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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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  Critical Care and Emergency Referrals go from Strength-to-Strength

  The RVC Emergency and Critical Service is one of the leading such centres in the world and had consistently enhanced its capacities since it was opened
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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 …
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  Cardiothoracic Surgery Team Progress

  Dan Brockman, who leads the team and is Professor of Small Animal Surgery, outlines developments in the Cardiothoracic Surgery Service, which are enabling more dogs to be treated. The RVC’s service, which was established in 2005, is the only place …
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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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  Rabbit Vaccination Concerns

  Nadene Stapleton, Veterinary Surgeon (Exotics) at the Royal Veterinary College's Beaumont Sainsbury Animal Hospital discusses the problem of animals not being vaccinated, incuding pet rabbits, which are at risk of a fatal infectious disease.
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  Rapid Referral of Horse Caught on Fence

  A horse was treated at the RVC’s Equine Referral Hospital after becoming caught up in a fence, which left barbed wire and hedge material embedded in her wounds.
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  A Precious Resource: Antimicrobial Stewardship in the Queen Mother Hospital for Animals

  Rosanne Jepson, Professor Small Animal Internal Medicine, and Tom Greensmith, Lecturer in Small Animal Emergency and Critical Care In November 2022 the Queen Mother Hospital for Animals (QMHA) participated in ‘World Antimicrobial Awareness Week’, …
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  The RVC Cancer Biobank

  The RVC Cancer Biobank aims to improve companion animal and human health, by providing a resource of high quality biospecimens for translational research that will result in cancer therapy advancements.
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  Pathology Specialist Takes on New Leadership Role

  Simon Priestnall, Professor of Veterinary Anatomic Pathology, has succeeded Ken Smith (who has become head of the Graduate School) as Head of the Department of Pathobiology and Population Sciences (PPS). We spoke to Simon about his new role and developments in diagnostic pathology at the RVC.