British Small Animal Veterinary Association
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Anaesthetic guidance
While anaesthesia for routine procedures should be stopped during the current restrictions relating to the COVID-19 pandemic, there will remain a need for anaesthetics for emergency and urgent procedures on welfare grounds. These brief guidelines provide practical information on administering anaesthesia while conserving oxygen supplies. This guidance has been endorsed by the Association of Veterinary Anaesthetists (AVA) and BSAVA is pleased to make this guidance available freely to the profession.
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BSAVA Companion
Companion is BSAVA's monthly membership magazine which is sent to members at the start of each month. The magazine features content that is relevant to life in practice including instructive CPD articles, latest news on issues facing the profession and reports on the activities of fellow members. The publication itself has many contributors, providing thought-provoking articles designed to test, educate and challenge. Use Manage Alerts to receive a table of contents email alert when new issues are published. Visit the Collections page to find a library of Companion CPD articles.
Non-members can access a free sample issue.
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Webinars - Anaesthesia
In response to the nationwide shortage of isoflurane, BSAVA is pleased to present a webinar by Ian Self, European Specialist and Associate Professor in Veterinary Anaesthesia and Analgesia, to help you manage your small animal patients during these challenging times. The webinar will cover the use of low flow anaesthesia and monitoring techniques to spare gaseous anaesthetic agents as well as tips on partial and total intravenous anaesthesia (PIVA and TIVA) and analgesia. This webinar has been designed to answer the clinical questions that our membership have submitted to us since the shortage was announced. The webinar is free to BSAVA members and available for others to purchase and view online. To access the webinar, go to 'chapters', click on the link and go to the 'supplementary data' tab.
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BSAVA Cognitive Aids for Anaesthesia in Small Animal Practice
Cognitive aids can save lives and reduce the incidence of complications. They also have an important role in improving outcomes for teams in crisis situations in operating theatres. The BSAVA Cognitive Aids for Anaesthesia in Small Animal Practice is a quick reference resource for veterinary teams in theatre. It includes checklists that should be completed as part of any anaesthetic procedure as well as troubleshooting guides and crisis checklists. In combination with appropriate training, this guide is a valuable addition to the veterinary team’s operating toolkit.
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BSAVA Affiliate Group Lectures 2021
We are pleased to present recordings of lecture presentations from some of BSAVA’s Affiliate Groups, held in association with the BSAVA Virtual Congress 2021. Members of each Affiliate Group have access to their respective lectures via the Affiliate Group’s website. Others can purchase access to individual lectures or can access them by using a Library Pass.
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BSAVA Student Focus
BSAVA Student Focus is a one-day virtual conference for veterinary students that took place on 23rd January 2021. The programme was tailored for students to help support them in preparation for a career in small animal veterinary practice. Here we present the recordings from the conference together with a series of bonus pre-recorded lectures. These lectures are available to all BSAVA members including veterinary students and veterinary nurse students.
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BSAVA Congress Proceedings 2020
BUY ONLINE ACCESS VIA THE ABOVE BUTTON TO PURCHASE ACCESS TO ALL 2020 CONGRESS ON DEMAND LECTURES. BSAVA is pleased to present 118 of the planned lectures from our Congress. Recordings show the lecture slides with audio, and are available from the podcast tab within each lecture. Please note that recordings are as provided by the speaker and limited editing has been possible. You can purchase access to the full Congress-on-Demand package via the 'buy online access' button above, or you can buy an individual lecture by clicking on an individual lecture and purchasing access. There is also a collection of lectures for veterinary nurses that can be purchased separately. BSAVA members receive a discount on all purchases. Where no lecture recording is available, the lecture summary is usually freely available. Clinical abstracts are freely available to all. See our Congress On Demand information page for more details of topic collections and purchasing options.
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BSAVA Congress Proceedings 2019
Lecture summaries, with their associated audio and video podcasts, and clinical abstracts from BSAVA Congress 2019. The proceedings are available to BSAVA members as part of their membership benefits and represent a valuable resource of hundreds of lectures.
If you are not a member, you may join BSAVA to gain access to these great resources, or you may purchase access to an individual year’s proceedings, or to individual lecture summaries, or you can buy a Library Pass and use this to access lecture summaries. Audio recordings and a video recording of the slides are available for most lectures, though please note that not every lecture has both audio and video files (the number of files indicated on the ‘supplementary’ tab will usually indicate this). Where no audio or video file is available, the lecture summary is usually freely available. Clinical abstracts are freely available to all.
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BSAVA Congress Proceedings 2018
Lecture summaries, with their associated audio and video podcasts, and clinical abstracts from BSAVA Congress 2018. The proceedings are available to BSAVA members as part of their membership benefits and represent a valuable resource of hundreds of lectures.
If you are not a member, you may join BSAVA to gain access to these great resources, or you may purchase access to an individual year’s proceedings, or to individual lecture summaries, or you can buy a Library Pass and use this to access lecture summaries. Audio recordings and a video recording of the slides are available for most lectures via the podcasts tab. Where no audio or video file is available, the lecture summary is usually freely available. Clinical abstracts are freely available to all.
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BSAVA Congress Proceedings 2017
Lecture summaries, with their associated audio and video podcasts, and clinical abstracts from BSAVA Congress 2017. The proceedings are available to BSAVA members as part of their membership benefits and represent a valuable resource of hundreds of lectures.
If you are not a member, you may join BSAVA to gain access to these great resources, or you may purchase access to an individual year’s proceedings, or to individual lecture summaries, or you can buy a Library Pass and use this to access lecture summaries. Audio recordings and a video recording of the slides are available for most lectures via the podcasts tab. Where no audio or video file is available, the lecture summary is usually freely available. Clinical abstracts are freely available to all.
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BSAVA Congress Proceedings 2016
Lecture summaries, with their associated audio and video podcasts, and clinical abstracts from BSAVA Congress 2016. The proceedings are available to BSAVA members as part of their membership benefits and represent a valuable resource of hundreds of lectures.
If you are not a member, you may join BSAVA to gain access to these great resources, or you may purchase access to an individual year’s proceedings, or to individual lecture summaries, or you can buy a Library Pass and use this to access lecture summaries. Audio recordings and a video recording of the slides are available for most lectures, though please note that not every lecture has both audio and video files (the number of files indicated on the ‘supplementary’ tab will usually indicate this). Where no audio or video file is available, the lecture summary is usually freely available. Clinical abstracts are freely available to all.
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BSAVA Congress Proceedings 2015
Lecture summaries, with their associated audio and video podcasts, and clinical abstracts from BSAVA Congress 2015. The proceedings are available to BSAVA members as part of their membership benefits and represent a valuable resource of hundreds of lectures.
If you are not a member, you may join BSAVA to gain access to these great resources, or you may purchase access to an individual year’s proceedings, or to individual lecture summaries, or you can buy a Library Pass and use this to access lecture summaries. Audio recordings are available for most lectures within the podcasts tab. Where no audio file is available, the lecture summary is usually freely available. Clinical abstracts are freely available to all.
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BSAVA Guide to Nutrition
Veterinary professionals are often called upon to provide guidance on appropriate nutrition for animals under their care. Since nutrition is the cornerstone of all good veterinary care it should ideally form part of the discussion with every pet owner seeking advice about their pet. As veterinary professionals, our advice to our clients should always be based on sound scientific evidence, whenever available, excellent clinical reasoning and informed risk management. Given the wealth of information available to pet owners, it is the responsibility of veterinary professionals to assist them in making decisions about what to feed their pet. As well as ensuring that minimum nutritional requirements are met, the chosen diet should ideally provide optimal nutrition. A free webinar The essential ingredients for a good nutritional recommendation is now available to provide additional support.
Last updated: April 2020
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BSAVA Guide to Pain Management in Small Animal Practice
This essential reference is aimed at all members of the veterinary team. Presented in an easy-to-read instructional format, this guide provides practical information on pain management for small animals, including cats and dogs, birds, rabbits and exotic pets, with an emphasis on patient welfare and evidence-based medicine.
The early chapters lay the foundations of pain management, including the physiology of pain, acute and chronic pain, pharmacological treatment and physical treatment. The following chapters focus on particular pain scenarios, such as dental pain and cancer pain, using authors’ perspectives and case examples to enhance guidelines.
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BSAVA Guide to Procedures in Small Animal Practice
This guide provides practical, step-by-step guidance on how to perform the diagnostic and therapeutic procedures commonly carried out in small animal veterinary practice. Routine clinical examination of the major body systems, and protocols for the management of selected emergencies, are also described. In addition to the actual technique, each procedure has information on indications and contraindications, equipment required, and potential complications, together with the editors’ own hints and tips.
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BSAVA Guide to the Use of Veterinary Medicines
The BSAVA Guide to the Use of Veterinary Medicines has been created by experts in medicine and dispensing regulations and is designed to help you navigate the minefield of issues, changes and regulations, and also to promote best practice. The Guide is freely available to the veterinary profession and is updated regularly.
Last updated: November 2020 (Controlled Drugs section, key points only)
Jonathan Cracknell’s darting manual is available to BSAVA members only.
The Veterinary Medicines Directorate supports this Guide to the Use of Veterinary Medicines written and published by the BSAVA.
Note: Before using this guide, readers are advised to read the disclaimer on the table of contents page of the full-guide PDF.
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BSAVA Lab Method Performance Verification Help Tool
Veterinary clinicians regularly use laboratory results to support decisions about their patients. Consequently, it is important to know whether the laboratory equipment they use to support diagnostic decision making is fit for that purpose. Many practices will perform some sort of quality control checks on their in-house analysers, however sometimes the ‘target range’ provided is too wide to detect clinically relevant analytical errors. Therefore, the BSAVA has developed guidelines and tools that will enable practices to optimise the quality control checks that they are already performing on their analysers. The BSAVA Lab Method Performance Verification Help Tool is accompanied by instructions for use and video guides.
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BSAVA Manual of Avian Practice
A Foundation Manual Authored by veterinarians with experience in all aspects of avian care, this manual is an essential tool for those in general practice who do not often see birds. Subjects including anatomy and physiology, husbandry, behaviour, examination, and surgical techniques are covered in detail; common presentations are also dealt with in individual chapters. Includes video content.
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BSAVA Manual of Backyard Poultry Medicine and Surgery
This manual provides practical and high quality information to help veterinarians provide the level of care to backyard birds that an increasingly wide client base expects and deserves. The manual covers chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese, guinea fowl, ornamental pheasants and peafowl.
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BSAVA Manual of Canine and Feline Abdominal Imaging
The introductory section of this manual outlines the approach to abdominal imaging, with chapters dedicated to radiography and ultrasonography. The second section is devoted to imaging of the abdominal spaces and the common structures, including the vasculature and lymphatic system. The remainder of the manual is given over to the individual body systems.
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