Clinical Abstracts

Boost recruitment success by focusing on the RVN team

A recent study by Sophie Curtis of Nottingham Trent University has suggested that it is the nature of the practice team...

To err is human … managing mistakes 

No matter how hard we try not to we all make mistakes. On the whole, most mistakes are not serious...

Maggie Shilcock

How significant is that murmur? 

As an equine practitioner, it is not uncommon to come across cardiac anomalies during routine clinical examination, assessment of systemically...

Aimi Duff

Mastitis management 

The BCVA antimicrobial resistance statement of December 2016 stated the need to reduce the overall amount of antibiotics used in...

Andrew Stokes

Emerging pig diseases 

Pig prices at the moment are significantly better than at this time last year and this is reflected in the...

Max Wood

Nursing the pregnant mare 

Registered veterinary nurses (RVNs) are sometimes required to monitor a foaling at the practice – for example, if a mare...

Marie Rippingale

Advising clients on how to deal with behavioural problems in the elderly cat 

Owners often attribute behavioural changes in their ageing cats as just being “down to old age”; yet by doing so...

Vicky Halls