Veterinary Clinical Podcasts

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Veterinary Clinical Podcasts

Welcome to the RVC veterinary clinical podcast. In these shows, Dominic Barfield, with the technical help of Brian Cox talks to a variety of different faculty/specialists/clinicians from the RVC about clinical relevant material to everyone in practice, if you are just about to start your veterinary career or you are a seasoned professional we aim to provide something for everyone. Whether you’re listening whilst you are cooking dinner, driving home, walking the dog or even at the gym, we want to give you some practical tips and advice that you won’t necessarily find in the text books or journal articles that we hope makes a difference to your patients. Find the show notes on https://goo.gl/ECRxGh you can follow me on twitter @dombarfield or email any suggestions/comments to dbarfield@rvc.ac.uk.

  1. JUN 28

    143 Feline Infectious Peritonitis 2024

    Joining Brian and myself in our studio we are delighted to have Dr Sarah Tayler, one of our fabulous lecturers and Dr Jodie Green, one of our amazing residents both in our Small Animal Internal Medicine team here at the RVC. We thought it was time to catch up about Feline Infectious Peritonitis (FIP), it has been a couple of years and we are understanding a little more about the therapies that we have, trying to find out why some patients don’t respond to therapy (going from a nearly 100% mortality to 20% and we are asking questions about these 20% - how times change quickly). We have a little more experience now in using these drugs in the UK, built on information from our Australian colleagues, and now they are available in the USA. We hope that you enjoy. Some websites of interest https://www.rvc.ac.uk/small-animal-vet/specialist-referrals/clinical-services/veterinary-internal-medicine/feline-infection-peritonitis 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/37766254/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37548535/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36002137/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37403259/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37732386/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37551843/ To Cite this podcast as: Dom Barfield. RVC Clinical Podcast 143 Feline Infectious Peritonitis 2024 with Sarah Tayler and Jodie Green. Published on Jun 28 2024 If you have any comments about this podcast, please get in touch: email dbarfield@rvc.ac.uk; or podcast@rvc.ac.uk or Instagram @rvcclinicalpodcast. We would greatly appreciate your time to rate us on Apple podcast, Acast or Spotify and kindly write us a review.

    39 min

  2. MAY 17

    142 Relapse of dogs with immune mediated disease

    Joining Brian and myself in our virtual studio we are joined by the fantastic Richard Sparrow, Staff Clinician in Internal Medicine here at the RVC. Richard recently published a paper looking at relapse rates in immune mediated diseases (immune mediated haemolytic anaemia, immune mediated thrombocytopenia and immune mediated polyarthritis) in dogs and we thought to use this as a sounding board for a conversation about this topic, how to treat and taper immunosuppressive drugs and what do we do about ongoing preventative healthcare, such as vaccination. We hope that you enjoy.   Reference:  https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jvim.17004 To Cite this podcast as: Dom Barfield. RVC Clinical Podcast 142 Relapse of dogs with immune mediated disease with Richard Sparrow. Published on May 17 2024 If you have any comments about this podcast, please get in touch: emailpodcast@rvc.ac.uk or follow us on instagram@rvcclinicalpodcast. We would greatly appreciate your time to rate us on Apple podcast, podbean or Acast and kindly write us a review.

  3. 12/22/2023

    141 Sleep, fatigue and mental health

    Joining Brian and myself in our studio (three times a charm) we are delighted to speak to Nicola Ho, Lecturer in Anaesthesia and Analgesia here at the RVC. Nicola, with her anaesthesia colleagues, sent out a questionnaire to those anaesthesia vets, nurses and technicians to find out how sleep and fatigue affected them. It is an interesting and pertinent topic when most of us have roles in which we need to work shift work and/or be on call and how that might affect us, and the patients we look after. It might not have answers though a space to start or continue the conversation to think about what you can do to make it better where you are for you and your team. We hope that you enjoy. Some references: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37142463/ To Cite this podcast as: Dom Barfield. RVC Clinical Podcast 141 Sleep, fatigue and mental health with Nicola Ho. Published on Dec 22 2023   If you have any comments about this podcast, please get in touch: email podcast@rvc.ac.uk or follow us on instagram @rvcclinicalpodcast. We would greatly appreciate your time to rate us on Apple podcast, podbean or Acast and kindly write us a review.

    20 min

  4. 12/15/2023

    140 Oral hypoglycaemic drugs for diabetic cat

    Joining Brian and myself in our studio (again, that is two in a row) we delighted to speak to Chris Scudder, Senior Lecturer in Internal Medicine and Co-Head of the Internal Medicine Team here at the RVC. There has been a couple of new drugs on the market one in the USA (bexagliflozin) and one in the UK (velagliflozin) both SGLT-2 inhibitors, oral hypoglycaemic agents to be used in newly diagnosed diabetic cats. We thought we’d chat to Chris about the information that is out there about these agents, how they can be used and what questions we have about their use. He recently spoke to our ECC team about euglycaemic diabetic ketoacidosis (eDKA) and I was intrigued. We hope that you enjoy. Some references:  https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37148170/  https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34975223/  There is an abstract on page 2512 here https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jvim.16559 To Cite this podcast as: Dom Barfield. RVC Clinical Podcast 140 Oral hypoglycaemic drugs for diabetic cats with Chris Scudder. Published on Dec 15 2023  If you have any comments about this podcast, please get in touch: email podcast@rvc.ac.uk or follow us on instagram @rvcclinicalpodcast. We would greatly appreciate your time to rate us on Apple podcast, podbean or Acast and kindly write us a review.

    26 min

  5. 12/08/2023

    139 Lower Urinary Tract Surgery

    Joining Brian and myself in our studio (yes that is right we are back) we are delighted to speak to Lynda Rutherford, Senior Lecturer in Soft Tissue Surgery and Head of Soft Tissue Surgery here at the RVC. I thought we’d continue the theme of the last podcast on feline urethral obstruction and speak to a surgeon about this subject, really what you can do if you can’t place a urethral catheter (is there a stone that you can’t hydro-pulse, unlikely) but maybe there is a urethral tear (traumatic or iatrogenic). Lynda kindly spoke to us about BOAS previously and it is always good to catch up.  Lynda gave a talk to the hospital about on this topic and thought it would be good to share with a wider audience, we hope that you enjoy.   Some references:  https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21515222/  https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35363097/  https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17501659/  To Cite this podcast as: Dom Barfield. RVC Clinical Podcast 139 Lower urinary tract surgerywith Lynda Rutherford. Published on Dec 8 2023  If you have any comments about this podcast, please get in touch: email podcast@rvc.ac.uk or follow us on instagram @rvcclinicalpodcast. We would greatly appreciate your time to rate us on Apple podcast, podbean or Acast and kindly write us a review.

    39 min

  6. 04/28/2023

    138 Feline Urethral Obstruction

    Joining Brian and myself in our virtual studio we are delighted to speak to Professor Edward Cooper, Section Head of Small Animal Emergency and Critical Care at The Ohio State University. I thought we’d continue the theme of the last podcast on feline urethral obstruction and speak to an international authority on the subject, who has been trying to answer some fundamental questions about this topic. He kindly returned my email and spoke to us, despite technical issues he was incredibly patient. Prof Cooper is clearly passionate about this topic and it was great to talk, we hope that you enjoy. Link to Prof Cooper’s bio: https://vet.osu.edu/cooper-edward  Some references: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21118011/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31250535/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31840942/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36779411/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33620246/ To Cite this podcast as: Dom Barfield. RVC Clinical Podcast 138 Feline Urethral Obstruction with Edward Cooper. Published on April 28 2023 If you have any comments about this podcast, please get in touch: email dbarfield@rvc.ac.uk; or follow us on instagram @rvcclinicalpodcast. We would greatly appreciate your time to rate us on Apple podcast, podbean or Acast and kindly write us a review.

    54 min

  7. 04/14/2023

    137 Urethral obstruction management in primary care

    Joining Brian and myself in our virtual studio (had to dust off the microphone, apologies for that) we are delighted to have Dr Dave Beeston, one of our final year residents in Emergency and Critical Care, here at the RVC. Dave has many interests and enthusiasm for a variety of ECC topics and is no stranger to this podcast regarding his own career journey, though we thought we'd talk to him about one of his research papers, regarding the occurrence and clinical management of urethral obstruction in male cats, a vetcompass study looking at cats in primary care in the UK. We hope that you enjoy. The paper discussed: Beeston, D., Humm, K., Church, D.B., Brodbelt, D. and O'Neill, D.G., 2022. Occurrence and clinical management of urethral obstruction in male cats under primary veterinary care in the United Kingdom in 2016. Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine, 36(2), pp.599-608. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35199370/ To Cite this podcast as: Dom Barfield. RVC Clinical Podcast 137 Urethral obstruction management in primary care with David Beeston. Published on April 14 2023   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.

    47 min

  8. 11/18/2022

    136 Heat Related Illness

    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.pdf And 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/s41598-020-66015-8 Hall, 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/ani10081324 Hall, 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-w E. 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/vetsci9050231 Carter, 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.

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Welcome to the RVC veterinary clinical podcast. In these shows, Dominic Barfield, with the technical help of Brian Cox talks to a variety of different faculty/specialists/clinicians from the RVC about clinical relevant material to everyone in practice, if you are just about to start your veterinary career or you are a seasoned professional we aim to provide something for everyone. Whether you’re listening whilst you are cooking dinner, driving home, walking the dog or even at the gym, we want to give you some practical tips and advice that you won’t necessarily find in the text books or journal articles that we hope makes a difference to your patients. Find the show notes on https://goo.gl/ECRxGh you can follow me on twitter @dombarfield or email any suggestions/comments to dbarfield@rvc.ac.uk.

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