Clinical

AAHA recently updated the 2018 AAHA Diabetes Management Guidelines for Dogs and Cats. Here’s a quick look at what’s changed—and what hasn’t.

Parasites aren’t the most pleasant part of veterinary practice work. Not only must veterinary teams identify and treat for parasites and educate clients, they must also stay vigilant to protect themselves from zoonotic diseases. To make matters more concerning, parasites are spreading, migrating, and showing resistance to certain treatments.

This is the executive summary of the 2022 AAHA Pain Management  Guidelines for Dogs and Cats. These updated guidelines present a practical and logical approach to the assessment and management of acute and chronic pain in canine and feline patients.

Using validated metrics, the assessment of pain provides a window for recognition of pain and more effective pain management, providing better quality data for the benefit of our patients and addressing the need for evidence-based advancement of veterinary medicine.

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Diagnosing and treating lumbosacral (LS) pain can become a frustrating experience for veterinary practitioners.

Pet insurance has been around for decades, but is still widely misunderstood. So much so that even with a more than 20% growth rate over the past five years, only 2% of Americans have this benefit for their family pet. This article explores a few cases and seeks to offer some clarity on the subject as well.

The 2021 AAHA Nutrition and Weight Management Guidelines for Dogs and Cats discuss the components of a systematic approach to nutritional management of dogs and cats. This Executive Summary provides selected highlights of the guidelines.

To ensure that anesthesia is as safe as possible for each and every patient, remember to prepare anesthetic equipment using this expert checklist.

The most effective way to prevent anesthesia complications is to establish anesthetic processes organized into checklists that ensure adequate preparation of the patient and equipment, minimize the chance for human error, and prevent omission of steps that could impact anesthetic safety.