BSAVA Companion - 2023, 11, November

A PDF of the full November Companion

New member benefit for new grads!; JSAP antimicrobial awareness; Clinical abstract submissions closing soon; PetSavers artistic inspiration!

   Fergus Allerton, Koen Pouwels and John Buckell detail the use of discrete choice experiments for working out inferiority margins to guide antibiotic use decisions.

BSAVA and the Small Animal Medicine Society (SAMSoc) have updated our guidance on rational antibiotic selection. Here we take the opportunity to highlight some of the key features of the new poster and supporting information.

  An exciting innovation for the new BSAVA Guide to Procedures in Small Animal Practice, due for publication Spring 2024, is the inclusion of several high-definition procedural videos shot at the University of Cambridge. Andy Perry reports…

  This PetSavers interview is with Professor Adrian Boswood who recently supervised a PetSavers funded student project exploring the effect of heart failure severity on red cell mass.

  Insects should be recognized as sentient creatures and ought therefore offered the same legal protections to safeguard their welfare as vertebrates, Lars Chittka told the audience for the Universities Federation for Animal Welfare online conference (20–1 June). John Bonner reports…

Exclusively available via the BSAVA Library, the updated resource on nutrition provides independent guidance on a range of diet options.

 Jenny Hammond, Professor of Veterinary Education at the Glasgow Vet School, was the recipient of this year’s BSAVA Amoroso award for outstanding contributions to small animal studies by a non-clinical member of university staff. Jenny helped lead the team that redesigned the undergraduate curriculum at Glasgow and continues to influence thinking on how to train new generations of veterinary graduates at home and abroad.

Article abstracts from the latest issue of JSAP.

A calendar of forthcoming online and in-person events.

This month we are pleased to publish the final Companion poetry competition runner-up poem entitled An Animal’s Perspective by RVN Emma Hogarth.