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Heartworm Treatment and Melarsomine Injection
Views: 5,074 - Comments: 3We know how important it is to remind owners to keep their pets on year round heartworm prevention, but what happens when a pet actually has heartworms? Veterinary Cardiologist Caryn Reynolds, DVM, DACVIM, reviews the treatment pr...
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Hemolyzed Blood and Hematuria
Views: 5,986 - Comments: 2Do you know what your patients’ blood is telling you? Learn from Megan Brashear, CVT, VTS (ECC), about identifying hemolyzed blood samples.
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Coping with Grief and Loss
Views: 2,908 - Comments: 1How does grief differ when a pet is lost due to old age versus a sudden tragedy? Enid Traisman, MSW, CT, and Director of the DoveLewis Pet Loss Support Program, reviews how clients may feel and react after losing a pet in each cir...
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Ask the Right Questions
Views: 13,935 - Comments: 6We’ve all had the thought after working with a client-- why didn’t you mention this earlier? Why am I just hearing about this now? This would have been nice to know an hour ago… While it may be easy to blame the client, it’s im...
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Working Well Under Pressure
Views: 8,639 - Comments: 1Pressure and stress are factors that play a role in our jobs, everyday. Join Sarah Parker, CMA (AAMA), from the Medical Society of Metropolitan Portland, to learn about ways to manage pressure in any position at your hospital....
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Communication in Crisis: What Clients Go Through in an Emergency
Views: 10,328 - Comments: 4Pet emergencies occur every minute of every day – but for our clients it is a singular monumental event. Pets are, in fact, family. They are family that like to eat socks, brawl in the street, enjoy an occasional pot brownie (doub...
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Barriers to Effective Communication
Views: 7,797 - Comments: 0We may think that our communication style is crystal clear, but is it? Learn from Sarah Parker, CMA (AAMA), from the Medical Society of Metropolitan Portland, about how we can minimize the barriers that happen in everyday communic...
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Preparing for a Snake Physical Exam
Views: 3,923 - Comments: 0Snakes can be easily stressed, and are sensitive to oils on our skin such as lotions and perfumes. Learn from Senior Technician Supervisor Sarah Harris, CVT, VTS (ECC) about how to safely prepare for a snake exam in your hospital.
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Cleaning an Isolation Exam Room
Views: 7,280 - Comments: 6An isolation exam room needs to be treated with extra care to ensure that containments are not spread between patients. Learn from Megan Urton, Technician Assistant Manager, about how to safely clean an isolation exam room.
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Assembling a Simple Major Pack
Views: 5,112 - Comments: 5Getting instruments cleaned, sterilized, and organized is crucial in any veterinary hospital. Learn from Bobbie Lucas, Surgery Technician Assistant, about the correct way to assemble a simple major pack. Download Surgical Pack...
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Why We Stay Open
Views: 2,690 - Comments: 0We learned recently that some local emergency hospitals are sending their patients to DoveLewis in an attempt to manage their own caseloads. We get it—when you combine factors like a national hiring shortage and our pet-friendly c...
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Glo Germ: A Staff Training Tool
Views: 4,548 - Comments: 3Here at DoveLewis, we take all things cleaning very seriously. It’s important that every staff member is up to date on our latest cleaning protocols. While it can be time consuming to spend time with each staff member reviewing ho...
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Cidex Sterilization
Views: 3,269 - Comments: 0Technician Assistant, Katy Collins, reviews how to use safely use Cidex disinfectant products for sterilizing hospital equipment. Note – Cidex should only be used after equipment has gone through standard cleaning process. Cide...
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Passive Range of Motion
Views: 3,925 - Comments: 0Passive range of motion (or PROM) is an important step to include in the treatment of ICU patients. Learn from CVT, Emily Dascalos, and staff dog, Ollie, who is recovering from a hemilaminectomy, about the different positions you...
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Celebrating the Holidays Without Your Animal Companion
Views: 2,254 - Comments: 1As the holidays are approaching, Enid Traisman, MSW, CT, and Director of the DoveLewis Pet Loss Support Program, reviews ways that you can honor your pet during the holiday season. These tips can also be shared with clients who ma...
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Non-Rebreather Circuit Set Up
Views: 8,267 - Comments: 3Senior Technician Supervisor and CVT, Sarah Harris, goes through an in depth review and demonstration of setting up a non-rebreather circuit.
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The Post-Conference Zoomies
Views: 1,828 - Comments: 0Zoomies: when your dog runs around the house like crazy- jumping on the couch, running up or down the stairs, and all over the house. It usually ends with them falling to the floor, panting like crazy and taking a nap. – Urb...
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Rat Tail Vein Blood Draw
Views: 4,963 - Comments: 0Emily Chryst, CVT, walks through the steps for sampling blood from a rodent tail.
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Workplace Bullying
Views: 4,776 - Comments: 0Bullying between staff members can be hard to identify. Learn from Cheryl Latta, DoveLewis Human Resources Manager, about how to recognize bullying behaviors and prevent it from happening.
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Staff Transition to Management: Part II
Views: 2,520 - Comments: 0Continuing from Staff Transition to Management: Part I, Cheryl Latta, DoveLewis Human Resources Manager, reviews common difficulties that new managers face and tips for making the most of your new promotion. Making th...
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Staff Transition to Management: Part I
Views: 3,128 - Comments: 0Cheryl Latta, DoveLewis Human Resources Manager, talks about the difficulties that can come with a promotion to management, and tips for handling new responsibilities.
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Long Term Ventilation
Views: 3,823 - Comments: 5Megan Brashear, VTS (ECC), talks about the in-depth nursing care required for veterinary patients on long-term ventilation in the ICU including recumbent patient care, oral care, and endotracheal tube care.
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Applying Ocular Medication - Canine
Views: 7,949 - Comments: 5Megan Brashear, CVT, VTS (ECC) walks through the steps of applying ocular medication to a dog. Review how to restrain, and the abbreviations used in prescription instructions.
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When Good Organs Go Bad – Pancreatitis
Views: 8,719 - Comments: 1The pancreas lives in the cranial abdomen close to the stomach and duodenum. With a right and left limb, this organ plays both endocrine and exocrine roles and is vital to nutritional function. The pancreas secretes glucagon and i...
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Direct Arterial Pressure Monitoring
Views: 6,314 - Comments: 4Kristin Spring, CVT, VTS (Anest), explains the calibration, use, and care of a direct arterial blood pressure system. Download Instructions
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Communicating Discharge Instructions with Clients
Views: 8,851 - Comments: 5Senior Technician Supervisor and CVT, Sarah Harris, joins Training Specialist and CVT, Jessica Waters, to review the process for communicating effective discharge instructions with clients. Using the example of a gastroenteritis p...
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Is My Rat Choking?
Views: 4,701 - Comments: 0This morning I had quite the scare! One of my rats did not come to greet me, and I found her lying toward the back of her cage. I picked her up and could see something was wrong. I put her down to observe her, and f...
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Vitamin D3 Toxicity: Rare but Noteworthy
Views: 10,983 - Comments: 1Cholecalciferol is an uncommon cause of toxicity in the dog and cat, however after seeing several cases recently, I thought that it warranted a review. Thankfully, these cases were seen shortly after ingestion and all did well wit...
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Flash Sterilization
Views: 4,422 - Comments: 0Flash sterilization is a quick way to get the tools you need into surgery. Learn from surgery technician assistant, Ashley Palmer, about how to safely run a flash sterilization cycle. Download Flash Sterilization Guide
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Thank You, and Good Job
Views: 3,462 - Comments: 1Being a veterinarian is exhausting, isn't it? We need to care about so many things! I need to care about that blocked cat whose owners can't afford treatment. I need to care about that dog with pulmonary metastasis whose owners...
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Tube Feeding Puppies
Views: 5,143 - Comments: 4Jessica Waters, CVT and Alicia Crabtree, TA discuss the process of tube feeding a puppy for effective nutrition management.
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Preparing for Exotic Patients
Views: 3,505 - Comments: 0A chicken, a rabbit and a skunk walk into DoveLewis… It sounds like the start of an awful joke, right? Actually, all three of those animals were recently hospitalized in our ICU. Almost daily you can see multiple sp...
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Workplace Grief - Making a Memorial Table
Views: 3,148 - Comments: 0March is Wellness Month at DoveLewis! Join Enid Traisman, Pet Loss Support Director, and Chelsea Lincoln, Special Accounts Coordinator, to learn about creating memorial tables to support your colleagues. Download Supplies List...
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Feline Jugular Venipuncture
Views: 13,223 - Comments: 4Sarah Harris, CVT, demonstrates how to collect a blood sample from the jugular vein of a feline patient.
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New Kids on The Block
Views: 4,846 - Comments: 17Even for experienced staff, working at a veterinary ER can be hectic, heartbreaking, and overwhelming. For brand new employees, adapting to the pace can be rough. Unfortunately, I’ve seen new hires get overwhelmed by t...
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Veterinary Interview Prep
Views: 3,297 - Comments: 2Whether you are applying for a position in a new city, or promotion at your current hospital, there are a few tips you should keep in mind. Cheryl Latta, DoveLewis Human Resources Manager, discusses how to make the best impression...
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Hydration Assessment
Views: 8,029 - Comments: 0Christy Michael, BVMS, reviews different techniques for completing a hydration assessment.
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Who’s Hungry? Getting Nutrition into Our Patients
Views: 6,434 - Comments: 0Nutrition in hospitalized patients is often overlooked in the early hours of illness. With blood work to run and radiographs to take, diarrhea to clean up and blood pressures to measure we forget that our patient has not eaten in...
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Moving an Anesthetized Patient
Views: 8,709 - Comments: 0James Reid, CVT, demonstrates how to safely move an anesthetized patient from surgery prep into the surgery suite.
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The Other End of the Leash
Views: 3,441 - Comments: 15Talk to anyone in vet med about why they are in the field, and you are likely to get a response laced with misanthropy. Bring up the possibility of human medicine with a vet tech, and elicit a squirm of distaste or a gag resp...
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Blood Pressure in Anesthesia
Views: 12,650 - Comments: 6Megan Brashear, CVT, VTS (ECC), discusses the normal values for blood pressures, anesthetic complications, and to how to manage them.
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Anal Gland Expression
Views: 11,198 - Comments: 6Kara Erdman, CVT, demonstrates how to perform anal gland expression on a dog.
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Dog Bone Danger
Views: 3,557 - Comments: 1Earlier this year, the FDA concluded a report about the dangers of dog bone treats. Coby Richter, DVM, DACVS, blogs about an example of why dog bones can cause fatal complications. Every time I walk by the bulk bins in cert...
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Central Venous Catheters
Views: 6,849 - Comments: 1Liz Hughston, RVT, VTS (SAIM), discusses the setup, use, and care of central venous catheters.
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Antibiotic Awareness
Views: 4,826 - Comments: 0In honor of Antibiotic Awareness Week, Carrie Daly, DVM, discusses the importance of judicious antibiotic use and how to prevent antibiotic resistance in your hospital.
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Dorsal Pedal Blood Draw
Views: 8,786 - Comments: 0Sarah Harris, CVT, demonstrates step-by-step instructions for utilizing the dorsal pedal vein.
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How to Address Mental Health Concerns
Views: 5,779 - Comments: 0Chief Human Resources Officer, Monica Maxwell, and HR Generalist, Cheryl Latta, address culture issues and signs managers should look out for when it comes to burn out and depression.
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Let’s Talk About Suicide Awareness
Views: 4,289 - Comments: 0Live Again co-founder, Eric Snyder, comes to DoveLewis to talk with HR Generalist, Cheryl Latta, about suicide awareness and prevention. Resources mentioned in this video: National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273- TALK...
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Disaster Relief in the Veterinary Community
Views: 3,071 - Comments: 1Natural disasters impact thousands of pets and veterinary hospitals each year. Christy Michael, BVMS, discusses ways to help your local and national veterinary community. Dr. Michael also recommends relief and recovery teams speci...
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Debarking Debate
Views: 4,620 - Comments: 6Ventriculocordectomy to de-vocalize dogs should be a procedure abandoned and lost to history. So…are we really still having a debate about the legitimacy of de-barking procedures? Sarcasm is not my usual state of being so the incr...
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