December 2023

AAHA president-elect Scott Driever, DVM, urges practitioners to check the numbers, and not just reply on your gut feeling for all things financial. The Community discusses how to set up a fire evacuation plan.

News briefs from across the industry and beyond. This month’s articles include: Hemodialysis Helps Dog Defy Odds of 10% Survival Rate after Antifreeze Poisoning; CareVet, Blendvet, and Hill’s Launch DEIB Initiative; Immunotherapy Drugs Bring Years of Life to Dog; FDA Conditionally Approves Canine Seizure Medication Fidoquel-CA1; and more!

When managing inventory, we want to navigate the balance between two main goals. We want to have what we need in stock for our patients, while keeping the financial performance of our practice in mind. Whether you are a beginner or a seasoned pro at managing inventory, here are five strategies to make inventory easier and help you get back to your patients faster.

This executive summary gives an overview of these new guidelines, with their systematic approach to diagnosis, treatment, and management of allergic skin diseases in dogs and cats. The guidelines describe detailed diagnosis and treatment plans for flea allergy, food allergy, and atopy in dogs and for flea allergy, food allergy, and feline atopic skin syndrome in cats.

As we move towards the end of the year, Karen E. Felsted, CPA, MS, DVM, CVPM, CVA, says it’s a good time to start thinking about the financial health of your practice and what changes you want to make for 2024.

As the end of the year approaches, it’s time to do more than just count tablets, reconcile your count with your computer records, and pledge to track things better next year. Now is the time to rethink what you have on your hospital shelves, and whether that is consistent with your strategies for hospital success and customer service.

Propofol became available to veterinary medicine in the early 1990s and is a staple drug these days. We rely on it for smooth anesthetic induction for both short and long procedures. It is reliable and very recognizable.

If the “great resignation” taught us anything, it’s that people are tired. And the storms won’t abate, given rising costs and a looming recession. The antidote, leadership gurus say, is a new leadership competency: resilience.

In her second appearance on Central Line: The AAHA Podcast, Kathleen Cooney, DVM, CHPV, DACAW resident, explains that a large part of delivering that beautiful euthanasia experience is self-regulation on the part of the vet team, which also helps keep compassion fatigue at bay.

This month’s prize winner is Sadie McDonald, CVT, of Hawthorne Animal Hospital in Glen Carbon, Illinois!