dvm360's Australian correspondent Phil Tucak, BSc, BVMS, reports on the success of the new membership model at the Australian Veterinary Association and reforms to the veterinary regulatory framework in New South Wales.
|Articles|July 22, 2010
Farrowing Management/Neonatal Piglet Enteric Diseases
At the end of this module, practitioners should be able to describe the different stages of swine production, and much more. (2 CE credits)
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At the end of this module, practitioners should be able to:
> Describe the different stages of swine production
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> Describe common disease flow patterns in farrow-to-finish operations
> Describe an SPF operation and the purpose of developing SPF biosecurity protocols
> List 3 current food safety issues for the swine industry
> Describe the signs of impending farrowing and the expected events of a normal farrowing
> Describe the pathogenesis of secretory, malabsorptive, and inflammatory diarrhea
> Describe the clinical signs of, diagnostic tests for, and treatment for the common diarrheal diseases of newborn pigs
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