BSAVA Companion - 2025, 1, January

A PDF of the full January Companion

Personal growth, passion and purpose; New RCVS EMS National Booking Database; BSAVA PetSavers Charity Challenge!

Discover the IDEXX Advanced Diagnostics Stream at Congress and Expo

Veterinary nurses play a crucial role in the management of wounds – from simple surgical wounds to more severe, open wounds. In this article, we look at the tasks that nurses can undertake governed by the Schedule 3 legislation.

  A greater understanding of the relationship between cats and their owners/carers, the environments in which they inhabit, including the food they eat and their interactions with other animals, could help us provide better care for cats and improve the human–animal bond. Dr Sam Jack from the Bristol Cats Study explains the launch of this wide-ranging research and how it has developed over the last 14 years.

 Professor Melanie Hezzell of the University of Bristol received BSAVA PetSavers funding and that of the Veterinary Cardiovascular Society to undertake a longitudinal study of canine myxomatous mitral valve disease entitled Do measurements of circulating fibrosis markers change with disease progression in canine myxomatous mitral valve disease?

  It’s been more than 60 years since Rachel Carson’s landmark book Silent Spring was published, sounding the alarm on the devastating environment impacts of widespread pesticide use, and ultimately leading to a worldwide ban of the insecticide DDT (Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane).1 Yet today, the picture is just as bleak. Lizzie Croose reports…

  This month, our sustainability journey continues with RCVS Recognized Specialist in Veterinary Cardiology, Gavin McAulay in the driving seat, assessing the travel decisions open to us with a view to reducing the climate change impact.

  The 1966 Veterinary Surgeons Act refers to the art and science of veterinary surgery and medicine. In his 40 years as a member of the profession regulated by that legislation, Dr Chris Little has made contributions to the science in various ways. He has been a small animal and mixed practice vet, a first-opinion practitioner and a referral vet. He was a researcher at two veterinary schools and even dabbled for a while in the veterinary pharmaceutical industry. Now he thinks it is time to brush up his artistic skills.

Article abstracts from the latest issue of JSAP.

A calendar of forthcoming online and in-person events.

  How can veterinary diagnostic laboratories and clinicians in practice work together more effectively to optimize the interpretation of antimicrobial susceptibility tests (AST), and determine the optimal antimicrobial treatment for any clinical case? This was the question tackled at an antimicrobial stewardship event organized by the Small Animal Medicine Society (SAMSoc) and hosted at the University of Surrey in November 2024. BSAVA Scientific Editor Lizzie Croose reports…