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New studies, decoded: the journal, the sample size, the limitation, and what actually changes for your next appointment.
The psychedelic-therapy survey: what 87 vet students expect, and what shapes those expectations
A cross-sectional survey of 87 veterinary students found that positive attitudes toward psychedelics showed stronger associations with favorable treatment expectations than factual knowledge alone.
3 min read · Aug 21
The rodenticide number that changes the IV vitamin K call
A teaching hospital gave IV vitamin K to 58 poisoned dogs and cats and recorded zero adverse reactions. The survival data changes the plasma call.
3 min read · Aug 20
The surgical drape that peeled less in a spay trial
A prototype with a more flexible base film peeled less in a 90-cat randomized trial. The material change that might finally solve the curl-away problem.
4 min read · Aug 20
The venous lactate number that correlated strongly with arterial, and when it didn't
A 90-dog study found venous lactate correlated strongly with arterial values, but the correlation weakened in normolactatemic patients.
3 min read · Aug 20
The 3866-dog study that says high lactate doesn't mean acidosis, and what that changes in triage
A university teaching hospital study of 3866 dogs found metabolic acidosis in only 37.5% of hyperlactatemic cases, the rest had different acid-base disorders or none at all.
3 min read · Aug 19
The ear-infection study that drops the antibiotic
A hydrocortisone spray alone matched a three-drug gel in 200 dogs with erythemato-ceruminous otitis externa.
5 min read · Aug 19
The copper-colored eyes that finally named the shunt nobody could find
An internal medicine specialist saw what a year of general-practice visits didn't: the eye color that tracks with a rare liver defect.
3 min read · Aug 17
Ohio State is recruiting large animal vets in high school now, and that timeline tells you something
Sixty-two high school students got hands-on large animal rotations this summer. The timeline shift matters more than the headcount.
3 min read · Aug 17
The glaucoma surgery that works better from the back of the eye, and why almost nobody does it
Pars plana endocyclophotocoagulation shows superior IOP control in humans and the one published canine case, but the skill set and equipment keep it scarce.
6 min read · Aug 13
The Cytology Slide You Used to FedEx Is Now Read Before Lunch
Zoetis's point-of-care AI reads blood smears in minutes. The add-on expert review costs extra. Here's the liability math nobody wants to print.
4 min read · Aug 11
Mid-femur carries the muscle mass, and the 0-6 palpation score that tracked it
A Korean university scanned 76 hindlimbs to find out where muscle mass concentrates, and whether a standardized palpation score tracks what the imaging shows.
4 min read · Aug 11
The sepsis call that just got harder to make in the exam room
A consensus panel redefined sepsis in dogs and cats, and the threshold you learned in school just moved.
3 min read · Aug 11
POCUS Found Pneumothorax in 5 of 14 High-Rise Cats. Radiographs Caught Three.
Five cats had pneumothorax on ultrasound; thoracic radiographs identified three. The miss happened in cats with normal vitals.
3 min read · Aug 11
The heroin-packet case: eight packets, two naloxone doses, one surgery
Naloxone reversed the signs. The dog went home. Two days later, the signs came back. Imaging showed why.
3 min read · Aug 11
The anesthesia choice that didn't move the endothelial needle
A randomized trial measured endothelial biomarkers in dogs anesthetized with sevoflurane versus isoflurane and found no difference.
3 min read · Aug 11
The PU complication rate every practice should benchmark against
140 cats, four teaching hospitals, and the finding that changes how you counsel owners before the surgery.
3 min read · Aug 11
The IV bolus before pericardiocentesis showed no benefit in this trial
A randomized trial tested whether the crystalloid bolus before the tap actually helps. The answer changes how you run the next tamponade case.
4 min read · Aug 11
Five vet students just won $10K each to enter poultry medicine
The AAAP-Merck partnership just announced its eleventh cohort. That longevity is the story.
2 min read · Aug 6
The prep-room bottleneck costing you billable time between cases
Inefficient room flow bleeds time you can't bill for. A dual-boarded surgeon's checklist of the layout variables that actually move the needle.
6 min read · Aug 4
Your practice burns 400-600 hours a year on prescription admin alone
A typical practice may spend the equivalent of a quarter FTE on prescription admin. Here's what digital workflow actually reclaims.
5 min read · Aug 3
Fourteen Cats Got Dog Plasma. Here's the Number Emergency Vets Need.
Five of fourteen survived to discharge. Small sample, but it's the only published count emergency vets have for xenotransfusion.
4 min read · Jul 30
Eleven High Schoolers Just Spent Five Weeks in Vet Research Labs. One Learned She Could Skip Surgery.
A weak stomach nearly ended one participant's veterinary dream. Then she found the lab work. What NC State's pilot tells us about the pipeline.
4 min read · Jul 29
What 498 Dogs With Bloat Can (and Can't) Tell You About the Next One
Three real JVECC retrospective papers reveal how a survival rate, a case series, and an untreated cohort can each mislead a reader who stops at the abstract.
4 min read · Jul 28
The One Number to Check Before You Quote a JAVMA Study to a Client
The n in a paper's abstract and the n behind the specific number you're about to say out loud are often two different numbers, and the gap between them is where bad client conversations start.
4 min read · Jul 28