Clinical Abstracts

Equine wound management – advanced management and complications 

  In this article directed towards new graduates and those in mixed practice who see the occasional equine wound,we shall...

Aimi Duff

Ducking the issue

In a forthcoming Comment piece in Veterinary Practice Today, the author will pose the following two fundamental questions. Are veterinary...

David Watson

Changing how you cope with stress – where does resilience come from?

Stress is dependent on a combination of what level of threat we perceive in a given situation and the level...

Heatstroke – an avoidable emergency

The number of heatstroke patients brought into veterinary practices is still high and we need to question whether there is...

Changes in behaviour and health as cats age

Improvements in nutrition, veterinary medicine and general care in recent years have increased the average life expectancy of pet cats...

Vicky Halls

Age is just a number – physiological characteristics in paediatric small animals

Anaesthetic management of paediatric patients may prove challenging – the aim being to resemble homeostasis. General anaesthesia has profound effects...

Developments in treating cattle lameness – introducing EDPET and some new thoughts on toes

EDPET stands for early detection, prompt effective treatment. It is success factor number four of the AHDB Dairy Healthy Feet...

Owen Atkinson