Veterinary Clinical Podcasts

Joining us on the podcast we are delighted to have the amazing Dr Claire Sharp. Claire is Associate Professor at Murdoch University (Perth, Australia) and has such a wide range of academic interests we could talk to her about anything from trauma to sepsis, coagulation to CPR but we thought we would have an antipodean chat about snake envenomation. From clinical presentation, to tips on treatment recommendations as well as what the future holds, we hope that you enjoy. 

Links to some relevant papers:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32743816/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32390184/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29857087/

To Cite this podcast as: Dom Barfield. RVC Clinical Podcast 154 Snake envenomation with Claire Sharp. Published on Feb 26 2026

If you have any comments about this podcast, please get in touch: email dbarfield@rvc.ac.uk; or podcast@rvc.ac.uk or Instagram @rvcclinicalpodcast. We would greatly appreciate your time to rate us on Apple podcast, Spotify or whatever platform you listen from and kindly write us a review.

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Joining Brian and myself in a room on campus, we are delighted to have Professor Richard Meeson join us. Richard is one of our fantastic orthopaedic surgeons here at the RVC. We thought we’d ask him some questions separating the fact from the fiction in osteoarthritis. The reason we are not in the studio is that it might not look so good visually, and yes if you are keen you can watch this as a video podcast. We hope that you enjoy. 

Links to some relevant papers:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29618832/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32411739/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35372534/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32835227/

To Cite this podcast as: Dom Barfield. RVC Clinical Podcast 153 Myths in Osteoarthritis with Richard Meeson. Published on Feb 6 2026

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Joining Brian and myself in our studio we are delighted to have Dr Catriona Jenkinson join us. Catriona is one of our fantastic internal medicine residents here at the RVC. Cat gave a talk to the hospital on erythrocytosis and thought that it would have interest to a wider audience, not a common condition, though how often can you prescribe a course of leeches? We hope that you enjoy.

Links to some relevant papers:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31472727/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38383003/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38452480/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38452480/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29364032/

To Cite this podcast as: Dom Barfield. RVC Clinical Podcast 152 Erythrocytosis with Catriona Jenkinson. Published on Oct 31 2025 If you have any comments about this podcast, please get in touch: email dbarfield@rvc.ac.uk; or podcast@rvc.ac.uk or Instagram @rvcclinicalpodcast. We would greatly appreciate your time to rate us on Apple podcast, Spotify or whatever platform you listen from and kindly write us a review.

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Joining Brian and myself in our studio we are delighted to have Dr Matthew Simpson. Matt is one of our fabulous lecturers in soft tissue surgery here at the RVC. We thought we’d talk about approach to GI surgery, from suture techniques to staples.  We hope that you enjoy.

Link to relevant paper: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35090778/

To Cite this podcast as: Dom Barfield. RVC Clinical Podcast 151 Gastrointestinal Surgery with Matthew Simpson. Published on Oct 24 2025

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Joining Brian and myself in our studio we are delighted to have Dr Chris Scudder join us. Chris is one of our outstanding internal medics here at the RVC and interested in all things endocrine, but we thought we’d catch up with him about one of his other passions, intravenous catheters. How much do we know about the most common intervention in small animal practice? We hope that you enjoy.  

Link to the main paper we discuss:https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39238283/  

To Cite this podcast as: Dom Barfield. RVC Clinical Podcast 150 Intravenous catheters with Chris Scudder. Published on Aug 1 2025

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Joining Brian and myself in our virtual studio we are delighted to have Dr Rosie Allister join us. She has kindly spoken to us before, the last time in 2021 (Podcast 124). Rosie manages the Vetlife helpline, a 24-hour support service for everyone in the UK veterinary community.  Her research, based at the University of Edinburgh, looks at veterinary mental health, wellbeing at work, and veterinary suicide prevention. She has written and spoken extensively about veterinary mental health nationally and internationally. She is an expert in the transition of veterinary student to veterinarian and we thought we’d catch up on Vetlife and provide tips for new graduates on how to plan for the upcoming transition. We hope that you enjoy.

Contact vetlife:
https://www.vetlife.org.uk
Or 0303 040 2551  

Links to some of Rosie’s research:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32220989/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33739493/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39395434/

To Cite this podcast as: Dom Barfield. RVC Clinical Podcast 149 Vetlife 2025 with Rosie Allister. Published on May 2 2025

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Joining Brian and myself in our virtual studio we are delighted to have Matt Ozment join us. Matt is an employment lawyer in South Carolina and is married to a vet (that is the veterinary connection). I approached Matt to ask him to talk on the podcast about contracts. Something that I’ve been asked about over the years by our graduates going into practice and thought a podcast might be the way I can ask an expert, Matt, these questions. We hope that you enjoy.

If you are in South Carolina and have a question for Matt – get in contact: matt@go-lawyers.com
To find a lawyer in the US contact your State Bar Association (e.g. in Colorado https://www.cobar.org).
To find a lawyer in the UK search the Law Society website: https://www.lawsociety.org.uk
To find a lawyer in Australia, each state/territory has its own Law Society (e.g. ACT: https://actlawsociety.asn.au/find-a-lawyer )
To find a lawyer in New Zealand search the Law Society website: https://www.lawsociety.org.nz
To find a lawyer in Canada, each province has its own Law Society (e.g. in Ontariohttps://lso.ca/home )

To Cite this podcast as: Dom Barfield. RVC Clinical Podcast 148 Contracts with Matt Ozment. Published on Mar 7 2025 
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Joining Brian and myself in our actual studio we are delighted to have Dr Nekesa Morey with us. Nekesa is one of our fabulous cardiologists here at the RVC. We thought it would be a good idea to have a chat about common heart murmurs in puppies, how we can diagnose what is going on, and what treatment options are available. We hope that you enjoy.

If you are looking to send a puppy to us
https://www.rvc.ac.uk/small-animal-vet/specialist-referrals/clinical-services/veterinary-cardiology/puppy-heart-clinic 

To Cite this podcast as: Dom Barfield. RVC Clinical Podcast 147 Heart murmurs in puppies with Nekesa Morey. Published on Dec 27 2024

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Joining Brian and myself in our virtual studio we are delighted to have Dr Clive Elwood with us. Clive, an RVC alumnus (his PhD and Masters in Immunology), spent 20 years in private referral practice, where he was Managing Director. He now runs his own coaching business. He decided to write the book that he wished existed on veterinary leadership, and we thought that it would be a good idea to chat to him about his take on leadership in the veterinary profession. We hope that you enjoy.

How to find Clive
https://trelliscoaching.co.uk/

Clive’s book if you are in the UK
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Leadership-Veterinary-Medicine-Clive-Elwood/dp/111974976X
Or the US https://www.wiley.com/en-br/Leadership+in+Veterinary+Medicine-p-9781119749769
Or Australia https://www.amazon.com.au/Leadership-Veterinary-Medicine-Clive-Elwood/dp/111974976X

To Cite this podcast as: Dom Barfield. RVC Clinical Podcast 146 Leadership with Clive Elwood. Published on Dec 20 2024

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Joining Brian and myself in our virtual studio we are overwhelmed to be in the company of the magnificent, internationally renowned Professor Dan Fletcher, from the College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University. Dr Fletcher with his co-chairs Dr Boller, Dr Burkitt and Program Director Ken Yagi have collated the evidence to provide the veterinary community with evidence-based guidelines for cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in dogs and cats. The original guidelines came out in 2012, and the scope of this initiative is wide and their coverage immense. Ploughing back proceeds into educational development tools, in-person training, research database, apps, and simulation training, computer programmes and of course new guidelines. Do you know what you need to know, when you need to know it? If not have a listen and then download and read the guidelines and put up the algorithm posters on your walls, and if you can take the course. It was great to talk to Prof Fletcher about this, inspirational. We hope that you enjoy.

Some websites of interest
https://recoverinitiative.org
https://learning.acvecc.org/
https://www.vetsim.org/open-vetsim

The guidelines
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14764431/2024/34/S1

We will be running some RECOVER rescuer workshops at the RVC next year.
https://cpd.rvc.ac.uk/cpd-courses/recover-certification-workshopWorkshops
globally are listed elsewhere on the RECOVER website
https://recoverinitiative.org/certification-workshops/

To Cite this podcast as: Dom Barfield. RVC Clinical Podcast 145 RECOVER update 2024 CPR guidelines with Dan Fletcher. Published on Dec 13 2024 If you have any comments about this podcast, please get in touch: email dbarfield@rvc.ac.uk; or podcast@rvc.ac.uk or Instagram @rvcclinicalpodcast. We would greatly appreciate your time to rate us on Apple podcast, Acast or Spotify and kindly write us a review.

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Joining Brian and myself in our virtual studio we are delighted to have Dr Aoife Ryan, one of our amazing lecturers in our Anaesthesia and Analgesia Team here at the RVC. Aoife had recently published a paper looking at the environmental impact, carbon emissions, of a routine surgical procedure. It is good to consider how we can reduce our carbon footprint personally and professionally and Aoife provides some take home messages around your anaestheised patient.

We hope that you enjoy.

Some websites of interest
https://vetsustain.org
https://www.bva.co.uk/take-action/green-team-vet/

The paper we talk about
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39551688/

To Cite this podcast as: Dom Barfield. RVC Clinical Podcast 144 Anaesthesia sustainability with Aoife Ryan. Published on Dec 6 2024

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Joining Brian and myself in our studio we are delighted to have Dr Sarah Tayler, one of our fabulous lecturers and Dr Jodie Green, one of our amazing residents both in our Small Animal Internal Medicine team here at the RVC. We thought it was time to catch up about Feline Infectious Peritonitis (FIP), it has been a couple of years and we are understanding a little more about the therapies that we have, trying to find out why some patients don’t respond to therapy (going from a nearly 100% mortality to 20% and we are asking questions about these 20% - how times change quickly). We have a little more experience now in using these drugs in the UK, built on information from our Australian colleagues, and now they are available in the USA. We hope that you enjoy.

Some websites of interest

https://www.rvc.ac.uk/small-animal-vet/specialist-referrals/clinical-services/veterinary-internal-medicine/feline-infection-peritonitis

https://bova.co.uk/resources/bova-scholars/

have webinars on FIP

https://www.rvc.ac.uk/small-animal-vet/news/successful-fip-treatment-with-remdesivir 

Some papers of interest

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37766254/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37548535/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36002137/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37403259/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37732386/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37551843/

To Cite this podcast as: Dom Barfield. RVC Clinical Podcast 143 Feline Infectious Peritonitis 2024 with Sarah Tayler and Jodie Green. Published on Jun 28 2024 If you have any comments about this podcast, please get in touch: email dbarfield@rvc.ac.uk; or podcast@rvc.ac.uk or Instagram @rvcclinicalpodcast. We would greatly appreciate your time to rate us on Apple podcast, Acast or Spotify and kindly write us a review.

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Joining Brian and myself in our virtual studio we are joined by the fantastic Richard Sparrow, Staff Clinician in Internal Medicine here at the RVC. Richard recently published a paper looking at relapse rates in immune mediated diseases (immune mediated haemolytic anaemia, immune mediated thrombocytopenia and immune mediated polyarthritis) in dogs and we thought to use this as a sounding board for a conversation about this topic, how to treat and taper immunosuppressive drugs and what do we do about ongoing preventative healthcare, such as vaccination. We hope that you enjoy.  

Reference: 

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jvim.17004

To Cite this podcast as: Dom Barfield. RVC Clinical Podcast 142 Relapse of dogs with immune mediated disease with Richard Sparrow. Published on May 17 2024

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Joining Brian and myself in our studio (three times a charm) we are delighted to speak to Nicola Ho, Lecturer in Anaesthesia and Analgesia here at the RVC. Nicola, with her anaesthesia colleagues, sent out a questionnaire to those anaesthesia vets, nurses and technicians to find out how sleep and fatigue affected them. It is an interesting and pertinent topic when most of us have roles in which we need to work shift work and/or be on call and how that might affect us, and the patients we look after. It might not have answers though a space to start or continue the conversation to think about what you can do to make it better where you are for you and your team. We hope that you enjoy.

Some references:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37142463/

To Cite this podcast as: Dom Barfield. RVC Clinical Podcast 141 Sleep, fatigue and mental health with Nicola Ho. Published on Dec 22 2023   If you have any comments about this podcast, please get in touch: email podcast@rvc.ac.uk or follow us on instagram @rvcclinicalpodcast. We would greatly appreciate your time to rate us on Apple podcast, podbean or Acast and kindly write us a review.

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Joining Brian and myself in our studio (again, that is two in a row) we delighted to speak to Chris Scudder, Senior Lecturer in Internal Medicine and Co-Head of the Internal Medicine Team here at the RVC. There has been a couple of new drugs on the market one in the USA (bexagliflozin) and one in the UK (velagliflozin) both SGLT-2 inhibitors, oral hypoglycaemic agents to be used in newly diagnosed diabetic cats. We thought we’d chat to Chris about the information that is out there about these agents, how they can be used and what questions we have about their use. He recently spoke to our ECC team about euglycaemic diabetic ketoacidosis (eDKA) and I was intrigued. We hope that you enjoy.

Some references: 

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37148170/ 

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34975223/ 

There is an abstract on page 2512 here
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jvim.16559

To Cite this podcast as: Dom Barfield. RVC Clinical Podcast 140 Oral hypoglycaemic drugs for diabetic cats with Chris Scudder. Published on Dec 15 2023 

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Joining Brian and myself in our studio (yes that is right we are back) we are delighted to speak to Lynda Rutherford, Senior Lecturer in Soft Tissue Surgery and Head of Soft Tissue Surgery here at the RVC. I thought we’d continue the theme of the last podcast on feline urethral obstruction and speak to a surgeon about this subject, really what you can do if you can’t place a urethral catheter (is there a stone that you can’t hydro-pulse, unlikely) but maybe there is a urethral tear (traumatic or iatrogenic). Lynda kindly spoke to us about BOAS previously and it is always good to catch up.  Lynda gave a talk to the hospital about on this topic and thought it would be good to share with a wider audience, we hope that you enjoy.  

Some references: 

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21515222/ 

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35363097/ 

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17501659/ 

To Cite this podcast as: Dom Barfield. RVC Clinical Podcast 139 Lower urinary tract surgerywith Lynda Rutherford. Published on Dec 8 2023 

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Joining Brian and myself in our virtual studio we are delighted to speak to Professor Edward Cooper, Section Head of Small Animal Emergency and Critical Care at The Ohio State University. I thought we’d continue the theme of the last podcast on feline urethral obstruction and speak to an international authority on the subject, who has been trying to answer some fundamental questions about this topic. He kindly returned my email and spoke to us, despite technical issues he was incredibly patient. Prof Cooper is clearly passionate about this topic and it was great to talk, we hope that you enjoy.

Link to Prof Cooper’s bio: https://vet.osu.edu/cooper-edward 

Some references:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21118011/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31250535/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31840942/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36779411/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33620246/

To Cite this podcast as: Dom Barfield. RVC Clinical Podcast 138 Feline Urethral Obstruction with Edward Cooper. Published on April 28 2023

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Joining Brian and myself in our virtual studio (had to dust off the microphone, apologies for that) we are delighted to have Dr Dave Beeston, one of our final year residents in Emergency and Critical Care, here at the RVC. Dave has many interests and enthusiasm for a variety of ECC topics and is no stranger to this podcast regarding his own career journey, though we thought we'd talk to him about one of his research papers, regarding the occurrence and clinical management of urethral obstruction in male cats, a vetcompass study looking at cats in primary care in the UK. We hope that you enjoy.

The paper discussed: Beeston, D., Humm, K., Church, D.B., Brodbelt, D. and O'Neill, D.G., 2022. Occurrence and clinical management of urethral obstruction in male cats under primary veterinary care in the United Kingdom in 2016. Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine, 36(2), pp.599-608. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35199370/

To Cite this podcast as: Dom Barfield. RVC Clinical Podcast 137
Urethral obstruction management in primary care with David Beeston. Published on April 14 2023   If you have any comments about this podcast, please get in touch: email dbarfield@rvc.ac.uk; tweet @dombarfield. We would greatly appreciate your time to rate us on Apple podcast, podbean or Acast and kindly write us a review.

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Joining Brian and myself in our virtual studio we are delighted to have Dr Emily Hall, one of our lecturers in Veterinary Education here at the RVC. Emily has been working with the VetCompass group looking at Heat Related Illness in the UK and we thought we'd talk to her to about her research in this field and the questions that left unanswered.  We hope that you enjoy.

Emily has her own blog on this topic too, where you can find links to the papers. http://heatstroke.dog/

There is even an infographic: https://www.rvc.ac.uk/Media/Default/VetCompass/210324%20EH%20Heat%20Stroke%20infographic.pdf
And Congress abstract recordings to watch:  https://www.rvc.ac.uk/vetcompass/audio-visual-resources/conference-presentations

Some references of interest:
Hall, Hall, E. J., Carter, A. J., & O’Neill, D. G. (2020). Incidence and risk factors for heat related illness (heatstroke) in UK dogs under primary veterinary care in 2016. Scientific Reports, 10(1), 9128. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-66015-8
Hall, E. J., Carter, A. J., & O’Neill, D. G. (2020). Dogs Don’t Die Just in Hot Cars—Exertional Heat-Related Illness (Heatstroke) Is a Greater Threat to UK Dogs. Animals, 10(8), 1324. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani10081324
Hall, E. J., Carter, A. J., Bradbury, J., Barfield, D., & O’Neill, D. G. (2021). Proposing the VetCompass clinical grading tool for heat-related illness in dogs. Scientific Reports, 11(1), 6828. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-86235-w
E. J., Carter, A. J., Chico, G., Bradbury, J., Gentle, L. K., Barfield, D., & O’Neill, D. G. (2022). Risk Factors for Severe and Fatal Heat-Related Illness in UK Dogs—A VetCompass Study. Veterinary Sciences, 9(5), 231. https://doi.org/10.3390/vetsci9050231
Carter, A. J., & Hall, E. J. (2018). Investigating factors affecting the body temperature of dogs competing in cross country (canicross) races in the UK. Journal of Thermal Biology, 72, 33–38. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtherbio.2017.12.006

To Cite this podcast as: Dom Barfield. RVC Clinical Podcast 136 Heat Related Illness with Emily Hall. Published on November 18 2022

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Joining Brian and myself in our virtual studio we are delighted to have Dr Rosanne Jepson, Associate Professor in Internal Medicine here at the RVC. Rosanne has many research and clinical interests, though she has been steering our antimicrobial stewardship in our hospital for many years. It is World Antimicrobial Awareness week 18-24 November. We talk about what we are doing and asking our clients and hopefully give you some ideas on what you can do and how you and your teams can participate in this One Health initiative.  We hope that you enjoy.  

WHO https://www.who.int/campaigns/world-antimicrobial-awareness-week/2022 

RCVS Knowledge https://knowledge.rcvs.org.uk/amr/antibiotic-amnesty/Which has the RUMA (Responsible Use of Medicines Alliance) questionnaire link for clients.  

Some papers of interest:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33405979/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25721619/ 

To Cite this podcast as: Dom Barfield. RVC Clinical Podcast 135 Antimicrobial Awareness Week with Rosanne Jepson. Published on November 11 2022 

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Joining Brian and myself in our virtual studio we are delighted to have Dr Sara Lawrence-Mills, one of our fabulous residents in Anaesthesia and Analgesia here at the RVC. Sara has taken an interest into the endothelial glycocalyx and we thought we'd talk to her to find out why.  We hope that you enjoy.  

Some references of interest:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35654338/
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fvets.2021.661660/full
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22290457/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32067360/ 

To Cite this podcast as: Dom Barfield. RVC Clinical Podcast 134 Endothelial glycocalyx with Sara Lawrence-Mills. Published on September 30 2022

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Joining Brian and myself in our virtual studio (although again I crept into the studio) we are delighted to have Dr Jack Lawson, one of our fabulous lecturers in Internal Medicine here at the RVC. We talk to him about canine mast cell tumours. Current recommendations and what is new. We hope that you enjoy.

The review paper we discuss, further references are in the article:https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34428941/ 

To Cite this podcast as: Dom Barfield. RVC Clinical Podcast 133 Chronic kidney disease and hypertension in cats with Jack Lawson. Published on May 13 2022

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Joining Brian and myself in our virtual studio (although I was actually in the studio by myself) we are delighted to have Dr Andy Yale, one of our fabulous lecturers in Oncology (congratulations too on passing your board examinations this year and he is now an EBVS® European Veterinary Specialist in Small Animal Oncology). We talk to him about canine mast cell tumours. Current recommendations and what is new. We hope that you enjoy.  Some papers of interest (there are lots more)

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32542733/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34977208/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34513966/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34671978/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33724647/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34513966/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33222871/

To Cite this podcast as: Dom Barfield. RVC Clinical Podcast 132 Canine Cutaneous Mast Cell Tumour with Andy Yale. Published on May 6 2022 If you have any comments about this podcast, please get in touch: email dbarfield@rvc.ac.uk; tweet @dombarfield. We would greatly appreciate your time to rate us on Apple podcast or Acast and kindly write us a review.

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Access to plain radiography is very widespread now in veterinary medicine. As with any diagnostic test it is essential to make sure that we use this modality in the best ways possible for our patients, their carers and indeed our personal and professional performance. In this episode I am joined by Andrew Parry who is a European specialist in Veterinary Diagnostic Imaging and a member of the Diagnostic Imaging team at the QMHA. Most of this long episode is spent discussing Andy's top 10 tips for how to get the most value out of plain radiography and radiology but we also talk about advanced imaging modalities that are becoming increasingly available and consider some of the issues surrounding this development.

To summarise, Andy's top 10 tips were as follows:

The more specific the question that you want to answer is, the more likely the imaging modality will answer it. Imaging used as a screening tool is rarely very useful. Make sure the appropriate imaging has been done. When do we use a retrograde study for example?Pay attention to patient positioning.Using an exposure guide in practice can be really useful.Just because you are using a CR system, you should still be careful about radiographic technique.When imaging the thorax, a high KV, high mA and low S technique should be used. When imaging the abdomen a low KV, high mA and higher S technique should be used.With dyspnoiec cats, you can take a DV thoracic radiograph by placing the cassette within the cat carrier and exposing through the open box. Most dyspnoiec cats will lie in a roughly DV position and it’s better than manual restraint.When imaging the thorax under sedation or anaesthesia, obtain the DV first, before the laterals. Inflate the chest if under GA.When obtaining limb radiographs, if you are uncertain whether a finding on one limb is truly significant, radiograph the contralateral limb.The more effort you put into your imaging study, the more likely you are to get a result. It’s all about making it easy for yourself.When describing a radiograph, describe the obvious things that you see first. That means you wont be constantly distracted by them.

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Lymphoma (previously often referred to as lymphosarcoma) is one of the most (if not the most?) common types of cancer to affect dogs and cats. In this episode we discuss lymphoma in general terms covering a variety of topics such as what it is, patient presentation, clinical approach to the patient, treatment options and prognosis. For this episode I am joined once again by Chiara Leo, Lecturer in Oncology at the Royal Veterinary College.

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(Image: "Canine lymphoma 1" by Joel Mills - Own work (Wikipedia))

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In and amongst all the science and medicine that are at the centre of veterinary practice, it is essential that we don't overlook the overarching principles and considerations relating to Ethics and Animal Welfare. After all, they have to be a guiding light for what we do in clinical practice. This is the second in a two-part mini-series of podcast episodes featuring Martin Whiting, Lecturer in Veterinary Ethics and Law here at the RVC. In these episodes we discuss a variety of topics and issues. We start with discussing what 'veterinary ethics' and 'animal welfare' mean and then spend the remainder of the time seeing how these concepts apply to a variety of small animal clinical scenarios. The podcasts end with some comments on professional ethics in the context of regulatory bodies.

If you haven't listened to Part 1, we would recommend you do this before listening to this second episode.

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In and amongst all the science and medicine that are at the centre of veterinary practice, it is essential that we don't overlook the overarching principles and considerations relating to Ethics and Animal Welfare. After all, they have to be a guiding light for what we do in clinical practice. This is the first in a two-part mini-series of podcast episodes featuring Martin Whiting, Lecturer in Veterinary Ethics and Law here at the RVC. In these episodes we discuss a variety of topics and issues. We start with discussing what 'veterinary ethics' and 'animal welfare' mean and then spend the remainder of the time seeing how these concepts apply to a variety of small animal clinical scenarios. The podcasts end with some comments on professional ethics in the context of regulatory bodies. 

As always, if you have any comments about this podcast, please get in touch (email sjasani@rvc.ac.uk; tweet @RoyalVetCollege using #saclinpod; or use the RVC's Facebook page).

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This is the second part in the two-part mini-series on corneal ulceration in dogs and cats with Màrian Matas Riera who is a lecturer in Ophthalmology here at the RVC. If you haven't listened to Part 1 yet it is highly recommended that you listen to that episode first as we dive right back in here in the second part. In this two-part podcast mini-series we start with a refresher of the anatomy of the eye and more specifically the anatomy and function of the cornea. We then discuss causes of corneal pathology and the spectrum of severity in ulcerative keratitis. Examination of the patient and appropriate treatment according to severity are discussed and the podcast mini-series is rounded off with some chat about corneal transplant and a quick tangent on diabetic cataracts!

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Finally some Ophthalmology! Corneal ulceration (ulcerative keratitis) is a problem that is encountered commonly in small animal practice and the approach to treatment depends on a good understanding of the severity of the problem in the individual patient. In this two-part podcast mini-series we start with a refresher of the anatomy of the eye and more specifically the anatomy and function of the cornea. We then discuss causes of corneal pathology and the spectrum of severity in ulcerative keratitis. Examination of the patient and appropriate treatment according to severity are discussed and the podcast mini-series is rounded off with some chat about corneal transplant and a quick tangent on diabetic cataracts! I am joined for this feast of Ophthalmology by Màrian Matas Riera who is a lecturer in Ophthalmology here at the RVC. Part 2 of this mini-series will be uploaded in approximately 3 weeks' time.

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This is the second part of my discussion on blocked cats with Dr Rosanne Jepson, Lecturer in Small Animal Internal Medicine and Dominic Barfield, Lecturer in Emergency and Critical Care; and in absentia with Nicola Kulendra, Lecturer in Small Animal Surgery. And of course like in the first episode I can't help but chip in as well! As nentioned in the last post, there is a lot to talk about so we have not been able to plunge into the deepest depths in any one area but this is a very useful overview of the topic.

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Tomcats with urethral obstruction are sadly a common small animal emergency population; this problem is one of the 'classics' no doubt, and with the potential to be fatal. Survival rates in the short-term can be extremely high with the right approach to stabilisation and management, medium-to-long term the prognosis can be more guarded. In a slightly roundtable fashion I am joined to discuss this topic by Dr Rosanne Jepson, Lecturer in Small Animal Internal Medicine; by Dominic Barfield, Lecturer in Emergency and Critical Care; and in absentia by Nicola Kulendra, Lecturer in Small Animal Surgery. And of course I can't help but chip in as well! In this two-part podcast series we discuss a whole host of questions surrounding this disorder including what FLUTD is, approach to the blocked cat, and recommendations following successful intervention. There is a lot to talk about so we have not been able to plunge into the deepest depths in any one area but this is a very useful overview of the topic.

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All veterinary students have to undertake extramural studies (EMS) as part of their undergraduate training. How can they go about making the most of these experiences? Many veterinary practices and other organisations offer EMS placements to students. What steps can they take to ensure that not only do students get the most from their placement but also that the practice benefits from having students seeing practice with them? What steps can both parties take to maximise the potential of the EMS experience and ensure that it is as mutually beneficial as possible? These and other things, especially clinical teaching in practice, are what we discuss in this podcast episode for which I am joined by Ruth Serlin and Jane Tomlin. Both Ruth and Jane are very involved in student teaching and development at the RVC and they explain their respective roles further in the podcast.

Anyone potentially interested in becoming an EMS provider, please see further details HERE.

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Angiostrongylosis is a horrible disease affecting dogs not just in the UK but in many other countries besides. The two most commonly reported clinical presentations are associated with spontaneous bleeding or respiratory signs due to verminous pneumonia! In this podcast we discuss this parasitic infection in some depth and I am joined once again by Karen Humm who is a Lecturer in Emergency & Critical Care (ECC) at the QMHA and a co-Director of the Transfusion Medicine service.

In the podcast Karen and I were not entirely clear about exactly what the two licensed veterinary preparations are licensed for...I am not sure I am any more clear so here are some links for you to check them out!

Milbemax

Advocate

Alongside this podcast, I have also just published a short blog piece summarising a couple of papers on A. vasorum recently published in The Veterinary Record which you can find HERE.

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PS. In the podcast Karen mentions some parasite that has a life-cycle which as you can tell she finds very exciting! She was keen I shared the link with you so here you go!

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So you've made it through vet school, landed your veterinary degree, now what? It's the start of another phase in your lifelong journey! There are many things to consider as a new grad vet starting life in practice. In this podcast we discuss issues such as choosing your first job, coping with those early days seeing cases, sources of support and advice, the PDP (UK), internships and specialisation! I am joined in this podcast by Dr Tom Cardy who graduated in 2011 and is now a resident in Neurology & Neurosurgery at the QMHA. Tom has had an interesting and unusual working life to date which gives him some extra valuable insights.

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Dogs - and cats - with chronic intermittent gastrointestinal signs are a common population in small animal practice! What's to be done? How should we approach these patients? In this podcast I discuss these questions with Dr Karin Allenspach, Associate Professor and Reader in Small Animal Internal Medicine and Head of the Clinical Investigation Centre (CIC) at the RVC. Karin has a special interest in gastroenterology and especially in canine inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) which we go on to discuss in more detail here.  

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Anyone for some blood? Or how about some plasma? Transfusion medicine is a developing field in small animal practice as access to blood products increases - at least in some countries - and no doubt this trend is set to continue. In this podcast we discuss topics such as what transfusion medicine is and what the main indications are as well as some of the practical considerations with respect to administration. We also discuss blood banks and blood donors. Oh, and the small matter of changing our terminology for canine blood types! I am joined in this podcast by Karen Humm who is a Lecturer in Emergency & Critical Care (ECC) at the QMHA and a co-Director of the Transfusion Medicine service. During the podcast Karen also gives us a brief overview of the Transfusion Medicine service at the QMHA.

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Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a common problem in cats and dogs, especially as they get older. In the first podcast on CKD we discussed topics such as the anatomy and function of the kidney, why the kidney may become dysfunctional and what the consequences are, some terminology, and causes of kidney disease. In this second part we will look at clinical aspects of CKD in terms of patient approach and management, covering topics such as suspecting and making the diagnosis, IRIS staging, treatment and prognosis. I am joined once again by Dr Rosanne Jepson who is a Lecturer in Internal Medicine at the RVC and also a member of the Renal Replacement Therapy team at the QMHA. Rosanne has a special interest in nephrology in particular.

As mentioned in the podcast, do check out the International Renal Interest Society (IRIS) website.

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Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a common problem in cats and dogs, especially as they get older. In this first of two podcasts on CKD we discuss topics such as the anatomy and function of the kidney, why the kidney may become dysfunctional and what the consequences are, some terminology, and causes of kidney disease. In the second part we will look at clinical aspects of CKD in terms of patient approach and management. I am joined for both episodes once again by Dr Rosanne Jepson who is a Lecturer in Internal Medicine at the RVC and also a member of the Renal Replacement Therapy team at the QMHA. Rosanne has a special interest in nephrology in particular.

As always, if you have any comments about this podcast, please get in touch (email sjasani@rvc.ac.uk; tweet @RoyalVetCollege using #saclinpod; or use the RVC's Facebook page).

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Everyone knows that the nurses are really in charge!!...Having already undergone some substantial changes over the last two decades or so, veterinary nursing in the United Kingdom remains in the midst of changing times as nurses continue to work for greater recognition, endorsement and accountability. This podcast features Hayley Carne BSc (Hons) RVN Grad Dip, Assistant Lecturer in Veterinary Nursing at the Royal Veterinary College.

Some of the things we discuss include how to become a veterinary nurse, potential career options, procedures and treatments registered nurses are allowed to do, and CPD requirements. We also touch on some more potentially contentious issues such as what impact the move towards greater qualification may have on attitudes towards basic patient care, and the future for individuals who have worked as veterinary nurses for some time without formal qualification.

Find out more about nursing courses offered by the RVC at the links below:

Foundation Degree in Veterinary Nursing
BSc in Veterinary Nursing
Graduate Diploma

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Portosystemic shunts (PSS) are a relatively common problem in small animals and are the subject of this next podcast in our series. The podcast features Vicky Lipscomb who is Head of the Soft Tissue Surgery service at the QMHA and has a particular interest in these troublesome vessels! Some of the things we discuss in this podcast include the different types of PSS, when to be suspicious of the problem, diagnosis and treatment options.

Find out more about CPD from the RVC featuring Vicky here.

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Over the last 18 months or so a number of dogs in the United Kingdom have been affected by a disorder which causes skin lesions initially followed within a few days by signs of acute kidney injury. Histopathology in these cases has shown cutaneous and renal glomerular vasculopathy consistent with changes seen in a condition known as Alabama Rot, described in North America but not previously reported in the UK. In this podcast we discuss the experience with this disorder in the UK thus far and illustrate what is – or more accurately – what is not known about this disorder. The podcast features Dr Rosanne Jepson who is a Lecturer in Internal Medicine at the RVC and also a member of the Renal Replacement Therapy team at the QMHA. Rosanne has a special interest in nephrology in particular.

A couple of links mentioned in the podcast include:

Forestry Commission (England) website which has a list of the reported cases including their geographical distribution

The Animal Health Trust questionnaire has now closed.

Another source of further information about the disease is Anderson Moores.

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Heart disease is relatively common in domestic cats and these patients form a significant part of the caseload for many companion animal veterinary practices. In this podcast we discuss feline cardiomyopathy in general terms touching on issues such as classification of types, screening for subclinical cardiomyopathy, the relevance of dietary taurine, arterial thromboembolism, and prognostication. This podcast features Professor Virginia Luis Fuentes of the QMHA Cardiology Service who has a special interest in feline cardiomyopathy and aortic thromboemoblism and is always involved in research and progress in these areas.

Find out more about CPD from the RVC featuring Virginia here.

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What are human factors, non-technical skills and professionalism? Human factors, non-technical skills and professionalism are concepts whose importance in clinical practice is increasingly being recognised and appreciated. So far more attention has been paid to these concepts in the field of human medicine but some discussion is now occurring in veterinary medicine too. In this podcast which features Liz Chan we discuss these concepts explaining what they mean and why they are relevant to clinical practice and/or patient safety. Liz is a specialist in Veterinary Anaesthesia and Analgesia and currently works at the RVC as a Lecturer in Veterinary Education.

Find out more about CPD from the RVC featuring Liz here.

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Healthcare-associated infection is an extremely important consideration both in veterinary and human medicine. In this podcast we discuss issues such as what terminology we should use, why we should care about HAI, and prevention and monitoring. The podcast features Dan Chan who is Head of the Emergency and Critical Care services and also a member of the Infection Control Committee at the Queen Mother Hospital for Animals.

Find out more about CPD from the RVC featuring Dan here and consider some relevant webinars here and here.

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Many, many dogs and cats undergo general anaesthesia daily around the world. It is such a common intervention that being prepared and confident is vital and knowing how to maximise safety essential. In this podcast featuring Ian Self we discuss aspects such as patient assessment, preparation, induction, maintenance and recovery. We also touch on what the published data about peri-anaesthetic mortality is for dogs and cats. Ian is Head of the QMHA Anaesthesia and Analgesia service and a Lecturer in Anaesthesia.

Find out more about CPD from the RVC featuring Ian here.

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Cruciate disease is one of the most common orthopaedic problems in dogs. In this podcast we review the anatomy and function of the cruciate ligaments and then go on to discuss the ways in which they can become diseased, how the diagnosis is made, and what the various treatment options are including surgical versus conservative management. The podcast features Richard Meeson who is a Lecturer in Orthopaedic Surgery and part of the QMHA Orthopaedic service. This podcast is a 'must listen' for anyone who sees or will go on to see dogs as clinical patients!

Find out more about CPD from the RVC featuring Richard here.

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Oncology is a relatively young speciality in small animal veterinary medicine but one that is exciting and continually evolving. In this latest podcast we discuss this area with Chiara Leo of the QMHA Small Animal Oncology service. Some of the things we talk about include what cancer is and general principles of the approach to and treatment of cancer. Chiara also offers her opinion on how pre-existing perceptions of veterinary oncology need to be rethought and to evolve as this field of veterinary medicine makes good clinical progress. Be sure to listen and remember....

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There are many potential ways in which dogs and cats can poison themselves! In this latest podcast we discuss some of the more well known 'classic' poisons such as chocolate, ethylene glycol (antifreeze) and anticoagulant rodenticides, as well as some more recently identified ones such as grapes/raisins/currants/sultanas and xylitol in dogs. We also chat about neuromuscular toxins such as metaldehyde and permethrins,. One of the key things we stress is the difference between dose-dependent and non dose-dependent (idiosyncratic) poisoning. The podcast features Dom Barfield, Lecturer in Emergency and Critical Care at the QMHA.

Find out more about CPD from the RVC featuring Dom here.

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"Every month is diabetes month in my mind!" (Stijn Niessen, 2013). Diabetes mellitus is a common and very important hormonal disease in both dogs and cats. And while not reported in dogs, it has been known for some time that cats can go into diabetic remission. In this podcast featuring Stijn Niessen, Lecturer in Internal Medicine at the QMHA, we start by discussing diabetes mellitus in general terms, including how best to classify the different types, common signs of the disease, making the diagnosis and trying to make sense of the different types of insulin preparations available. Stijn then goes on to fill us in on the motivation for and aims of the new RVC Feline Diabetic Remission Clinic (email fdrc@rvc.ac.uk).

In the podcast Stijn also mentions that vets in the United Kingdom can submit samples from cats for fructosamine measurement for free - find out more at this RVC Clinical Investigations Centre website page under 'Feline diabetes and acromegaly'.

Find out more about CPD from the RVC featuring Stijn here.

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Physiotherapy, hydrotherapy and rehabilitation therapies are gaining increasing recognition as being an important part of veterinary healthcare and these services are increasingly available. In this podcast we discuss the emergence, uses and potential benefits of these therapies with Holly Smith, Head Nurse for Neurology and Rehabilitation in the QMHA.

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A quick update on how the podcasts are going and a BIG THANK YOU to you the listeners for your interest and support!

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Urethral obstruction ('blocked cats') is a well recognised emergency problem in cats. However obstruction of one or both ureters is also increasingly recognised. In this podcast Nicola Kulendra (nee Bound) of the QMHA Soft Tissue Surgery service explains more about this condition, what the consequences are, how the diagnosis is made and treatment options available. This is a condition that may be easy to miss so be sure to listen to this podcast!

Find out more about CPD from the RVC featuring Nicola here and here

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What are the consequences of malnutrition? What is nutritional support? When is the right time to start nutritional support? Does refeeding syndrome truly exist? When should you start feeding patients after gastrointestinal surgery?

These are some of the things that we discuss in this podcast which features Dan Chan who is Head of the Emergency and Critical Care services and Clinical Nutritionist at the Queen Mother Hospital for Animals. Nutritional support of veterinary patients is an area that has received quite a lot of attention in recent times so be sure to listen to this episode!

Find out more about CPD from the RVC featuring Dan here

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Polyuria/polydipsia (PU/PD) is a common presenting complaint in small animal practice; a number of different disease states can disrupt normal physiology resulting in this problem. In this episode I discuss PU/PD with Dr Rosanne Jepson who is a Lecturer in Internal Medicine at the QMHA. Some of the things we discuss include what we mean by polyuria and polydipsia, background pathophysiology that can lead to this problem, and a rational approach to the PU/PD patient.

Find out more about CPD from the RVC featuring Rosanne here

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Limb fractures are a common injury following blunt trauma in dogs and cats and a rational approach to the management of these patients is crucial. In this episode I discuss this problem with Elvin Kulendra who is a Lecturer in Small Animal Surgery at the QMHA and spends most of his time nowadays doing orthopaedics. Some of the things we talk about include how easy it is to detect a fracture, when is the best time to manipulate a fracture, open versus closed fractures, tips on radiography and the rational use of antimicrobials.

Find out more about CPD from the RVC featuring Elvin here

If you have any comments or suggestions, please get in touch (email sjasani@rvc.ac.uk; tweet @RoyalVetCollege using #saclinpod; or use the RVC's Facebook page). Also please rate the podcasts in iTunes.

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Seizures are relatively common in cats and especially in dogs. In this inaugural podcast I discuss this presenting complaint with Dr Holger Volk who is Head of the Neurology & Neurosurgery service and Clinical Director of the Queen Mother Hospital for Animals.

Some of the things we talk about include definitions and classification of seizures, rational telephone advice, a general clinical approach and anti-convulsive medications. Oh, and "we will rock you!"

Find out more about CPD from the RVC featuring Holger here

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Shailen Jasani introduces the podcast series and explains what you can expect. The podcasts are primarily aimed at vets and nurses in first opinion/non-referral practice as well as undergraduate and postgraduate students:

Please feel free to get in touch with your questions, comments and suggestions to help us improve the podcasts going forward:

Email: sjasani@rvc.ac.uk

Post on the RVC's Facebook page

Use twitter: @RoyalVetCollege, hashtag #saclinpod

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In our virtual studio joining myself and Brian we are delighted to have Dr Sarah Tayler, one of our fabulous staff clinicians and Dr Jodie Green, one of our amazing residents both in our Small Animal Internal Medicine team here at the RVC. We talk to them both about Feline Infectious Peritonitis and the game changing new treatments available. We have only just begun using these new drugs in the UK and it is incredibly promising so far. We hope that you enjoy.

Some websites of interest

https://sockfip.org

https://bova.co.uk/resources/bova-scholars/ have webinars on FIP

https://www.rvc.ac.uk/small-animal-vet/news/successful-fip-treatment-with-remdesivir

Some papers of interest

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32441826/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30755068/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29778200/

To Cite this podcast as: Dom Barfield. RVC Clinical Podcast 131 Feline Infectious Peritonitis with Sarah Tayler and Jodie Green. Published on Feb 4 2022

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In our virtual studio joining myself and Brian we are delighted to have Dr Rhiannon Morgan, one of our fabulous lecturers in Equine Diagnostic Imaging here at the RVC. We talk to Rhiannon about pre-purchase radiographs and expand to all forms of diagnostic imaging. Some common things to look out for and when you should ask for another opinion. Rhiannon is very familiar to podcasting as she is the host of the EVJ In conversation podcast, though it is the first time for her to be the guest, and we are delighted that she joined us. We hope that you enjoy.

Information on Pre-purchase examinations

https://www.beva.org.uk/Guidance-and-Resources/PPE
https://www.rcvs.org.uk/setting-standards/advice-and-guidance/code-of-professional-conduct-for-veterinary-surgeons/supporting-guidance/equine-pre-purchase-examinations/

Some papers of interest

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34687227/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33862666/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31418917/

To Cite this podcast as: Dom Barfield. RVC Clinical Podcast 130 Pre-purchase radiographs with Rhiannon Morgan. Published on Nov 18 2021 If you have any comments about this podcast, please get in touch: email dbarfield@rvc.ac.uk; tweet @dombarfield. We would greatly appreciate your time to rate us on Apple podcast or Acast and kindly write us a review.

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129 Aspiration pneumopathy without antimicrobials  In our virtual studio joining myself and Brian we are delighted to have Simon Cook, one of our fabulous lecturers in Emergency and Critical Care here at the RVC. We talk to Simon about aspiration pneumopathy and treating without antimicrobials, mainly asking him about a recent retrospective study. Food for thought about current practice and working towards generating more information to provide guidelines to help clinical decision making in these cases. We hope that you enjoy.

Link to the paper:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34423436/

Link to keep up with veterinary literature:
https://vetlit.org/

To Cite this podcast as: Dom Barfield. RVC Clinical Podcast 129 Aspiration pneumopathy without antimicrobials with Simon Cook. Published on Oct 08 2021 If you have any comments about this podcast, please get in touch: email dbarfield@rvc.ac.uk; tweet @dombarfield. We would greatly appreciate your time to rate us on Apple podcast or Acast and kindly write us a review.

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In our virtual studio joining myself and Brian we are delighted to have Dr Nicola Menzies-Gow, Reader in Equine Medicine here at the RVC. Nicola’s main area of research interest throughout her career has been equine laminitis, and we thought that we would try to cover this vast topic in a podcast. So more of an overview considering the time! We hope that you enjoy.

Some papers and websites of interest:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30724397/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30724412/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29504630/

https://beva.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/evj.13055

https://www.rvc.ac.uk/equine-vet/information-and-advice/fact-files/laminitis 

To Cite this podcast as: Dom Barfield. RVC Clinical Podcast 128 Laminitis with Nicola Menzies-Gow. Published on Jul 02 2021 If you have any comments about this podcast, please get in touch: email dbarfield@rvc.ac.uk; tweet @dombarfield. We would greatly appreciate your time to rate us on Apple podcast or Acast and kindly write us a review.

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Joining Brian and myself in our virtual studio is Associate Professor Karen Humm one of our leads of our Emergency and Critical Care service as well as lead of or Transfusion Medicine Service here at the RVC. Karen has a keen interest in all things related to transfusion medicine and we thought that we would discuss xenotransfusions. Specifically giving dog blood to cats, this might not be something that everyone agrees with, though certainly something that could be lifesaving. We hope that you enjoy. 

Some papers of interest:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31867733/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22983454/

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1098612X211007071

To cite this podcast as: Dom Barfield. RVC Clinical Podcast 127 Xenotransfusion with Karen Humm. Published on Jun 25 2021.

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Joining Brian and myself in our virtual studio is Dr Erica Tinson one of our fabulous lecturers in Emergency and Critical Care here at the RVC. Erica has an interest in a variety of topics though we thought that we would discuss the highs and lows of sodium. We focus on the management of the extremes of both, hopefully not something you see commonly, but we hope will help when you do. We hope that you enjoy. 

Some papers of interest:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31448558/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28164834/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28017410/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10580909/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8176662/

Some equations of interest:

The Androgué-Madias formula:

Change in serum (Na+) = [infusate (Na+) – serum (Na+)] / total body water +1
Or
Change in serum (Na+) = [infusate (Na+) + infusate (K+) – serum (Na+)] / total body water +1

Free water deficit = {(current [Na+] /normal [Na+])-1} x (0.6 x body weight in kg)

Current Na+ is patients current plasma sodium concentration. Normal Na+ is the patients normal sodium concentration.

Some podcasts of interest

https://emcrit.org/emcrit/hyponatremia/
https://emcrit.org/emcrit/better-management-hyponatremia/

To cite this podcast as: Dom Barfield. RVC Clinical Podcast 126 Deranged sodium with Erica Tinson. Published on Apr 16 2021.

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Joining Brian and myself in our virtual studio is Dr Laura Cole one of our fabulous lecturers in Emergency and Critical Care here at the RVC. Laura has passion and enthusiasm for a variety of topics, and we are privileged that she joined us to share her thoughts about the development in POCUS. Ultrasound use for many reasons is being used more frequently in practice and we discuss recent techniques and descriptions. So, if you want to know about shred sign, z lines and curtains, please have a listen. We hope that you enjoy.  

Some papers of interest:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28370336/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33085212/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30216579/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33270302/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31429645/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33496045/
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fvets.2019.00291/full
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fvets.2020.616882/full

To cite this podcast as: Dom Barfield. RVC Clinical Podcast 125 Developments in POCUS with Laura Cole. Published on Apr 02 2021.

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Joining Brian and myself in our virtual studio we are delighted to have Rosie Allister, manager of the vetlife helpline. There has been a lot going on in the last year for everyone in and out of the profession and vetlife has received 25% increase in calls. We speak about vetlife, how we can support students on their transition into practice in these times of current restrictions. We also talk about bereavement and this podcast contains some discussion on suicide. We also consider our veterinary identity.  Please follow the signposts in the podcast and/or the links below. It is good to talk, but it matters how we do it.

https://bvajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/do/10.1002/vetr.00200001
https://www.vetlife.org.uk
https://www.vetmindmatters.org
https://www.befrienders.org
https://www.ava.com.au/member-services/vethealth/telephone-counselling-service/
https://www.avma.org/resources-tools/wellbeing/get-help

To cite this podcast as: Dom Barfield. RVC Clinical Podcast 124 Vetlife 2021 with Rosie Allister. Published on Mar 26 2021.

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Back in our virtual studio joining myself and Brian we are delighted to have Dr Siân Frosini Lecturer in Veterinary Clinical Microbiology here at the RVC. Siân did her undergraduate training here at the RVC and her PhD, and we are truly delighted that she has stayed on. We thought that we’d talk about bacteriology, sample submission and what do these reports with minimum inhibitory concentration actually mean. We hope that you enjoy.

Some papers and websites of interest:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23890240/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29577253/
https://ca.idexx.com/files/idexx-microbiology-mic-guide-ca-en.pdf  

To Cite this podcast as: Dom Barfield. RVC Clinical Podcast 123 Minimum Inhibitory Concentration with Siân Frosini. Published on Feb 12 2021

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Joining myself and Brian in our virtual studio we are delighted to have Professor of Small Animal Surgery Dan Brockman speak about management of GDV’s. Dan has been working at the RVC for over 20 years and has a variety of interests in soft tissue surgery. Dan could discuss many topics, though we asked him to share with you his tips for the surgical management of GDV. We hope that you enjoy.

Some papers and websites of interest:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32077192/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7591946/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29203936/
https://bvajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1136/inpract.31.2.66
https://bvajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1136/inpract.31.3.114  

 To Cite this podcast as: Dom Barfield. RVC Clinical Podcast 122 Gastric Dilatation and Volvulus with Dan Brockman. Published on Feb 05 2021

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Joining myself and Brian in our virtual studio we are delighted to have Dr Zoë Halfacree, who after many years with the soft tissue team at the RVC has moved to Davies Veterinary Specialists. We have spoken to Zoë previously on the podcast about a variety of subjects, though her passion now has centred on veterinary sustainability. We talk to Zoë about what this is, why and how we can get involved and why we should start now. We hope that you enjoy.

Some papers and websites of interest:

https://veterinary-practice.com/article/plastics-in-healthcare
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31202620/
https://vetspecialists.co.uk/sustainability/
https://www.veterinaryevidence.org/index.php/ve/article/view/251
https://vetsustain.org
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22892401/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32031491/

To Cite this podcast as: Dom Barfield. RVC Clinical Podcast 121 Veterinary Sustainability with Zoë Halfacree. Published on Nov 20 2020

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Joining myself and Brian in our virtual studio we are delighted to have Associate Professor Karla Lee, who is the head of our soft tissue surgery team here at the RVC. Karla has many interests in surgery though we thought we would catch up with her on her thoughts about minimally invasive surgery in small animals, the pros and cons and what to get started with. Is this the future for small animal surgery? We hope that you enjoy.

Some papers of interest:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28906566/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28763276/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31194657/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30444260/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27031418/

To Cite this podcast as: Dom Barfield. RVC Clinical Podcast 120 Minimally invasive surgery with Karla Lee. Published on Sep 04 2020

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Joining myself and Brian in our virtual studio we are delighted to have Dr Irina Gramer, who is the head of our oncology team and lecturer in oncology here at the RVC. We thought that we would discuss a relatively common neoplasia that we both see and current ideas on treatment and prognosis and if there is anything in the pipeline for future diagnosis and treatment. We hope that you enjoy.

Some papers of interest:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30197439/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30691610/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31251441/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31648405/

To Cite this podcast as: Dom Barfield. RVC Clinical Podcast 119 Haemangiosarcoma with Irina Gramer. Published on Aug 28 2020

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Joining myself and Brian down the end of the technology wire in our virtual studio we are delighted to have Professor of Small Animal Surgery Vicky Lipscomb, who is our Clinical Director of the RVC’s small animal university teaching hospital (the Queen Mother Hospital for Animals). Vicky spoke to Shailen back in podcast 16 (https://www.rvc.ac.uk/small-animal-referrals/news-events/clinical-podcasts/16-portosystemic-shunts) and we thought it was about time to catch up with Vicky about what we have learnt in the last 6 years on how we manage our PSS patients and what questions we are now asking. It you want to listen back to the explanation of what PSS are and the pathophysiology and how to diagnose them please listen back to podcast 16. We hope that you enjoy.

Some papers of interest:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30706530  
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30251431
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30084495
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32691934

To Cite this podcast as: Dom Barfield. RVC Clinical Podcast 118 Portosystemic shunts (6 years on) with Vicky Lipscomb. Published on Aug 21 2020

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Joining Brian and myself remotely is Dr Rebecca Geddes, Clinical Scientist Fellow in small animal medicine here at the RVC. We managed to persuade Dr Geddes to come back onto the podcast to talk about SUBs (subcutaneous ureteral bypass) in cats, something that she has recently started to look a lot into from a medical perspective. We hope that you enjoy.

Some papers of interest:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30311526/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30398425/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24174498/

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We are delighted today to have Emma Holmes joining Bri and myself at an acceptable social distance (remotely). Emma is one of our Lecturers in Clinical Pathology here at the RVC. We asked Emma to discuss aspects of biochemistry in practice and in-house. Stay safe and we hope that you enjoy.

Some papers of interest:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25297372
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25146362
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27152928

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We are delighted today to have Ross Bond joining Bri and myself remotely. Ross is Professor of Veterinary Dermatology here at the RVC. Ross joined the RVC in 1990, when the QMHA had only been open for a few years. Ross has a number of interests, particularly in microbial skin disease. We thought that we would speak to him on pyoderma. We hope that you enjoy.

Some papers of interest:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29162115/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21831997/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22731400/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25376505/ 

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Joining Brian and myself remotely we are delighted to have Rosie Allister, manager of the vetlife helpline. We had planned to catch up following her completing the London Marathon this year and speaking to our students, however she recorded a lecture for our students this year as we all come to terms with the new normal. We speak about how things have been going with vetlife and have there been any noticeable trends for callers with the current pandemic and lockdown. We also speak about her PhD, now that she can tell us more. Lots of great points and food for thought for our profession not only in these current times though beyond. We hope that you enjoy.

https://www.vetlife.org.uk

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We are delighted today to have Ashley Hartley joining Bri and myself in the studio. Ashley is a staff clinician in internal medicine here at the RVC. Although she’d really like to talk about Trypanosoma cruzi infections we thought we’d speak about gallbladder mucoceles instead.  Ashley is passionate about all things to do with internal medicine, in particular infectious diseases, and we are grateful for her coming into the studio to share her thoughts today. We hope that you enjoy.

Some papers of interest:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29205503
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31854510
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31492387
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31490022
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30079451

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Back in the New Year Bri and myself are back in the studio and are delighted to be joined by Matthew McMillan, who is a staff clinician here in Veterinary Anaesthesia and Analgesia. Matt has a passion about understanding patient safety and errors and has also co-authored a book on that (Errors in Veterinary Anaesthesia with John Ludders). We decided to have a chat about patient safety in veterinary anaesthesia. We will ask Matt to come back in when his next book is published. We hope that you enjoy.

Book:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781119259749

Some papers of interest:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25480898
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24571414
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26489997

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Joining myself in the studio is Tom Greensmith, one of our ECC lecturers here at the RVC. We thought that we’d ask him about the management of aspiration pneumonia in dogs. We hope that you enjoy. Happy New Year.

Some papers of interest:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28750782
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30211637
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24588929
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30843218 (on cats)

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For the final podcast of the year, we have managed to have a few consecutive ones, hopefully a good omen for the New Year. We are delighted to have Professor Ken Smith, Head of the Department of Pathobiology and Population Sciences here at the RVC. He is Professor of companion animal pathology and could speak about a great many things from Tasmanian devil facial tumour disease to theatre. Though we thought we’d ask Ken more about what anatomical pathologists do for us, and also how we can help them in achieving that. We hope that you enjoy and Happy New Year.    

Some articles of interest:

https://www.rvc.ac.uk/Media/Default/Pathology%20and%20Diagnostic%20Laboratories/Documents/rvc-labs-services-pricelist-2020.pdf

https://www.rcpath.org/discover-pathology/careers-in-pathology/careers-in-medicine/become-a-veterinary-pathologist.html

https://www.msdvetmanual.com/clinical-pathology-and-procedures/collection-and-submission-of-laboratory-samples/collection-and-submission-of-laboratory-samples-from-animals

http://apha.defra.gov.uk/External_OV_Instructions/Essential_Skills_for_Official_Veterinarians/Notifiable_Diseases/index.htm

http://apha.defra.gov.uk/apha-scientific/services/lab/index.htm

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It is that time of the year when many people are winding down for the holidays though often in our professional team the work not only continues though often gets busier. Joining Brian and myself in the studio we are joined by Ruth Serlin a lecturer here at the RVC in Veterinary Professionalism. We take a windy road in our discussion about looking after yourself and your team during this time. We also discuss an approach to euthanasia, pet bereavement and certain aspects of communication. There are certainly a few sensitive topics in this podcast, though something that all our veterinary teams have to manage daily. However, if you are struggling at this time of year, or any time of year please contact Vetlife, the Samaritans or other charity organisation helplines. We hope that you manage to have some down time during this holiday period and are looking forward to the New Year. Happy holidays, look after yourself and each other.

Vetlife: https://www.vetlife.org.uk Tel(UK):0303 040 2551

Samaritans: https://www.samaritans.org Tel(UK): 116 123 Tel(USA): 1 (800) 273-TALK

https://thesamaritans.org.au Tel(Aus) 135 247

http://www.samaritans.org.nz Tel(NZ) 0800 726 666

Resources in the USA: https://www.avma.org/resources/wellbeing/get-help

Some websites of interest in relation to pet bereavement:

https://www.rspca.org.uk/adviceandwelfare/pets/bereavement
https://www.bluecross.org.uk/pet-bereavement-and-pet-loss
https://www.theralphsite.com

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We are coming to the end of another year and well today other events happened in the UK. Anyway regardless of that we have been trying to get Associate Professor of Veterinary Dermatology Anette Loeffler into the studio for a while now, she was a little short of time though has promised to come back again next year. Luckily Brian was on hand to sort out the audio. We discussed what it means if you come up against MRSP – methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus pseudintermedius. Enjoy.

Some articles of interest:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4694142/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31437674
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29162115
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29981702
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27406860

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Another year has passed by and as we close on 2019 Brian and I are joined by a previous RVC graduate Dave Beeston. We find out what Dave’s been up to in the last year and he’s certainly easier to get back into the studio. He hasn’t started his own podcast yet, though he has been on other podcasts (yes, I know, I couldn’t believe it either). We’ll see if we can continue doing this for a couple more years, we certainly need to get more podcasts out in 2020. Dave will be back writing his column in the Vet Times in the new year. We hope that you enjoy. 

https://www.vettimes.co.uk/articles/david-beeston/

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Today joining Brian and myself in the studio we are delighted to have Ludovic Pelligand, Associate Professor of Veterinary Anaesthesia and Clinical Pharmacology here at the RVC. We have tried to get him in the studio for a while and delighted that he found time in his busy schedule to talk to us about his experience with treating nausea and vomiting in dogs. We will get him back on shortly! Enjoy.

Further reading:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28814338

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Today joining Brian and myself in the studio we are delighted to have Professor Dan Chan, our Head of Department here at the RVC. We could talk to him about so many things, though he has recently been involved in the Consensus on the Rational Use of Antithrombotics in Veterinary Critical Care (CURATIVE) and we thought that we’d have a chat with him about that. Enjoy.

The whole Consensus is available in a Special Issue in the Journal of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care open access here;

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14764431/2019/29/1

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Today joining Brian and myself in the studio we have Joe Fenn one of our outstanding lecturers here in neurology and neurosurgery. We are discussing the topic of meningoencephalitis of unknown origin (MUO). As Joe explains this has also been known as Meningitis of unknown aetiology, or etiology depending on what side of the pond you are and incorporates necrotising meningoencephalitis (NME) and granulomatous meningoencephalitis (GME). Joe speaks about clinical signs, diagnosis and treatment. Enjoy.

Further reading/articles of interest;

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27387733

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27165997

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30825893

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What a treat we have for you today, joined in the studio by Elsa Beltran one of our fabulous lecturers in small animal neurology and neurosurgery here at the RVC. She talks about approach to anisocoria. You can tell that she is passionate about this subject and knows it inside out. Brian kept the levels right and I kept quiet. We hope that you enjoy.  

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We’re back, thanks to the one listener who asked where we were, I would like to say on a cruise, though in reality that wasn’t the case. Anyhow we are in the studio, with Brian and joined by Aarti Kathrani one of our senior lecturers here in Internal Medicine. Aarti has a particular interest in GI diseases, so we thought that we’d ask her for her approach to manage dogs and cats with diarrhoea. Having discussed this, there are certainly more topics that we would like to ask her in the future.

Some papers of interest:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31167836

https://inpractice.bmj.com/content/28/8/480.short

https://www.wsava.org/Global-Guidelines/Gastrointestinal-Guidelines

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Joining myself in the studio we are delighted to have Mary de Las Casas, a PDP Post Graduate Dean working for the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (the UK regulatory body of the veterinary profession), talking about the PDP. A fitting time since most veterinary schools in the UK have finished their final examinations (well done) and this is the UK’s version of helping new veterinary graduates transition into their professional life and reflect on their practice. We appreciate that it is a national topic, though it does raise the question about post graduate education and where we are headed as a profession, which is applicable to all. We hope that you enjoy. 

Some pages of interest:

https://www.rcvs.org.uk/home/

https://www.rcvs.org.uk/lifelong-learning/professional-development-phase-pdp/

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Joining Brian and myself in the studio we are delighted to have Professor Holger Volk, guru of neurology and neurosurgery, though internationally renowned for his (and his teams) work on epilepsy.   Holger spoke to Shailen in the first RVC clinical podcast and being sentimental we thought we’d ask him back for our hundredth podcast. A lot has happened in the last 6 years and we thought that we’d catch up with what has changed. We hope that you enjoy.

Some pages of interest:

https://www.facebook.com/rvccanineepilepsyresearch

Some papers of interest:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30216557

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30103909

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30064067

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30001753

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29499762

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29420639

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Joining Brian and myself in the studio we are delighted to have the fabulous Matthew Pead, senior lecturer in small animal orthopaedics here at the RVC. Matthew has been in and around the RVC for over 30 years and can speak eloquently on a variety of topics from opera and fine art to educational theory. We thought we should narrow it down to Elbow dysplasia. Matthew bought in his dog, Jack, who has elbow dysplasia and we have attached a short video of Matthew performing a forelimb physical exam. It has taken us 99 podcasts to include another medium. We hope that you enjoy.

Some papers of interest:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28234985

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30703814

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22151597

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28197017

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Joining myself in the studio we are delighted to have Vicki Baldrey, one of fabulous lectures here in all things exotic at the RVC. Vicki is an avian specialist so we thought that we’d talk to her about an approach to managing a psittacine that is presented to you. We hope that you enjoy.

https://www.rvc.ac.uk/about/our-people/vicki-baldrey

some review papers:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20682428

https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/veterinary-clinics-of-north-america-exotic-animal-practice/vol/19/issue/2

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Joining Brian and myself in the studio we are delighted to have Rosie Allistair, manager of the vetlife helpline. She has come to us following completing the London Marathon the previous day and is going to talk to our final year students about vetlife, so we thought that we’d ask her to talk about it on the pod. Rosie is also near completion of her PhD at the University of Edinburgh fooling a cohort of veterinary students enter the profession. We hope that you enjoy.

https://www.vetlife.org.uk

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Joining Brian and myself in the studio we are delighted to have Dr Richard Meeson, senior lecturer in small animal orthopaedics here at the RVC. He is a fountain of knowledge although we thought we would narrow our conversation to hip dysplasia. We hope that you enjoy.

Some papers of interest:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28576269

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28460694

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28576271  

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Although we have chased him for a while (everyone has full schedules these days) we have managed to entice one of our equine colleagues to join Brian and myself in the studio, Dr Mike Hewetson. Mike is senior lecturer in equine medicine here at the RVC. We thought that we’d ask him about equine gastric ulcer syndrome, it seems he knows quite a bit about it. We hope that you enjoy.

Some papers of interest:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29653546

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28284214

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26340142

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27461724 

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Joining Brian and myself in the studio is Tom Greensmith, one of our ECC staff clinicians here at the RVC. We thought that we’d ask him about the management of diabetic ketoacidosis in dogs and cats. We hope that you enjoy.

Some papers of interest:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26551019

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28017407

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25546713

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Joining Brian and myself in the studio is Dr Rebecca Geddes, one of our lectures here at the RVC in internal medicine and part of a fantastic research group looking into renal disease in cats. We thought that we’d ask her about calcium and phosphate and what we need to do about it with our clinical patients. We hope that you enjoy.

Some papers of interest:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27527663

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23464730

http://www.iris-kidney.com/guidelines/staging.html

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Back in the studio after welcoming in the New Year, Brian and I are joined by Dr Steven De Decker, senior lecturer and head of our neurology and neurosurgery service here at the RVC. We talk to Steven about vertebral malformations in brachycephalic breeds. We hope that you enjoy and Happy New Year.

Some papers of interest:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29464823

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28283076

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30179095

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Back in the studio after our Christmas shopping Brian and I are joined by Simon Cook, one of our fabulous lecturers in Emergency and Critical Care here at the RVC. We talk to Simon about fluid therapy and what is changing.

Some papers of interest:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27914759

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27914756

In fact take a look at the whole of that issue of Vet Clinic of North America: Small Animal Practice

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In the studio and with better audio now that Brian is recording this time, we are joined a year later by a previous RVC graduate Dave Beeston. We follow up on Dave’s transition into being a professional and find out if he still cooks once a week to prepare all his meals. He continues to be involved in a variety of different things and no doubt he will have his own podcast shortly. Makes me think what have I done in the last year? Not sure that we will continue as long as Michael Apted following Dave, but we will try to get him back next year. Dave will be back writing his column in the Vet Times in the new year. We hope that you enjoy.

https://www.vettimes.co.uk/articles/david-beeston/

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