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Gastric Stasis in Rabbits

Gastric stasis is one of the most common medical problems seen with small herbivores. Like many other common medical issues, it’s not a single issue, but a set of clinical signs that can have a variety of underlying problems. Think of stasis in the same way as thinking of colic in a horse or like

Ethos Exchange: Generational Similarities in a Multigenerational Veterinary Field

Over the next several years, the workplace will include 5 different generations at once. This means it’s important for veterinary practice managers and supervisors to understand how to work with big age differences!

Hospital Hierarchy of Needs: Veterinary Medicine Edition

Our new blog series to help other veterinary practices learn new tools and better ways to manage their hospitals and teams.

Avian Respiratory System: Anatomy and Physiology

I hope that you find this fun to read. If it’s as fun for me to write and for you to read, then I plan to make this a periodic format for the website, so please send feedback to let me know if you are interested. Let’s start the first episode with a doozy: the

Delayed Zinc Toxicosis in a Starved Dog

The below case illustrates a rapid onset of critical illness in a severely malnourished stray dog. After initial support turned this too-weak-to-walk stray into a bouncing puppy and he regained his appetite, he rapidly deteriorated in our ICU due to zinc toxicity from pennies that presumptively had been in his empty stomach for some time.

Interventional Analgesia Part II

As veterinary pain management becomes more like human pain management in offering patients a broader range of strategies for the treatment of acute and chronic pain, the interventional strategies and the techniques described below will become more commonplace.

Interventional Analgesia: Part I

Interventional pain management in animals is an application of image-guided procedures which benefit veterinary patients with both acute and chronic pain.

Urinary Obstruction & Prazosin for Cats

Urinary obstruction in the cat is a very common presentation for male cats with urinary signs (straining, vomiting, licking, vocalizing). Listed is a general protocol for managing these cases.

Chronic Nasal Discharge in Rabbits: Not Just an Antibiotic Issue

Veterinarians routinely working on rabbits will encounter a rabbit with chronic nasal congestion. There are numerous references to chronic Pasteurella infection leading to intermittent antibiotic use to control the infection. However, a good look at these cases reveals that this is not usually the case, and the causes for chronic nasal congestion are as diverse in rabbits as they are in most other species.

Symptoms of Albuterol Toxicity in Dogs

Lily, a 5-year old spayed female (SF) English Shepherd presented to our emergency room at 9am on a Wednesday morning in early spring after being found unable to rise from her crate. The owners immediately rushed her to the hospital and she was gurneyed to the ICU for evaluation.

Level 1 Emergency and Critical Care Facility and Provisional Trauma Center

WVRC - Waukesha is a recognized American College of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care provisional trauma center. Our Criticalists and emergency clinicians are prepared to expertly manage all types of traumatic injuries in our state-of-the-art facilities. Our Criticalists lead our trauma center team and provide valuable oversight and direct management of all of our trauma patients.

Grain Free Diets and Dilated Cardiomyopathy

You may have heard of recent dilated cardiomyopathy cases in dogs who were eating grain free diets. Read what our Nutritionist and Cardiologist at Mass Vet have to say: