Check-out the room for surgery. The machine that looks like a sci-fi pressure cooker is an autoclave which autoclaves, or sterilizes, all the instruments and garments used in surgery. If a vet offers to pay a house call and do surgery on your kitchen table, tell him thanks, but no thanks.
Although you may imagine you are paying through the nose for an operation or a shot, you are not only paying for a few slices and stitches, or 80¢ worth of medication, but for your surgeon’s essential skill and sterile equipment.
In some facilities there are ultrasound dentistry instruments. Cats and dogs don’t get cavities, but they do collect a lot of tartar on their teeth which makes their gums recede, their teeth fall out and en route produces a gargantuan case of halitosis. It’s a glum prospect, cleaning the teeth of an old animal who hasn’t had time to brush after every meal. Animals are given an anesthetic before the tartar is removed, and the vet, a nose plug.
Jessica Sewell of VCA Animal Hospitals Becomes First Registered Veterinary Technician Appointed to Georgia State Board of Veterinary Medicine
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- Jessica Sewell is the first Registered Veterinary Technician (RVT) to receive the honor in the state
- VCA Chief Medical Officer Marie Kerl, DVM says the appointment signals the growing appreciation for technicians role in delivering the best in veterinary care
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LOS ANGELES, April 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ VCA Animal Hospitals Jessica M. Sewell, BAS CVT LVT RVT, has been appointed by Georgia Governor Brian Kemp to serve on the Georgia State Board of Veterinary Medicine. Sewell is the first Registered Veterinary Technician (RVT) to serve in this position and in this role. Veterinary services leader VCA, a part of Mars Veterinary Health, helps care for 4 million pets each year.
Equality is vet med’s golden opportunity
Don’t pat yourself on the back too hard for standing up for equality when it’s how things should have always been
April 15, 2021
Women are becoming more of a voice in the working world, especially in veterinary medicine.
My late mother, Virginia, graduated from college when she was 16 years old. My oldest sister, Cheryl, was number one in her class at Yale. Maybe that means we have a genius strain in our DNA, but in a way it’s a comeuppance for me and the men in my family, showcasing how many of the people are a lot smarter, more competent, and more confident than me, are women.
San Diego Humane searching for person who abandoned dead dog in Oceanside park
San Diego Humane Society
and last updated 2021-04-14 15:29:59-04
SAN DIEGO (KGTV) â San Diego Humane Society law enforcement is asking the public for help finding the person who abandoned a severely emaciated dog found dead in an Oceanside park.
SDHS said the dog was found in Alamosa Park by a passerby on March 17 and taken to the society s Oceanside campus. After being examined and a necropsy, veterinarians determined the 3-year-old female brindle American Pitbull terrier had died of starvation.
SDHS said the dog had a body score of 1, which means ribs, lumbar vertebrae, pelvic bones and all bony prominences evident from a distance. No discernible body fat. Obvious loss of muscle mass, according to the American Animal Hospital Association.
Zomedica Announces First Commercial Sale of Its Truforma® Platform
March 16, 2021 06:00 ET | Source: Zomedica Corp. Zomedica Corp. Ann Arbor, Michigan, UNITED STATES
ANN ARBOR, Mich., March 16, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) Zomedica Corp. (NYSE American: ZOM) (“Zomedica” or the “Company”), a veterinary health company creating point-of-care diagnostics products for dogs and cats, yesterday recorded the first veterinarian sale of TRUFORMA
® and officially entered commercialization.
“This is a momentous day for Zomedica, our shareholders, the veterinarians we serve, and the companion animals in their care. I would like to express my deepest gratitude to the many people at Zomedica who dedicated the past two years of their lives to achieving this critical milestone,” commented Robert Cohen, Zomedica’s Chief Executive Officer. “It is a credit to both our employees and to the stellar team with whom we have worked at