Alyssa Mages, CVT, FVTE, VTES, discusses catheter selection, common placement mistakes, and how preparation and hands-on practice can help veterinary technicians build confidence and improve patient care.
|Articles|November 19, 2013
QUIZ: How much do you know about the American West's wild horse population?
A recent evaluation by a National Research Council committee sheds light on the National Wild Horses and Burros Program.
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B: Correct. Despite population management needs, the BLM announced that because of funding restraints and lack of capacity for maintaining captive animals, it would substantially reduce scheduled removals of horses from public lands this year.
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