As the nights draw in there is definitely more than a hint of frost in the air and the antifreeze may be coming out to keep our cars running smoothly…. but did you know that antifreeze is highly toxic to dogs and cats?? Antifreeze may appeal to our pets as a tasty festive drink – usually lapped up from the [...]
Recently Sam continued his studies in orthopaedic surgery by attending the AOVET course on the principles in small animal fracture management hosted in Oxford. This was an intense course covering the principles of all things ortho. The AOVET course is a world renowned orthopaedic teaching institute and is hosted by high-calibre speakers who are leading clinicians in there field with [...]
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation is the attempt to revive a patient after they have suffered a cardiac arrest. As animals are so severely unwell in this situation, CPR only has about a 6% success rate, so this is something that the veterinary profession is working to improve all the time. In Human medicine the CPR success rate is also much lower than [...]