A new US colic study, published in Equine Veterinary Journal (EVJ), in partnership with the American Association of Equine Practitioners, has identified various risk factors, including delayed faecal output and increasing blood lactate, associated with post…

New research¹ published in in the Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery by veterinary clinicians at the University of Lisbon and a clinic in the nearby town of Barreiro in Portugal, suggests that cats may benefit from reduced anxiety, stress and perceived…

Ceva Animal Health has highlighted a new study which revealed that the use of the opioid buprenorphine, the active ingredient in Vetergesic, before equine elective general anaesthesia and surgery resulted in better post-operative analgesia than butorphanol…

Elisabeth Richardson MRCVS, Senior Clinical Training Scholar in Veterinary Anaesthesia at Queen’s Veterinary School Hospital, University of Cambridge, is conducting a new survey designed to give a deeper insight into the conduct of anaesthetic monitoring…

Kat Hart RVN, a teaching assistant at Harper Adams University in Shropshire is asking veterinary nurses and other veterinary professionals to take part in an online survey about preoperative fasting in cats and dogs. 

Preoperative fasting to reduce the…

The Journal of Small Animal Practice (JSAP) has published a new study which aimed to determine whether the application of vapocoolant spray before intravenous catheterisation resulted in reduced reaction and placement success.

The study was a randomised controlled…

A new VetCompass study, led by the Royal Veterinary College (RVC) and the University of Manchester, has quantified the real risk of anaesthesia in dogs. 

The paper, ‘Mortality Related to General Anaesthesia and Sedation in Dogs under UK Primary Veterinary…

Zero Pain Philosophy, the initiative set up by RCVS Analgesia and Anaesthesia Specialists Matt Gurney and Carl Bradbrook to improve pain management in veterinary patients, is asking vet nurses to complete its second annual Big Pain Survey.

The Big Pain Survey…

Francesca Beorby, Head Veterinary Nurse at Putlands Veterinary Centre, has performed a clinical audit which has revealed that neutering patients premedicated with medetomidine and methadone were significantly less likely to become hypotensive than when…

A study published in the Journal of Small Animal Practice has concluded that there is no difference between vapocoolant spray or eutectic lidocaine/prilocaine (EMLA) cream for improving tolerance of intravenous catheter placement in dogs¹.

Given that vapocoolant…

Lumbry Park Veterinary Specialists has published research in The Journal of Veterinary Anaesthesia and Analgesia which concluded that butorphanol administered as a premedicant for anaesthesia could be used to predict the presence of brain tumours or intercranial…