Veterinary Clinical Podcasts

Today joining Brian and myself in the studio we have Joe Fenn one of our outstanding lecturers here in neurology and neurosurgery. We are discussing the topic of meningoencephalitis of unknown origin (MUO). As Joe explains this has also been known as Meningitis of unknown aetiology, or etiology depending on what side of the pond you are and incorporates necrotising meningoencephalitis (NME) and gr...

What a treat we have for you today, joined in the studio by Elsa Beltran one of our fabulous lecturers in small animal neurology and neurosurgery here at the RVC. She talks about approach to anisocoria. You can tell that she is passionate about this subject and knows it inside out. Brian kept the levels right and I kept quiet. We hope that you enjoy.   If you have any comments about this podc...

We’re back, thanks to the one listener who asked where we were, I would like to say on a cruise, though in reality that wasn’t the case. Anyhow we are in the studio, with Brian and joined by Aarti Kathrani one of our senior lecturers here in Internal Medicine. Aarti has a particular interest in GI diseases, so we thought that we’d ask her for her approach to manage dogs and cats...

Joining myself in the studio we are delighted to have Mary de Las Casas, a PDP Post Graduate Dean working for the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (the UK regulatory body of the veterinary profession), talking about the PDP. A fitting time since most veterinary schools in the UK have finished their final examinations (well done) and this is the UK’s version of helping new veterinary grad...

Joining Brian and myself in the studio we are delighted to have Professor Holger Volk, guru of neurology and neurosurgery, though internationally renowned for his (and his teams) work on epilepsy.   Holger spoke to Shailen in the first RVC clinical podcast and being sentimental we thought we’d ask him back for our hundredth podcast. A lot has happened in the last 6 years and we tho...

Joining Brian and myself in the studio we are delighted to have the fabulous Matthew Pead, senior lecturer in small animal orthopaedics here at the RVC. Matthew has been in and around the RVC for over 30 years and can speak eloquently on a variety of topics from opera and fine art to educational theory. We thought we should narrow it down to Elbow dysplasia. Matthew bought in his dog, Jack, who ha...

Joining myself in the studio we are delighted to have Vicki Baldrey, one of fabulous lectures here in all things exotic at the RVC. Vicki is an avian specialist so we thought that we’d talk to her about an approach to managing a psittacine that is presented to you. We hope that you enjoy. https://www.rvc.ac.uk/about/our-people/vicki-baldrey some review papers: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pu...

Joining Brian and myself in the studio we are delighted to have Rosie Allistair, manager of the vetlife helpline. She has come to us following completing the London Marathon the previous day and is going to talk to our final year students about vetlife, so we thought that we’d ask her to talk about it on the pod. Rosie is also near completion of her PhD at the University of Edinburgh fooling...

Joining Brian and myself in the studio we are delighted to have Dr Richard Meeson, senior lecturer in small animal orthopaedics here at the RVC. He is a fountain of knowledge although we thought we would narrow our conversation to hip dysplasia. We hope that you enjoy. Some papers of interest: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28576269 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28460694 https://www.ncb...

Although we have chased him for a while (everyone has full schedules these days) we have managed to entice one of our equine colleagues to join Brian and myself in the studio, Dr Mike Hewetson. Mike is senior lecturer in equine medicine here at the RVC. We thought that we’d ask him about equine gastric ulcer syndrome, it seems he knows quite a bit about it. We hope that you enjoy. Some paper...

Joining Brian and myself in the studio is Tom Greensmith, one of our ECC staff clinicians here at the RVC. We thought that we’d ask him about the management of diabetic ketoacidosis in dogs and cats. We hope that you enjoy. Some papers of interest: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26551019 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28017407 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25546713 If you hav...

Joining Brian and myself in the studio is Dr Rebecca Geddes, one of our lectures here at the RVC in internal medicine and part of a fantastic research group looking into renal disease in cats. We thought that we’d ask her about calcium and phosphate and what we need to do about it with our clinical patients. We hope that you enjoy. Some papers of interest: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed...

Back in the studio after welcoming in the New Year, Brian and I are joined by Dr Steven De Decker, senior lecturer and head of our neurology and neurosurgery service here at the RVC. We talk to Steven about vertebral malformations in brachycephalic breeds. We hope that you enjoy and Happy New Year. Some papers of interest: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29464823 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p...

Back in the studio after our Christmas shopping Brian and I are joined by Simon Cook, one of our fabulous lecturers in Emergency and Critical Care here at the RVC. We talk to Simon about fluid therapy and what is changing. Some papers of interest: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27914759 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27914756 In fact take a look at the whole of that issue of Vet Clinic o...

In the studio and with better audio now that Brian is recording this time, we are joined a year later by a previous RVC graduate Dave Beeston. We follow up on Dave’s transition into being a professional and find out if he still cooks once a week to prepare all his meals. He continues to be involved in a variety of different things and no doubt he will have his own podcast shortly. Makes me t...

Back in the studio with Brian and we are joined by Laura Cole, one of our final year residents in Emergency and Critical Care here at the RVC. Laura worked in small animal private practice for a number of years before she completed a rotating internship with us at the RVC and stayed on to have further clinical training in ECC. She wrote an article for the Vet Times on hypoglycaemia and thought tha...

Back in the studio, joined by Simon Cook, one of our fabulous lecturers in Emergency and Critical Care here at the RVC. We talk to Simon about pericardial effusions and their management. We’ve hit 88 podcasts, 88 miles per hour allowed for time travel, not sure we are there yet. We hope that you enjoy.  Some papers of interest: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28992908 https://www.nc...

Forced out of the studio, we find ourselves in Brian’s office. We are lucky enough to have Sarah Stewart join us who is one of our staff clinicians in internal medicine and oncology here at the RVC. She did her training at the AMC in New York and has a great approach to managing cases, and one of her passions which spans both internal medicine and oncology is the approach to cats we suspect...

Today we are joined by Elsa Beltran one of our fabulous lecturers in small animal neurology and neurosurgery here at the RVC. We are in the studio, and Brian is on the whistles and faders, so hopefully the audio quality is good from the start. Today we discuss the different types of intervertebral disk extrusion/protrusion in dogs and their presentation, diagnosis, treatment and recovery. It might...

Today we are joined by Andy Phillips, one of our lecturers in small animal orthopaedics here at the RVC. We are in the studio, and Brian is on the whistles and faders from the start. We thought we would discuss canine patellar luxation, what it is and how they can be managed. Some papers of interest: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27008322 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24817090 https://...

We are back in the studio, and our second take we actually located Brian to help record. We are joined by Sarah Stewart who is one of our staff clinicians in internal medicine and oncology here at the RVC. She did her training at the AMC in New York and has a great approach to managing canine tracheal collapse as I found out on the shop floor, as it were.  We invited her into the studio so we...

This is the second part of the conversation that we had with Roser Tetas, one of our fantastic lecturers in veterinary ophthalmology here at the RVC. We talk about some common ophthalmic conditions in horses. There are some ophthalmology courses run through the RVC CPD (other course providers are available, though not sure that they would all be given a 5-star rating!) https://cpd.rvc.ac.uk/cpd-co...

In the studio, though without Brian’s help, which was needed as we had a rookie error where we lost power. Joined by Roser Tetas, one of our fabulous lecturers in veterinary ophthalmology here at the RVC. We talk about the differences and an overview of how to perform an ophthalmic exam in a horse in this pod. We started off saying it is the same, however there are a few subtleties compared...

Back in Brian’s office as the studio was busy, different microphones though luckily a fabulous guest, Nell Fitzgerald, one of our lecturers in diagnostic imaging here at the RVC.  We have a chat about the technical aspects of ultrasound and tips on how to get the best out of your machine if you are starting off, or if you are experienced but often wondered what those buttons are meant t...

Back in the studio this week with Brian controlling the levels. We are lucky to be joined by Barbara Glanemann, senior lecturer in small animal internal medicine here at the RVC. She has an interest in immune mediated diseases and we have a chat about her approach to immune mediated haemolytic anaemia. How you make a diagnosis, the other tests that one might do, treatment and how to follow their p...