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What Are Fridays Like at DoveLewis?
Views: 2,400 - Comments: 2It’s just another crazy Friday here at the DoveLewis. Our amazing anesthesia technician Kristin Spring is out sick, the ICU is filling up, and ER is rocking like only the ER can rock when there’s one receiving tech in until noon....
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Three Awesome Holiday Gifts From Clients
Views: 2,524 - Comments: 1Our hospital doors at DoveLewis are open 365 days a year, 24 hours a day. The holidays are often some of our busiest times, and require a full staff. This means that our holidays are often spent away from family, friends and the t...
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Holidays in Veterinary Hospitals
Views: 2,991 - Comments: 2You hate it before you played it I already forgave ya J. Cole (Villematic) It's holiday time at DoveLewis Emergency Animal Hospital… My belly aches at the mere thought of how much chocolate and cookies I will consume in the...
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Avian Husbandry
Views: 6,769 - Comments: 2On location at Oswego Veterinary Hospital, Deb Ward, DVM, discusses avian husbandry. Appropriate diet, potential toxins and enrichment are mentioned.
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Veterinary Professionals and Grief Resilience
Views: 3,716 - Comments: 0Last night I lost sleep over a dog I never knew when he was alive. We all have those cases where the pet was awesome or the clients were stellar or some combination of those attributes. Then when the case “ended” for the pet, you...
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Medical Math - Titratable CRI
Views: 12,073 - Comments: 11Megan Brashear, CVT, VTS(ECC), walks through the calculations necessary to create a titratable medication CRI. These calculations will allow you to create a CRI where 1ml/hr = 1mcg/kg/hr (or 1mcg/kg/min) so the dose to the patient...
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Hate Veterinary Holidays? You Don't Have To!
Views: 2,944 - Comments: 3Veterinary professionals hate the holidays. It’s true. And with good reason! Between the “Seasonal Sixteen” weight gain from all of the delicious treats our grateful clients and vendors bring us this time of year, and the generali...
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Avian Restraint and Exam
Views: 9,791 - Comments: 7On location at Oswego Veterinary Hospital, Deb Ward, DVM, and Stephanie Cooper, CVT, demonstrate and explain basic avian restraint and how to perform a physical exam.
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Cleaning Surgical Instruments
Views: 20,974 - Comments: 5It’s important to take good care of your expensive surgical instruments. In this video, Sarah Crisp demonstrates how to clean dirty surgical instruments. Initial scrubbing, ultrasonic cleaning and instrument lubrication are all di...
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Toxicities in the ER
Views: 6,781 - Comments: 0Erika Loftin, DVM, DACVECC, discusses approach, diagnosis, decontamination and treatment plans in common toxicity cases. This talk is specifically RACE-approved for one DVM or one Technician CE credit.
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Educating Pet Owners About Veterinary Medicine
Views: 2,598 - Comments: 1ABC's 20/20 recently ran a story about the "secret world" of veterinary medicine. "The majority of veterinarians are money grubbing, no-ethics witch doctors who will recommend useless tests and procedures out of the interest of...
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Clotting Tests
Views: 8,197 - Comments: 1Megan Brashear, CVT, VTS (ECC), discusses the different tests that may be performed on a bleeding patient. Physical signs of bleeding, platelet count, prothrombin time (PT) and activated partial thromboplastin time (aPTT), and...
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Avian Intramuscular Injection
Views: 9,015 - Comments: 1Nathan Bodnar, DVM, demonstrates how to administer an intramuscular injection in a bird. In this video he gives an injection of pain medication and antibiotics to a duck.
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Feelings and Veterinary Jobs
Views: 3,768 - Comments: 2Today’s blog isn’t going to run smoothly. These are just a few random thoughts on feelings and the veterinary workplace. Summary: Feelings suck. A few months ago at work a DVM started telling me all about this cute, cuddly...
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When Veterinary Medicine Gets Personal
Views: 3,070 - Comments: 1I’m standing at the treatment table, looking down at a 120 pound Bullmastiff. Her mucus membranes are pale, she is almost completely unconscious and barely breathing. Under normal circumstances, this is the kind of case that gets...
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Making Sense of Nutritional Trends
Views: 9,660 - Comments: 3As a clinician in a facility where vomiting and diarrhea top the list of presenting complaints, I find myself asking most clients “what does your pet eat?” It seems that more frequently the client will reply they are feeding some...
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Shoulder Radiographs
Views: 13,197 - Comments: 4Megan Brashear, CVT, VTS (ECC), demonstrates proper positioning and anatomical landmarks for shoulder radiographs in a dog, Alan Lipman, DVM, DACVR, then explains proper positioning and technique in the finished product.
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Hind Limb Radiographs
Views: 14,068 - Comments: 3Megan Brashear, CVT, VTS (ECC), demonstrates proper positioning and anatomical landmarks for hind limb radiographs on a dog. Restraint aids are briefly discussed.
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Scarier than Halloween: Medical Mistakes
Views: 3,380 - Comments: 6Halloween is coming up pretty soon, and it got me thinking about being scared. It happens a lot to me because I am a WIMP when it comes to scary things: When I read a scary book at night I make the dog come to the bathroom...
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Filling Prescriptions
Views: 10,517 - Comments: 5Technician Assistant (TA) Manager, Amber Solomon, explains the information necessary for prescription labeling, and demonstrates how to fill a prescription.
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Front Limb Radiographs
Views: 14,895 - Comments: 3Megan Brashear, CVT, VTS (ECC), demonstrates proper positioning and anatomical landmarks for front limb radiographs on a dog. Restraint aids are briefly discussed.
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Little Things: Tips for Better Veterinary Client Service
Views: 5,528 - Comments: 1In the peak hours of our emergency hospital (DoveLewis) the wait to see a doctor or get results for diagnostics can be long. Especially when there are multiple emergencies and urgent care visits pulling staff in every directi...
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Seizures! What Do I Do?
Views: 8,227 - Comments: 0Ladan Mohammad-Zadeh, DVM, DACVECC, talks about seizure disorders, and how to manage them in your hospital and with pet owners at home. This talk is specifically RACE-approved for one DVM or one Technician CE credit.
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The Kindness of Strangers
Views: 2,232 - Comments: 1It’s been well-documented, but I’ll say it again: I’m an introvert. While capable of talking to strangers, it wears me out. I also hate talking on the phone. I have a love/fear relationship with my phone. Texting has opened an ent...
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Pelvic Radiographs
Views: 14,682 - Comments: 0Megan Brashear, CVT, VTS (ECC), demonstrates proper positioning and anatomical landmarks for pelvis radiographs in a dog. Alan Lipman, DVM, DACVR, explains proper positioning and technique.
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The Little Things Matter. Be Proud of Your Work!
Views: 1,877 - Comments: 6Every little thing we do's like magic Anything we do will not go wrong Every little thing we do's like magic Everywhere we go we're rockin' on Black Eyed Peas (Magic) When I read the topic suggestion for this month’s at...
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Abdominal Radiographs
Views: 20,146 - Comments: 9Megan Brashear, CVT, VTS(ECC), demonstrates proper positioning and anatomical landmarks for abdominal radiographs in a dog. Staff radiologist Alan Lipman explains proper positioning and technique.
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Why Good Client/Customer Service Matters
Views: 3,146 - Comments: 8I’m coming off of a rough travel weekend doing some veterinary lectures in NYC. The roughness of the experience had nothing to do with why I was traveling, the weather, the traffic, the cab drivers, accidentally sleeping through m...
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Feline Vaccines
Views: 12,646 - Comments: 0Becky Smith, CVT, VTS (Clinical Practice), from Rose City Veterinary Hospital explains the AAHA/AAFP recommendations for core and non-core vaccines in cats. Initial kitten vaccines and the adult booster schedule are discussed.
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Administering Activated Charcoal
Views: 10,437 - Comments: 6Megan Brashear, CVT, VTS(ECC), gives tips for administering activated charcoal to a toxin ingestion patient.
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Interview with VMD Technology
Views: 1,925 - Comments: 0I recently had the pleasure of answering some interview questions for Dr. Caleb Frankel of VMD Technology about my career and how atdove.org came to be. Here are a few of those questions, and a link to the full article!How di...
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Don’t Fear the Reefer - Marijuana Toxicity
Views: 25,197 - Comments: 2Dietary indiscretion and resulting toxicities are some of the most common emergencies in veterinary medicine. Each class, and potentially each individual toxin, may present as a distinct set of clinical signs. Marijuana is one of...
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Wound Clip and Clean
Views: 13,845 - Comments: 9Megan Brashear, CVT, VTS(ECC), discusses proper technique for how to clip, clean, and flush minor wounds sustained by a dog after a dog fight. Wound irrigation solutions are briefly discussed.
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Challenging Urethral Obstructions
Views: 4,732 - Comments: 0Coby Richter, DVM, DACVS, gives a case-based presentation that covers ruptured urethras, ruptured bladders, stones that won’t budge and stones you know are there but cannot find. This talk is specifically RACE-approved fo...
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Crystalloids and Colloids
Views: 11,546 - Comments: 2Megan Brashear, CVT, VTS (ECC), gives a brief overview of the difference between crystalloid and colloid fluids. Examples of each type of fluid are given, and reasons why each may be administered to a patient are discussed.
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I Can Help! Veterinary Training and Planning
Views: 3,207 - Comments: 2As veterinary managers go, I'm a PLANNER. While flying by the seat of my pants and treating unpredictable emergencies in the DoveLewis ER is fun, in every other area I need a PLAN. I like to set my expectations based on what I thi...
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Appointment Flow
Views: 10,266 - Comments: 6Brittany Carey and Henry Struzik, on location at Pearl Animal Hospital, describe the flow of appointments and delineation of duties. From obtaining a weight to basic history and vitals, defining these duties allows them to wo...
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Client Communications and Triage
Views: 13,064 - Comments: 5Megan Brashear, CVT, VTS(ECC), explains the importance of gaining owner trust during the triage process. By remembering to communicate with the client, technician value can be established and owner comfort increased while they wai...
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Anticoagulant Rodenticide Toxicity
Views: 5,383 - Comments: 1Megan Brashear, CVT, VTS(ECC), discusses a case of anticoagulant rodenticide toxicity seen in the ER. The emergency treatment before starting the dog on vitamin K therapy (the mainstay for this toxicity) is the focus of this discu...
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Marijuana Toxicity
Views: 6,534 - Comments: 1Megan Brashear, CVT, VTS (ECC), discusses the common clinical signs seen in Marijuana (THC) toxicity, and the common emergency treatments. This video highlights the ataxia and hyperesthesia often noted in these cases.
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Gross ER Veterinary Stuff
Views: 5,144 - Comments: 16IVECCS is coming. It’s NEXT WEEK. It’s my favorite conference of the year, even when it’s in San Antonio (river walk again?). Because it’s 4 days of emergency nerds trying to one up each other with our stories. Stories of how many...
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Bugs, Wounds, and You
Views: 5,490 - Comments: 0Kristin Spring, CVT, VTS(ECC, Anes.), CVPP, spends this hour discussing different wound management and the role hospital staff plays in keeping these wounds clean and protected. This talk is specifically RACE-approved for one T...
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Canine Vaccines
Views: 12,231 - Comments: 4Becky Smith, CVT, VTS (Clinical Practice), from Rose City Veterinary Hospital explains the AAHA recommendations for core and non-core vaccines in dogs. Initial puppy vaccines and the adult booster schedule is discussed.
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Veterinary Superstition
Views: 4,673 - Comments: 5I don’t feel like a particularly superstitious person. Cracks in the sidewalk get stepped on, black cats walk around me all the time, and I don’t generally notice that any given Friday was the 13th day of a month until a couple of...
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Medical Math – Metoclopramide CRI
Views: 12,388 - Comments: 10Megan Brashear, CVT, VTS (ECC), walks you through how to calculate a metoclopramide CRI for any sized patient when adding the drug to their already running IV fluids. This calculation is used for adding any drug to fluids that are...
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DOCTOR TO TREATMENT!
Views: 2,933 - Comments: 7DOCTOR TO TREATMENT! That’s the phrase we hear over the pager several times a day at my hospital and it always gives my adrenals a good squeeze. It means that an emergency has come through the door that needs immediate at...
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New Guest Blogger
Views: 2,216 - Comments: 3I met Liz Hughston online almost two years ago and we had an instant connection. No, this is not an online dating story; this is a story of how atdove.org brought DoveLewis and Adobe Animal Hospital together. So sure, online...
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Heartworm Testing
Views: 10,863 - Comments: 6On location at Rose City Veterinary Hospital, Becky Smith CVT, VTS (Clinical Practice), discusses heartworm preventive medications in both cats and dogs, and also talks about the reasoning and importance of testing pets for heartw...
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Vaginal Cytology - Canine
Views: 8,514 - Comments: 0Megan Brashear, CVT, VTS (ECC), demonstrates how to obtain a vaginal cytology on a dog.
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Administering Vaccines - Feline
Views: 9,638 - Comments: 4Becky Smith, CVT, VTS (Clinical Practice), on location at Rose City Veterinary Hospital, explains the proper locations for, and administers vaccines to a cat.
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