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  Veterinary Nurses Implementing Clinical Audits at the QMHA

  Perdi Welsh, Course Director for post-registration Certificates in Advanced Veterinary Nursing Clinical governance and associated activities, such as clinical audit to ensure quality enhancement, is now enshrined within the RCVS Codes of …
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  Osteoarthritis In Horses – Is There a New Option?

  Roger K.W. Smith, Professor of Equine Orthopaedics The RVC Equine Referral Hospital had a world-first 20 years ago, when it cultured mesenchymal stem cells from the bone marrow of a horse suffering from an overstrain injury of its superficial …
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  Dachshund Bounces Back After Being Hit by a Bike

  A miniature dachshund severely injured when run over by a bicycle made an incredible recovery after being treated and cared for at the Queen Mother Hospital for Animals (QMHA). Frida, with her scar visible months after being run over by a bike …
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  Diagnostic Imaging in Veterinary Forensic Pathology: Henny Martineau, Head of Veterinary Forensic Pathology

  The RVC has been receiving forensic pathology cases for some years and recently appointed Henny Martineau as Head of Forensic Pathology to lead the discipline at the College, with a view to developing a Centre of Excellence in Veterinary Forensics in the near future.
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  A Decade of Extracorporeal Therapy

  It is ten years since the RVC began delivering extracorporeal therapies for cats and dogs with kidney injury, immune-mediated disease and certain toxicities. More than 50 patients have received the advanced treatments, most of which would have died without it.
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  Sentinel Lymph Node Mapping – Leading the Way in Veterinary Oncology

  Sentinel lymph node (SLN) mapping is a diagnostic tool commonplace in human oncology and developing in veterinary oncology. It increases the accuracy of detection of metastatic disease whilst minimising patient morbidity.
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  Resilient Rocco’s Road to Recovery

  A three-year-old longhaired male entire Chihuahua was mauled by a large dog, leading to severe injuries, including pelvic fractures, body wall rupture, testicular avulsion and acute kidney injury. He has bounced back and is enjoying his life, thanks to the specialist teams working together at RVC Small Animal Referrals
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  The RVC Blood Donor Programme Reaches 20-Year Milestone

  The RVC Blood Donor Programme is vital to the everyday functioning of the Queen Mother Hospital for Animals. The blood products it provides allow our specialist clinical teams to help hundreds of animals every year.
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  A Week in the Cardiology Service

  With a recently expanded team, the RVC Cardiology Service is working harder to diagnose and treat cardiac diseases, ranging from complex congenital heart disease and acquired cardiomyopathies.
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  Pomeranian With IMTP Saved by Blood Donations

  Sarah Tayler, Lecturer in Small Animal Internal Medicine   When three-year-old Pomeranian Nyla came into season it lasted longer than usual. She became lethargic, lost her appetite, blotches appeared on her abdomen and she had ongoing bloody vulval …