|Articles|August 8, 2016

#Vetlifehacks: The Platinum Collection

We asked our expert CVC speakers and attendees to tell us their brilliant-as-all-get-out, cant-live-without-it, super sweet life hack that makes veterinary practice just that much easier.

> A clinical super-tip about a peripheral catheter from Kenichiro Yagi, BS, RVT, VTS (ECC, SAIM)

> A hack for the exam room (hint, use your assistant!) from Ernest E. Ward Jr., DVM

> A method for better communication with your team from Brian Conrad, CVPM

> An anesthesia hack to reduce your mechanical dead space from Tasha McNerney, BS, CVT, CVPP

>A pet rehab hack from Debra Canapp, DVM, CCRT, CVA, DACVSMR

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