Vet Synapse Podcast by Vet Education

Join Dr Philip Judge and Dr Sonja Olsen for the first of two episode series of Vet Synapse podcast where they talk about creating wellbeing and building resilience in the veterinary profession.

Term microenteral nutrition was developed in 1991 to define the delivery of small amounts of water, electrolytes, and readily absorbed nutrients – including glucose, amino acids, and small peptides – directly to the gastrointestinal tract. Join Dr Philip Judge for this episode of Vet Synapse podcast and learn all about microenteral nutrition in dogs and cats.

In this episode of Vet Synapse, Dr Philip Judge is joined by Dr Nicky Sluczanowski from Pet Good, as they discuss all about the buzz around insect-based pet food.

Hyponatraemia is a potentially life-threatening electrolyte disturbance, that requires the clinician not only to recognise and treat the underlying cause, but to also carefully manage the electrolyte disorder itself, to avoid causing osmotic demyelination within the central nervous system. In this short podcast, we'll work through an approach to managing the electrolyte disorder, using a series of...

In this episode of Vet Synapse, we speak with veterinarian and co-founder of Colourful CPD, Dr Brian Faulkner, about developing your "soft skills" as veterinary professionals, and how these can offer enormous help in both our professional and everyday lives!

The field of infectious diseases in small animal medicine is an enormous and challenging field, with infectious diseases being responsible for a wide range of symptoms and diseases, that frequently overlap with non-infectious conditions . A Color Handbook of Infectious Diseases of the Dog and Cat is both a welcome and valuable addition to the small animal veterinarian's library for many reasons. V...

What is Canine necrotising fasciitis? Canine necrotising fasciitis (NF) is an uncommon, deep-seated destructive infection of the skin, subcutaneous, and superficial fascia. Rarely, the process also can occur in the muscle, when it is termed necrotising myositis (NM). Both of these conditions can be associated with another syndrome called toxic shock syndrome (TSS).   Read more .

Acute liver failure is a severe, often fatal condition of the liver, characterised by severe and widespread liver injury resulting in cellular necrosis, inflammation, and associated loss of liver function. The aim of this blog is to summarise findings from two recent literature reviews on acute liver failure in dogs and cats ,  and a recent retrospective review of 49 clinical cases of acute liver...

Small Animal Fluid Therapy, Acid-Base and Electrolyte Disorders is a short text designed to highlight some of the more important aspects of fluid therapy, acid-base and electrolyte disorders, in an easy-to-read, concise format, facilitating rapid access to core information. The author, Dr Elisa Mazzaferro, is a well-respected, internationally recognised expert, and widely published author in the f...

Veterinary Nursing Care Plans: Theory and Practice  is designed to inform the reader of both the theory and practice of care planning in veterinary nursing. The author is a well-respected veterinary and human nurse – holding a degree in pharmacology, and both veterinary and human nursing qualifications.  Veterinary nursing care plans are still in their relative infancy in terms of development, whe...

Despite the large numbers of studies investigating both physiology and treatment of shock syndromes in both people and dogs, there is a relative paucity of studies on this topic in cats. Let's begin by describing shock in cats. The clinical syndrome of shock in cats has been characterized by 3 things... read more .

In this episode of Vet Synapse, Dr. Philip Judge talks about the importance of blood lactate and why its a valuable monitoring tool in small animal patients.   This podcast is brought to you by Vet Education. For more information, please visit veteducation.com.au

The physical detection of peripheral pulses, and the characterization of those pulses – as strong, moderate or weak, has long been used in triage assessment protocols in both humans and animals – with the assumption that strong pulses correlate with higher blood pressure, whereas weak pulses correlate with lower blood pressure. However, in humans, study of the association between peripheral pulse...