State of the Heart: Current Recommendations from Two Cardiologists

VetFolio Voice: Get take-away tips for managing preclinical myxomatous mitral valve disease in your patients!

Get Ahead of OA Today A cutting-edge line of joint health supplements for pets with osteoarthritis. LISTEN NOW

Learn about one of the many new foods from Hill’s designed for pets with multiple health conditions. TUNE IN TO WHAT’S NEW!

Learn about a new sedation agent for dogs that minimizes the stress and maximizes the efficiency by providing quicker onset and recovery times.

When conflicts arise at work, do you facilitate solutions? Tune in to this podcast episode and learn how to develop effective conflict management skills.

A Commitment to Sustainability Podcast episode: Learn how one company’s sustainability commitment will better the profession and the planet. LISTEN NOW

Respiratory Distress? Don’t Panic! In this VetFolio Voice episode, you’ll get tips for responding to respiratory distress in your patients to help ensure a good outcome. LISTEN NOW

Knowing how to treat the most common toxins can be a matter of life and death for your canine and feline patients. Every year, the ASPCA Animal Poison Control Center analyzes its data to compile a list of the types of toxins commonly encountered by pets. In this episode of the VetFolio Voice podcast, you'll learn about the top 10 toxins called into the ASPCA Animal Poison Control Center in 2024, how pets commonly encounter or ingest these toxins, and treatment and prevention strategies.

What can you do to ensure your staff is safe and the patient is comfortable while producing good-quality diagnostic radiographs? Tune in to this VetFolio Voice podcast episode to learn about hands-free radiography. It complements existing compassionate care efforts across veterinary medicine, helping veterinary technicians and veterinary assistants to minimize the stress of obtaining radiographs for patients. The approach reduces exposure to radiation for veterinary assistants and technicians via proper protocols of gentle sedation (when indicated), anti-anxiety medicines if appropriate and hands-free positioning approaches. The results are quality images which are obtained more efficiently with a reduced number of retakes while improving the safety and overall experience for hospital teams and patients.

With dogs living longer, veterinary professionals are seeing more patients presenting with cognitive decline, a degenerative disease that worsens over time. Although there isn’t a cure, there are ways to manage cognitive dysfunction. Tune in to this episode of the VetFolio Voice podcast to deepen your understanding of the causes, early signs and treatments and get tips for communicating with clients. You’ll explore how tools like questionnaires can help identify signs, plus learn how atrophy in part of the brain can be seen on MRI. You’ll also discover how antioxidants can slow the progression of cognitive decline, how to keep aging dogs active and engaged, and the importance of managing anxiety and behavioral issues earlier in life.