Toxicology

Peritoneal dialysis is used most commonly for acute kidney injury (AKI). It is also indicated for patients with anuria or oliguria, life-threatening fluid overload (e.g. pulmonary oedema) or refractory hyperkalaemia, if attempts to induce urine production are unsuccessful. Uraemic signs, progressive azotaemia, or azotaemia that does not improve with standard medical therapy are indications for dialysis, even if urine output is adequate or increased. It is occasionally also used in patients with acute poisoning/drug overdose with substances that can be removed by dialysis, e.g. ethylene glycol, barbiturates, ammonia.

 Nicola Bates from the Veterinary Poisons Information Service (VPIS) discusses how to manage the dog with a sweet tooth.

In this webinar Nick Edwards covers VPIS and Animal PoisonLine (APL) and what they do, common calls to VPIS, risk assessment and the importance of questions, initial treatment options, overtreatment and undertreatment and antidotes and other treatments to stock. BSAVA Clinical Rounds are a monthly, themed, live-streamed and interactive evening of interpretation of diagnostic images, test results and management of clinical cases. The 90-minute sessions are designed to appeal to all vets regardless of the point in their career. The live sessions are available to BSAVA members only and are held on the second Monday of every month – places are on a first come first served basis. Visit our CPD calendar to reserve your place.

A 4-year-old Hamilton Stovare presented collapsed as an emergency, 24 hours after taking a large amount of homemade flapjack in the owner’s kitchen. This masked earlier poisoning with rodenticide; the diagnosis are treatment are described.