Kerida Shook

Hi Scott, very interesting! However, if I have a haemabdomen dog with a splenic mass, I generally recommend PTS. Who would have the time or the access to the equipment, to do a full body MRI or CT in an actively bleeding dog? Or can something like tranexemic acid (I can’t spell it…) slow bleeding? Or have I misunderstood the point here?
I’ll check the paper, but I find these cases very difficult, especially when the mean survival time in haemabdomen dogs post splenectomy is 3 months. This may have changed, but that is the last statistics I remember, so I do not think it is ethical to put any of these dogs through surgery. I would love to have a discussion on this, as my information may be out of date! But I really don’t want to hear about the anecdotal dog whose ruptured splenic mass was benign and they lived happily ever after 😉
I am looking forward to be proven wrong here!
Keri

Thanks for this information. I am a huge fan of Librella and Solensia and generally wholeheartedly recommend clients to try it for their OA animals. I have not seen any obvious side effects in dogs- just my observations- but seems to me when Librella doesn’t work then this occurs mostly in larger dogs. Also, my cat and our receptionist’s cat did get various degrees of pruritis from Solensia. My cat has it relatively mild, and I can control it with topicals but he is a different cat after he has had his Solensia, he can go up and down the stairs without bunny hopping. I only give it to him as and when he seems sore, or his bunny hopping on the stairs recurs, so he doesn’t get it every 4 weeks. And I worry (unecessarily) about his kidneys, so try to stay away from meloxicam.
Our receptionist’s cat, however, who was CKD stage 3, really suffered terribly with her itchy skin. She was self harming to the point of causing bleeding sores especially around her head, neck and ears. The Solensia was stopped, but her skin issues pursued for weeks and weeks, and we were limited as to what we could give her. It eventually did settle with topical steroid, antibiotics and piriton, but it took a very long time.
However, especially for elderly cats, I just think Solensia is a god send!

Hi all,
I am late to the party per usual, my name is Keri and I am hoping to really up my game in feline medicine. I have always maintained that cats are the women of veterinary medicine- it is seemingly all geared towards dogs. I have a rescue cat, Aksel, since 2019, who is my furry soul mate, and he went missing for 54 days at the beginning of this year (I can really recommend the cat tractive GPS collar- he doesn’t leave the house without it now). He was
a traumatised and skinny cat when he was finally found, but he is back to his regal self now. No dogs in my household since Aksel would find this highly unacceptable.
I will have a thousand questions for the course leaders, as I am a ‘vintage’ vet and really need to refresh my knowledge. Especially in cat anaesthetic protocols, since we have been having some issues with these at my present employment.
And thanks vtx for offering this course and thinking of the number 2 patients in vet med 😉
Keri

Hi everyone,
vintage vet here with very vintage knowledge. That’s why I am here, I have a lot to review, learn and update in my old brain, so please be patient. Cardiology is one of those (many) topics I feel I can intensely review, and three days later am again none the wiser. So, here I am again, just trying to justify my clients’ trust. I am looking forward to the course.
Keri