Clinical

Executive Summary of the 2023 AAHA Senior Care Guidelines for Dogs and Cats

Bexacat is the first oral drug treatment of diabetes in cats and offers an alternative to insulin injections—but veterinarians must choose the right patients due to important safety considerations.

Educating your clients on what respiratory distress looks like can help save a pet’s life. After losing a foster puppy due to respiratory distress, writer Roxanne Hawn set out to clarify what clients should do if they notice breathing problems in their pets, and how clinicians can help educate them.

Rabbit hemorrhagic disease, the deadly virus that emerged in North America in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, is showing up again in 2022. Here is what you need to know about this devastating disease.

Photobiomodulation is an innovative therapy that can increase the comfort of patients and enhance your practice’s multimodal approach to a variety of clinical cases. Knowing how this therapy works and when to best use it is key to its successful implementation.

Wandering around the exhibit hall of any major veterinary conference, you may see a variety of colorful machines promising to make anesthesia safer for your patients. Often clinicians and practice owners will ask themselves: “Which anesthesia monitor is the best investment for my clinic?”

These guidelines update and extend the 2017 AAHA Canine Vaccination Guidelines, providing a current and comprehensive resource for making informed decisions when designing vaccination protocols for dogs. Such protocols promote team commitment, consistent implementation, and effective client education.

Should the lepto vaccine be required for all dogs?  According to the just released 2022 AAHA Canine Vaccination Guidelines, it depends.

Pet ownership among seniors is also on the rise. Yet while many older Americans enjoy having pets and reap the health benefits of compassion animals, the reality is that caring for a pet can become more challenging with age.

Veterinary patients may present to the hospital with a wide variety of wounds. These may include burns, bite wounds, pressure sores (decubital ulcers), severe dermatitis, or trauma such as gunshot wounds, lacerations, or degloving injuries caused by motor vehicles or other factors. In this article, we will go over some of the basics of wound care, as well as some best practices for treatment that veterinary technicians can perform in the practice.