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Joining Brian and myself in our virtual studio we are delighted to have Dr Emily Hall, one of our lecturers in Veterinary Education here at the RVC. Emily has been working with the VetCompass group looking at Heat Related Illness in the UK and we thought we'd talk to her to about her research in this field and the questions that left unanswered.  We hope that you enjoy. Emily has her own blog on this topic too, where you can find links to the papers. http://heatstroke.dog/ There is even an infographic: https://www.rvc.ac.uk/Media/Default/VetCompass/210324%20EH%20Heat%20Stroke%20infographic.pdfAnd Congress abstract recordings to watch:  https://www.rvc.ac.uk/vetcompass/audio-visual-resources/conference-presentations Some references of interest: Hall, Hall, E. J., Carter, A. J., & O’Neill, D. G. (2020). Incidence and risk factors for heat related illness (heatstroke) in UK dogs under primary veterinary care in 2016. Scientific Reports, 10(1), 9128. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-66015-8Hall, E. J., Carter, A. J., & O’Neill, D. G. (2020). Dogs Don’t Die Just in Hot Cars—Exertional Heat-Related Illness (Heatstroke) Is a Greater Threat to UK Dogs. Animals, 10(8), 1324. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani10081324Hall, E. J., Carter, A. J., Bradbury, J., Barfield, D., & O’Neill, D. G. (2021). Proposing the VetCompass clinical grading tool for heat-related illness in dogs. Scientific Reports, 11(1), 6828. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-86235-wE. J., Carter, A. J., Chico, G., Bradbury, J., Gentle, L. K., Barfield, D., & O’Neill, D. G. (2022). Risk Factors for Severe and Fatal Heat-Related Illness in UK Dogs—A VetCompass Study. Veterinary Sciences, 9(5), 231. https://doi.org/10.3390/vetsci9050231Carter, A. J., & Hall, E. J. (2018). Investigating factors affecting the body temperature of dogs competing in cross country (canicross) races in the UK. Journal of Thermal Biology, 72, 33–38. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtherbio.2017.12.006 To Cite this podcast as: Dom Barfield. RVC Clinical Podcast 136 Heat Related Illness with Emily Hall. Published on November 18 2022 If you have any comments about this podcast, please get in touch: email dbarfield@rvc.ac.uk; tweet @dombarfield. We would greatly appreciate your time to rate us on Apple podcast, podbean or Acast and kindly write us a review.  

Joining Brian and myself in our virtual studio we are delighted to have Dr Rosanne Jepson, Associate Professor in Internal Medicine here at the RVC. Rosanne has many research and clinical interests, though she has been steering our antimicrobial stewardship in our hospital for many years. It is World Antimicrobial Awareness week 18-24 November. We talk about what we are doing and asking our clients and hopefully give you some ideas on what you can do and how you and your teams can participate in this One Health initiative.  We hope that you enjoy.   WHO https://www.who.int/campaigns/world-antimicrobial-awareness-week/2022  RCVS Knowledge https://knowledge.rcvs.org.uk/amr/antibiotic-amnesty/Which has the RUMA (Responsible Use of Medicines Alliance) questionnaire link for clients.   Some papers of interest:https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33405979/https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25721619/  To Cite this podcast as: Dom Barfield. RVC Clinical Podcast 135 Antimicrobial Awareness Week with Rosanne Jepson. Published on November 11 2022  If you have any comments about this podcast, please get in touch: email dbarfield@rvc.ac.uk; tweet @dombarfield. We would greatly appreciate your time to rate us on Apple podcast, podbean or Acast and kindly write us a review.

Joining Brian and myself in our virtual studio we are delighted to have Dr Sara Lawrence-Mills, one of our fabulous residents in Anaesthesia and Analgesia here at the RVC. Sara has taken an interest into the endothelial glycocalyx and we thought we'd talk to her to find out why.  We hope that you enjoy.   Some references of interest: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35654338/https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fvets.2021.661660/fullhttps://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22290457/https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32067360/  To Cite this podcast as: Dom Barfield. RVC Clinical Podcast 134 Endothelial glycocalyx with Sara Lawrence-Mills. Published on September 30 2022 If you have any comments about this podcast, please get in touch: email dbarfield@rvc.ac.uk; tweet @dombarfield. We would greatly appreciate your time to rate us on Apple podcast, podbean or Acast and kindly write us a review.

Joining Brian and myself in our virtual studio (although again I crept into the studio) we are delighted to have Dr Jack Lawson, one of our fabulous lecturers in Internal Medicine here at the RVC. We talk to him about canine mast cell tumours. Current recommendations and what is new. We hope that you enjoy. The review paper we discuss, further references are in the article:https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34428941/  To Cite this podcast as: Dom Barfield. RVC Clinical Podcast 133 Chronic kidney disease and hypertension in cats with Jack Lawson. Published on May 13 2022 If you have any comments about this podcast, please get in touch: email dbarfield@rvc.ac.uk; tweet @dombarfield. We would greatly appreciate your time to rate us on Apple podcast, podbean or Acast and kindly write us a review. 

Joining Brian and myself in our virtual studio (although I was actually in the studio by myself) we are delighted to have Dr Andy Yale, one of our fabulous lecturers in Oncology (congratulations too on passing your board examinations this year and he is now an EBVS® European Veterinary Specialist in Small Animal Oncology). We talk to him about canine mast cell tumours. Current recommendations and what is new. We hope that you enjoy.  Some papers of interest (there are lots more) https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32542733/https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34977208/https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34513966/https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34671978/https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33724647/https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34513966/https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33222871/ To Cite this podcast as: Dom Barfield. RVC Clinical Podcast 132 Canine Cutaneous Mast Cell Tumour with Andy Yale. Published on May 6 2022 If you have any comments about this podcast, please get in touch: email dbarfield@rvc.ac.uk; tweet @dombarfield. We would greatly appreciate your time to rate us on Apple podcast or Acast and kindly write us a review.

In our virtual studio joining myself and Brian we are delighted to have Dr Sarah Tayler, one of our fabulous staff clinicians and Dr Jodie Green, one of our amazing residents both in our Small Animal Internal Medicine team here at the RVC. We talk to them both about Feline Infectious Peritonitis and the game changing new treatments available. We have only just begun using these new drugs in the UK and it is incredibly promising so far. We hope that you enjoy. Some websites of interest https://sockfip.org https://bova.co.uk/resources/bova-scholars/ have webinars on FIP https://www.rvc.ac.uk/small-animal-vet/news/successful-fip-treatment-with-remdesivir Some papers of interest https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32441826/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30755068/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29778200/ To Cite this podcast as: Dom Barfield. RVC Clinical Podcast 131 Feline Infectious Peritonitis with Sarah Tayler and Jodie Green. Published on Feb 4 2022 If you have any comments about this podcast, please get in touch: email dbarfield@rvc.ac.uk; tweet @dombarfield. We would greatly appreciate your time to rate us on Apple podcast or Acast and kindly write us a review.

In our virtual studio joining myself and Brian we are delighted to have Dr Rhiannon Morgan, one of our fabulous lecturers in Equine Diagnostic Imaging here at the RVC. We talk to Rhiannon about pre-purchase radiographs and expand to all forms of diagnostic imaging. Some common things to look out for and when you should ask for another opinion. Rhiannon is very familiar to podcasting as she is the host of the EVJ In conversation podcast, though it is the first time for her to be the guest, and we are delighted that she joined us. We hope that you enjoy. Information on Pre-purchase examinations https://www.beva.org.uk/Guidance-and-Resources/PPEhttps://www.rcvs.org.uk/setting-standards/advice-and-guidance/code-of-professional-conduct-for-veterinary-surgeons/supporting-guidance/equine-pre-purchase-examinations/ Some papers of interest https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34687227/https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33862666/https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31418917/ To Cite this podcast as: Dom Barfield. RVC Clinical Podcast 130 Pre-purchase radiographs with Rhiannon Morgan. Published on Nov 18 2021 If you have any comments about this podcast, please get in touch: email dbarfield@rvc.ac.uk; tweet @dombarfield. We would greatly appreciate your time to rate us on Apple podcast or Acast and kindly write us a review.

129 Aspiration pneumopathy without antimicrobials  In our virtual studio joining myself and Brian we are delighted to have Simon Cook, one of our fabulous lecturers in Emergency and Critical Care here at the RVC. We talk to Simon about aspiration pneumopathy and treating without antimicrobials, mainly asking him about a recent retrospective study. Food for thought about current practice and working towards generating more information to provide guidelines to help clinical decision making in these cases. We hope that you enjoy. Link to the paper:https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34423436/ Link to keep up with veterinary literature:https://vetlit.org/ To Cite this podcast as: Dom Barfield. RVC Clinical Podcast 129 Aspiration pneumopathy without antimicrobials with Simon Cook. Published on Oct 08 2021 If you have any comments about this podcast, please get in touch: email dbarfield@rvc.ac.uk; tweet @dombarfield. We would greatly appreciate your time to rate us on Apple podcast or Acast and kindly write us a review.

In our virtual studio joining myself and Brian we are delighted to have Dr Nicola Menzies-Gow, Reader in Equine Medicine here at the RVC. Nicola’s main area of research interest throughout her career has been equine laminitis, and we thought that we would try to cover this vast topic in a podcast. So more of an overview considering the time! We hope that you enjoy. Some papers and websites of interest: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30724397/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30724412/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29504630/ https://beva.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/evj.13055 https://www.rvc.ac.uk/equine-vet/information-and-advice/fact-files/laminitis  To Cite this podcast as: Dom Barfield. RVC Clinical Podcast 128 Laminitis with Nicola Menzies-Gow. Published on Jul 02 2021 If you have any comments about this podcast, please get in touch: email dbarfield@rvc.ac.uk; tweet @dombarfield. We would greatly appreciate your time to rate us on Apple podcast or Acast and kindly write us a review.

Joining Brian and myself in our virtual studio is Associate Professor Karen Humm one of our leads of our Emergency and Critical Care service as well as lead of or Transfusion Medicine Service here at the RVC. Karen has a keen interest in all things related to transfusion medicine and we thought that we would discuss xenotransfusions. Specifically giving dog blood to cats, this might not be something that everyone agrees with, though certainly something that could be lifesaving. We hope that you enjoy.  Some papers of interest: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31867733/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22983454/ https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1098612X211007071 To cite this podcast as: Dom Barfield. RVC Clinical Podcast 127 Xenotransfusion with Karen Humm. Published on Jun 25 2021. If you have any comments about this podcast, please get in touch: email dbarfield@rvc.ac.uk; tweet @dombarfield. We would greatly appreciate your time to rate us on Apple podcast or Acast and kindly write us a review.

Joining Brian and myself in our virtual studio is Dr Erica Tinson one of our fabulous lecturers in Emergency and Critical Care here at the RVC. Erica has an interest in a variety of topics though we thought that we would discuss the highs and lows of sodium. We focus on the management of the extremes of both, hopefully not something you see commonly, but we hope will help when you do. We hope that you enjoy.  Some papers of interest: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31448558/https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28164834/https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28017410/https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10580909/https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8176662/ Some equations of interest: The Androgué-Madias formula: Change in serum (Na+) = [infusate (Na+) – serum (Na+)] / total body water +1OrChange in serum (Na+) = [infusate (Na+) + infusate (K+) – serum (Na+)] / total body water +1 Free water deficit = {(current [Na+] /normal [Na+])-1} x (0.6 x body weight in kg) Current Na+ is patients current plasma sodium concentration. Normal Na+ is the patients normal sodium concentration. Some podcasts of interest https://emcrit.org/emcrit/hyponatremia/https://emcrit.org/emcrit/better-management-hyponatremia/ To cite this podcast as: Dom Barfield. RVC Clinical Podcast 126 Deranged sodium with Erica Tinson. Published on Apr 16 2021. If you have any comments about this podcast, please get in touch: email dbarfield@rvc.ac.uk; tweet @dombarfield. We would greatly appreciate your time to rate us on Apple podcast or Acast and kindly write us a review.

Joining Brian and myself in our virtual studio is Dr Laura Cole one of our fabulous lecturers in Emergency and Critical Care here at the RVC. Laura has passion and enthusiasm for a variety of topics, and we are privileged that she joined us to share her thoughts about the development in POCUS. Ultrasound use for many reasons is being used more frequently in practice and we discuss recent techniques and descriptions. So, if you want to know about shred sign, z lines and curtains, please have a listen. We hope that you enjoy.   Some papers of interest: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28370336/https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33085212/https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30216579/https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33270302/https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31429645/https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33496045/https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fvets.2019.00291/fullhttps://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fvets.2020.616882/full To cite this podcast as: Dom Barfield. RVC Clinical Podcast 125 Developments in POCUS with Laura Cole. Published on Apr 02 2021. If you have any comments about this podcast, please get in touch: email dbarfield@rvc.ac.uk; tweet @dombarfield. We would greatly appreciate your time to rate us on Apple podcast or Acast and kindly write us a review.

Joining Brian and myself in our virtual studio we are delighted to have Rosie Allister, manager of the vetlife helpline. There has been a lot going on in the last year for everyone in and out of the profession and vetlife has received 25% increase in calls. We speak about vetlife, how we can support students on their transition into practice in these times of current restrictions. We also talk about bereavement and this podcast contains some discussion on suicide. We also consider our veterinary identity.  Please follow the signposts in the podcast and/or the links below. It is good to talk, but it matters how we do it. https://bvajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/do/10.1002/vetr.00200001https://www.vetlife.org.ukhttps://www.vetmindmatters.orghttps://www.befrienders.orghttps://www.ava.com.au/member-services/vethealth/telephone-counselling-service/https://www.avma.org/resources-tools/wellbeing/get-help To cite this podcast as: Dom Barfield. RVC Clinical Podcast 124 Vetlife 2021 with Rosie Allister. Published on Mar 26 2021. If you have any comments about this podcast, please get in touch: email dbarfield@rvc.ac.uk; tweet @dombarfield. We would greatly appreciate your time to rate us on Apple podcast or Acast and kindly write us a review.

Back in our virtual studio joining myself and Brian we are delighted to have Dr Siân Frosini Lecturer in Veterinary Clinical Microbiology here at the RVC. Siân did her undergraduate training here at the RVC and her PhD, and we are truly delighted that she has stayed on. We thought that we’d talk about bacteriology, sample submission and what do these reports with minimum inhibitory concentration actually mean. We hope that you enjoy. Some papers and websites of interest: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23890240/https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29577253/https://ca.idexx.com/files/idexx-microbiology-mic-guide-ca-en.pdf   To Cite this podcast as: Dom Barfield. RVC Clinical Podcast 123 Minimum Inhibitory Concentration with Siân Frosini. Published on Feb 12 2021 If you have any comments about this podcast, please get in touch: email dbarfield@rvc.ac.uk; tweet @dombarfield. We would greatly appreciate your time to rate us on Apple podcast or Acast and kindly write us a review.

Joining myself and Brian in our virtual studio we are delighted to have Professor of Small Animal Surgery Dan Brockman speak about management of GDV’s. Dan has been working at the RVC for over 20 years and has a variety of interests in soft tissue surgery. Dan could discuss many topics, though we asked him to share with you his tips for the surgical management of GDV. We hope that you enjoy. Some papers and websites of interest: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32077192/https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7591946/https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29203936/https://bvajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1136/inpract.31.2.66https://bvajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1136/inpract.31.3.114    To Cite this podcast as: Dom Barfield. RVC Clinical Podcast 122 Gastric Dilatation and Volvulus with Dan Brockman. Published on Feb 05 2021  If you have any comments about this podcast, please get in touch: email dbarfield@rvc.ac.uk; tweet @dombarfield. We would greatly appreciate your time to rate us on Apple podcast or Acast and kindly write us a review.

Joining myself and Brian in our virtual studio we are delighted to have Dr Zoë Halfacree, who after many years with the soft tissue team at the RVC has moved to Davies Veterinary Specialists. We have spoken to Zoë previously on the podcast about a variety of subjects, though her passion now has centred on veterinary sustainability. We talk to Zoë about what this is, why and how we can get involved and why we should start now. We hope that you enjoy. Some papers and websites of interest: https://veterinary-practice.com/article/plastics-in-healthcarehttps://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31202620/https://vetspecialists.co.uk/sustainability/https://www.veterinaryevidence.org/index.php/ve/article/view/251https://vetsustain.orghttps://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22892401/https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32031491/ To Cite this podcast as: Dom Barfield. RVC Clinical Podcast 121 Veterinary Sustainability with Zoë Halfacree. Published on Nov 20 2020 If you have any comments about this podcast, please get in touch: email dbarfield@rvc.ac.uk; tweet @dombarfield. We would greatly appreciate your time to rate us on Apple podcast or Acast and kindly write us a review.

Joining myself and Brian in our virtual studio we are delighted to have Associate Professor Karla Lee, who is the head of our soft tissue surgery team here at the RVC. Karla has many interests in surgery though we thought we would catch up with her on her thoughts about minimally invasive surgery in small animals, the pros and cons and what to get started with. Is this the future for small animal surgery? We hope that you enjoy. Some papers of interest: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28906566/https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28763276/https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31194657/https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30444260/https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27031418/ To Cite this podcast as: Dom Barfield. RVC Clinical Podcast 120 Minimally invasive surgery with Karla Lee. Published on Sep 04 2020 If you have any comments about this podcast, please get in touch: email dbarfield@rvc.ac.uk; tweet @dombarfield. We would greatly appreciate your time to rate us on Apple podcast or Acast and kindly write us a review.

Joining myself and Brian in our virtual studio we are delighted to have Dr Irina Gramer, who is the head of our oncology team and lecturer in oncology here at the RVC. We thought that we would discuss a relatively common neoplasia that we both see and current ideas on treatment and prognosis and if there is anything in the pipeline for future diagnosis and treatment. We hope that you enjoy. Some papers of interest: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30197439/https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30691610/https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31251441/https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31648405/ To Cite this podcast as: Dom Barfield. RVC Clinical Podcast 119 Haemangiosarcoma with Irina Gramer. Published on Aug 28 2020 If you have any comments about this podcast, please get in touch: email dbarfield@rvc.ac.uk; tweet @dombarfield. We would greatly appreciate your time to rate us on Apple podcast or Acast and kindly write us a review.

Joining myself and Brian down the end of the technology wire in our virtual studio we are delighted to have Professor of Small Animal Surgery Vicky Lipscomb, who is our Clinical Director of the RVC’s small animal university teaching hospital (the Queen Mother Hospital for Animals). Vicky spoke to Shailen back in podcast 16 (https://www.rvc.ac.uk/small-animal-referrals/news-events/clinical-podcasts/16-portosystemic-shunts) and we thought it was about time to catch up with Vicky about what we have learnt in the last 6 years on how we manage our PSS patients and what questions we are now asking. It you want to listen back to the explanation of what PSS are and the pathophysiology and how to diagnose them please listen back to podcast 16. We hope that you enjoy. Some papers of interest: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30706530  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30251431https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30084495https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32691934 To Cite this podcast as: Dom Barfield. RVC Clinical Podcast 118 Portosystemic shunts (6 years on) with Vicky Lipscomb. Published on Aug 21 2020 If you have any comments about this podcast, please get in touch: email dbarfield@rvc.ac.uk; tweet @dombarfield. We would greatly appreciate your time to rate us on Apple podcast or Acast and kindly write us a review.

Joining Brian and myself remotely is Dr Rebecca Geddes, Clinical Scientist Fellow in small animal medicine here at the RVC. We managed to persuade Dr Geddes to come back onto the podcast to talk about SUBs (subcutaneous ureteral bypass) in cats, something that she has recently started to look a lot into from a medical perspective. We hope that you enjoy. Some papers of interest: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30311526/https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30398425/https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24174498/ If you have any comments about this podcast, please get in touch: email dbarfield@rvc.ac.uk; tweet @dombarfield. We would greatly appreciate your time to rate us on Apple podcast or Acast and kindly write us a review.