustrate the power you have in veterinary medicine to help pets live longerwith a better quality of lifefor days, week or months on their path to a peaceful death.

That's your veterinary team and a good client questionnaire. Hear all about it from pain management specialist Dr. Michael Petty.

Elizabethan collars are so four centuries ago. Is it time to step into the present with these new takes on the old solution to post-treatment patients biting or scratching themselves?