BSAVA Companion - 2023, 8, August

A PDF of the full August Companion

Alba returns to Falkirk!; More BSAVA PetSavers grant opportunities; Zoonotic diseases in companion animals; Get your BSAVA manual discounts!

This new edition builds on the success of its predecessor to reflect a decade of advancements in knowledge and diagnostic technology.

 Rachael Birkbeck and collaborators Dan Chan, Duana McBride and Stefano Cortellini from the Department of Clinical Science and Services, Royal Veterinary College were awarded PetSavers’ funding in 2017 to study trauma-induced coagulopathy in dogs.

   At some point in our lives, many of us will lack the capacity to make certain decisions for ourselves due to illness, injury or disability. Consideration of our best interests if we lack capacity for certain decisions and respect for our rights is something many of us will need and hope for. This article by Dr Rosie Allister and Dr Alex Thomson explores what this means for veterinary professionals in practice, how we determine decision-making capacity, and how we can support clients.

Clinical abstracts are short research presentations that are based on high quality clinical research undertaken in practice, academia or industry. The authors prepare a written summary of 250 words on the project and following peer review, accepted abstracts will be either selected for presentation as a poster or as a 10–12-minute oral presentation. Clinical abstract presentations allow the researchers to showcase their research to a wide audience and delegates can also benefit from seeing the latest advances in veterinary medicine.

The BSAVA Affiliated Groups each offer specialist knowledge and outstanding CPD. Highlighted here is a series of autumn meetings some of the affiliate groups have lined up

  When intensive care consultant Matt Morgan is wrestling with a clinical conundrum, he is quite likely to go looking for answers at the zoo rather than a medical library. In his job at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff, he has discovered that many challenges in human emergency medicine were solved millions of years ago by members of the animal kingdom. His new book One Medicine – how understanding animals can save your life shows how much NHS staff can learn from studying comparative physiology, anatomy and behaviour.

Article abstracts from the latest issue of JSAP.

A calendar of forthcoming online and in-person events.

In the May edition of Companion we published the poem Rescuing Me or You? by Nadia Davies, one of the four runner-up poems in the 2023 Companion poetry competition.

This month we are featuring the runner-up poems entitled A Deep Sea of Reflection by 3rd year vet student Caitlin Cressey and Death came today… by Dr Cliodhna O’Reilly BVM&S MRCVS