BSAVA Companion - 2024, 9, September

A PDF of the full September Companion

Join the Antibiotic Amnesty 2024 campaign!; APHA’s Small Animal Expert Group launches alert system

  The quality of entries to Companion’s inaugural student research project has been superb. The Companion editorial panel thoroughly enjoyed reading the wide range of submitted abstracts covering the disciplines of orthopaedics, ophthalmology and internal medicine. It is exciting to see the scope of projects undertaken within the UK’s veterinary schools by the students. These upcoming members of our profession are developing ideas that will challenge practices and help improve veterinary medicine in the future.

Have you got any new and novel findings that your fellow vets should know about? Do you want to share your research to a focused professional veterinary audience? Then why not consider submitting your work to BSAVA Congress for a chance to present your findings at Congress 2025 next March in Manchester? Submissions for the 2025 Clinical Abstracts will open on 9 September 2024, and close on 18 October. Those chosen will present their work at BSAVA Congress 2025 in Manchester on 20–22 March. This is your chance to join the ranks of our previous clinical abstract award winners!

To celebrate International Rabbit Day on Saturday 28 September Companion would like to test your powers of observation! See if you can spot the eight differences between the two rabbit consultations. Answers are available online in the BSAVA Library at: https://tinyurl.com/BSAVA-spot-the-difference

  In 2022, Dr Gavin Paterson from the University of Edinburgh received BSAVA PetSavers funding for a master’s degree by research investigating the potential of phage therapy to tackle Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections in dogs. Student Shannon Street tells us more…

Veterinary nurses play a vital role in dentistry in practice. Here, we look at the dental tasks that nurses can undertake and how these are governed by the Schedule 3 legislation.

  The energy used for heating buildings, cooling buildings and supplying electricity is a major, if not the biggest, contributor to your practice’s carbon footprint. Whilst this is a big area to tackle, it does mean that any small changes we make will result in a big difference in reducing our emissions! Becky Sedman, a member of the Vet Sustain Greener Veterinary Practice working group and a small animal vet, explains…

  Epilepsy is one of the most intensively studied neurological conditions in dogs but much of what we know about the disease has been gathered from research on an unrepresentative population of referral practice patients. Matthew James and colleagues were awarded this year’s BSAVA PetSavers Veterinary Achievement Award for a project which investigated how epileptic dogs are managed in first-opinion practices and what can be offered to improve their treatment. John Bonner reports…

Article abstracts from the latest issue of JSAP.