Veterinary Clinical Podcasts The Royal Veterinary College

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.

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

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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.

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.

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 

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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.