BSAVA Companion - 2020, 9, September

A PDF of the full September Companion.

Ready, steady, GO! - BSAVA: THE ABSTRACT SESSIONS; Do you have students looking for pre-clinical EMS?; Keep an eye out for...BSAVA Cognitive Aids for Anaesthesia in Small Animal Practice; New additions to the Webinar Library

Following the release of the 10th edition BSAVA Small Animal Formulary earlier this year, the BSAVA has produced eight new client information leaflets. BSAVA client information leaflets offer information on the safe use of drugs off-label in dogs and cats, to help vets fulfil their obligations under the prescribing cascade.

 Andrew Foster and collaborators Nicola Ho, Sandra Sanchis-Mora, Jaime Viscasillas and Ludovic Pelligand, from the Royal Veterinary College, have been awarded PetSavers funding to explore the potential of the use of a wireless, smartphone/tablet-compatible ultrasound probe for the provision of locoregional anaesthesia in dogs.

Online consultations have proved their worth in helping maintain care for veterinary patients during lockdown and will still be providing an essential service when the coronavirus emergency is over, practitioners were told at the ‘Focus on our digital future’ SPVS-VMG webinar on 23 June 2020. John Bonner reports...

The BSAVA’s Affiliated Groups each offer specialist knowledge and outstanding CPD and, not to be deterred by the present COVID-19 restrictions, some exciting online meetings and conferences have been arranged.

During September, Dr Siraya Chunekamrai, unanimously endorsed by the WSAVA Executive Board, is standing for election as the WSAVA’s first female president. She is a Thai veterinarian with a strong interest in self and professional development. Here Dr Chunekamrai tells us about her hopes and aspirations for her presidential year.

  “A modern gothic suspense novel done right” was the verdict of the influential US literary magazine Kirkus Reviews on the first book by a new author. Entitled ‘The Au Pair’, it was written by Cambridgeshire veterinary surgeon Emma Rous. John Bonner caught up with her as she dots the i’s and crosses the t’s on her second novel.

Article abstracts from the latest issue of JSAP.

A calendar of forthcoming online events.