Joining Brian and myself in our studio we are delighted to have Dr Chris Scudder join us. Chris is one of our outstanding internal medics here at the RVC and interested in all things endocrine, but we thought we’d catch up with him about one of his other passions, intravenous catheters. How much do we know about the most common intervention in small animal practice? We hope that you enjoy.
Link to the main paper we discuss:https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39238283/
To Cite this podcast as: Dom Barfield. RVC Clinical Podcast 150 Intravenous catheters with Chris Scudder. Published on Aug 1 2025
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Joining Brian and myself in our virtual studio we are delighted to have Dr Rosie Allister join us. She has kindly spoken to us before, the last time in 2021 (Podcast 124). Rosie manages the Vetlife helpline, a 24-hour support service for everyone in the UK veterinary community. Her research, based at the University of Edinburgh, looks at veterinary mental health, wellbeing at work, and veterinary suicide prevention. She has written and spoken extensively about veterinary mental health nationally and internationally. She is an expert in the transition of veterinary student to veterinarian and we thought we’d catch up on Vetlife and provide tips for new graduates on how to plan for the upcoming transition. We hope that you enjoy.
Contact vetlife:
https://www.vetlife.org.uk
Or 0303 040 2551
Links to some of Rosie’s research:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32220989/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33739493/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39395434/
To Cite this podcast as: Dom Barfield. RVC Clinical Podcast 149 Vetlife 2025 with Rosie Allister. Published on May 2 2025
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Joining Brian and myself in our virtual studio we are delighted to have Matt Ozment join us. Matt is an employment lawyer in South Carolina and is married to a vet (that is the veterinary connection). I approached Matt to ask him to talk on the podcast about contracts. Something that I’ve been asked about over the years by our graduates going into practice and thought a podcast might be the way I can ask an expert, Matt, these questions. We hope that you enjoy.
If you are in South Carolina and have a question for Matt – get in contact: matt@go-lawyers.com
To find a lawyer in the US contact your State Bar Association (e.g. in Colorado https://www.cobar.org).
To find a lawyer in the UK search the Law Society website: https://www.lawsociety.org.uk
To find a lawyer in Australia, each state/territory has its own Law Society (e.g. ACT: https://actlawsociety.asn.au/find-a-lawyer )
To find a lawyer in New Zealand search the Law Society website: https://www.lawsociety.org.nz
To find a lawyer in Canada, each province has its own Law Society (e.g. in Ontariohttps://lso.ca/home )
To Cite this podcast as: Dom Barfield. RVC Clinical Podcast 148 Contracts with Matt Ozment. Published on Mar 7 2025
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Joining Brian and myself in our actual studio we are delighted to have Dr Nekesa Morey with us. Nekesa is one of our fabulous cardiologists here at the RVC. We thought it would be a good idea to have a chat about common heart murmurs in puppies, how we can diagnose what is going on, and what treatment options are available. We hope that you enjoy.
If you are looking to send a puppy to us
https://www.rvc.ac.uk/small-animal-vet/specialist-referrals/clinical-services/veterinary-cardiology/puppy-heart-clinic
To Cite this podcast as: Dom Barfield. RVC Clinical Podcast 147 Heart murmurs in puppies with Nekesa Morey. Published on Dec 27 2024
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Joining Brian and myself in our virtual studio we are delighted to have Dr Clive Elwood with us. Clive, an RVC alumnus (his PhD and Masters in Immunology), spent 20 years in private referral practice, where he was Managing Director. He now runs his own coaching business. He decided to write the book that he wished existed on veterinary leadership, and we thought that it would be a good idea to chat to him about his take on leadership in the veterinary profession. We hope that you enjoy.
How to find Clive
https://trelliscoaching.co.uk/
Clive’s book if you are in the UK
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Leadership-Veterinary-Medicine-Clive-Elwood/dp/111974976X
Or the US https://www.wiley.com/en-br/Leadership+in+Veterinary+Medicine-p-9781119749769
Or Australia https://www.amazon.com.au/Leadership-Veterinary-Medicine-Clive-Elwood/dp/111974976X
To Cite this podcast as: Dom Barfield. RVC Clinical Podcast 146 Leadership with Clive Elwood. Published on Dec 20 2024
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Joining Brian and myself in our virtual studio we are overwhelmed to be in the company of the magnificent, internationally renowned Professor Dan Fletcher, from the College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University. Dr Fletcher with his co-chairs Dr Boller, Dr Burkitt and Program Director Ken Yagi have collated the evidence to provide the veterinary community with evidence-based guidelines for cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in dogs and cats. The original guidelines came out in 2012, and the scope of this initiative is wide and their coverage immense. Ploughing back proceeds into educational development tools, in-person training, research database, apps, and simulation training, computer programmes and of course new guidelines. Do you know what you need to know, when you need to know it? If not have a listen and then download and read the guidelines and put up the algorithm posters on your walls, and if you can take the course. It was great to talk to Prof Fletcher about this, inspirational. We hope that you enjoy.
Some websites of interest
https://recoverinitiative.org
https://learning.acvecc.org/
https://www.vetsim.org/open-vetsim
The guidelines
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14764431/2024/34/S1
We will be running some RECOVER rescuer workshops at the RVC next year.
https://cpd.rvc.ac.uk/cpd-courses/recover-certification-workshopWorkshops
globally are listed elsewhere on the RECOVER website
https://recoverinitiative.org/certification-workshops/
To Cite this podcast as: Dom Barfield. RVC Clinical Podcast 145 RECOVER update 2024 CPR guidelines with Dan Fletcher. Published on Dec 13 2024 If you have any comments about this podcast, please get in touch: email dbarfield@rvc.ac.uk; or podcast@rvc.ac.uk or Instagram @rvcclinicalpodcast. We would greatly appreciate your time to rate us on Apple podcast, Acast or Spotify and kindly write us a review.
Joining Brian and myself in our virtual studio we are delighted to have Dr Aoife Ryan, one of our amazing lecturers in our Anaesthesia and Analgesia Team here at the RVC. Aoife had recently published a paper looking at the environmental impact, carbon emissions, of a routine surgical procedure. It is good to consider how we can reduce our carbon footprint personally and professionally and Aoife provides some take home messages around your anaestheised patient.
We hope that you enjoy.
Some websites of interest
https://vetsustain.org
https://www.bva.co.uk/take-action/green-team-vet/
The paper we talk about
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39551688/
To Cite this podcast as: Dom Barfield. RVC Clinical Podcast 144 Anaesthesia sustainability with Aoife Ryan. Published on Dec 6 2024
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Joining Brian and myself in our studio we are delighted to have Dr Sarah Tayler, one of our fabulous lecturers and Dr Jodie Green, one of our amazing residents both in our Small Animal Internal Medicine team here at the RVC. We thought it was time to catch up about Feline Infectious Peritonitis (FIP), it has been a couple of years and we are understanding a little more about the therapies that we have, trying to find out why some patients don’t respond to therapy (going from a nearly 100% mortality to 20% and we are asking questions about these 20% - how times change quickly). We have a little more experience now in using these drugs in the UK, built on information from our Australian colleagues, and now they are available in the USA. We hope that you enjoy.
Some websites of interest
https://bova.co.uk/resources/bova-scholars/
have webinars on FIP
https://www.rvc.ac.uk/small-animal-vet/news/successful-fip-treatment-with-remdesivir
Some papers of interest
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37766254/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37548535/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36002137/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37403259/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37732386/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37551843/
To Cite this podcast as: Dom Barfield. RVC Clinical Podcast 143 Feline Infectious Peritonitis 2024 with Sarah Tayler and Jodie Green. Published on Jun 28 2024 If you have any comments about this podcast, please get in touch: email dbarfield@rvc.ac.uk; or podcast@rvc.ac.uk or Instagram @rvcclinicalpodcast. We would greatly appreciate your time to rate us on Apple podcast, Acast or Spotify and kindly write us a review.
Joining Brian and myself in our virtual studio we are joined by the fantastic Richard Sparrow, Staff Clinician in Internal Medicine here at the RVC. Richard recently published a paper looking at relapse rates in immune mediated diseases (immune mediated haemolytic anaemia, immune mediated thrombocytopenia and immune mediated polyarthritis) in dogs and we thought to use this as a sounding board for a conversation about this topic, how to treat and taper immunosuppressive drugs and what do we do about ongoing preventative healthcare, such as vaccination. We hope that you enjoy.
Reference:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jvim.17004
To Cite this podcast as: Dom Barfield. RVC Clinical Podcast 142 Relapse of dogs with immune mediated disease with Richard Sparrow. Published on May 17 2024
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Joining Brian and myself in our studio (three times a charm) we are delighted to speak to Nicola Ho, Lecturer in Anaesthesia and Analgesia here at the RVC. Nicola, with her anaesthesia colleagues, sent out a questionnaire to those anaesthesia vets, nurses and technicians to find out how sleep and fatigue affected them. It is an interesting and pertinent topic when most of us have roles in which we need to work shift work and/or be on call and how that might affect us, and the patients we look after. It might not have answers though a space to start or continue the conversation to think about what you can do to make it better where you are for you and your team. We hope that you enjoy.
Some references:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37142463/
To Cite this podcast as: Dom Barfield. RVC Clinical Podcast 141 Sleep, fatigue and mental health with Nicola Ho. Published on Dec 22 2023 If you have any comments about this podcast, please get in touch: email podcast@rvc.ac.uk or follow us on instagram @rvcclinicalpodcast. We would greatly appreciate your time to rate us on Apple podcast, podbean or Acast and kindly write us a review.
Joining Brian and myself in our studio (again, that is two in a row) we delighted to speak to Chris Scudder, Senior Lecturer in Internal Medicine and Co-Head of the Internal Medicine Team here at the RVC. There has been a couple of new drugs on the market one in the USA (bexagliflozin) and one in the UK (velagliflozin) both SGLT-2 inhibitors, oral hypoglycaemic agents to be used in newly diagnosed diabetic cats. We thought we’d chat to Chris about the information that is out there about these agents, how they can be used and what questions we have about their use. He recently spoke to our ECC team about euglycaemic diabetic ketoacidosis (eDKA) and I was intrigued. We hope that you enjoy.
Some references:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37148170/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34975223/
There is an abstract on page 2512 here
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jvim.16559
To Cite this podcast as: Dom Barfield. RVC Clinical Podcast 140 Oral hypoglycaemic drugs for diabetic cats with Chris Scudder. Published on Dec 15 2023
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Joining Brian and myself in our studio (yes that is right we are back) we are delighted to speak to Lynda Rutherford, Senior Lecturer in Soft Tissue Surgery and Head of Soft Tissue Surgery here at the RVC. I thought we’d continue the theme of the last podcast on feline urethral obstruction and speak to a surgeon about this subject, really what you can do if you can’t place a urethral catheter (is there a stone that you can’t hydro-pulse, unlikely) but maybe there is a urethral tear (traumatic or iatrogenic). Lynda kindly spoke to us about BOAS previously and it is always good to catch up. Lynda gave a talk to the hospital about on this topic and thought it would be good to share with a wider audience, we hope that you enjoy.
Some references:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21515222/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35363097/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17501659/
To Cite this podcast as: Dom Barfield. RVC Clinical Podcast 139 Lower urinary tract surgerywith Lynda Rutherford. Published on Dec 8 2023
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Joining Brian and myself in our virtual studio we are delighted to speak to Professor Edward Cooper, Section Head of Small Animal Emergency and Critical Care at The Ohio State University. I thought we’d continue the theme of the last podcast on feline urethral obstruction and speak to an international authority on the subject, who has been trying to answer some fundamental questions about this topic. He kindly returned my email and spoke to us, despite technical issues he was incredibly patient. Prof Cooper is clearly passionate about this topic and it was great to talk, we hope that you enjoy.
Link to Prof Cooper’s bio: https://vet.osu.edu/cooper-edward
Some references:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21118011/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31250535/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31840942/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36779411/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33620246/
To Cite this podcast as: Dom Barfield. RVC Clinical Podcast 138 Feline Urethral Obstruction with Edward Cooper. Published on April 28 2023
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Joining Brian and myself in our virtual studio (had to dust off the microphone, apologies for that) we are delighted to have Dr Dave Beeston, one of our final year residents in Emergency and Critical Care, here at the RVC. Dave has many interests and enthusiasm for a variety of ECC topics and is no stranger to this podcast regarding his own career journey, though we thought we'd talk to him about one of his research papers, regarding the occurrence and clinical management of urethral obstruction in male cats, a vetcompass study looking at cats in primary care in the UK. We hope that you enjoy.
The paper discussed: Beeston, D., Humm, K., Church, D.B., Brodbelt, D. and O'Neill, D.G., 2022. Occurrence and clinical management of urethral obstruction in male cats under primary veterinary care in the United Kingdom in 2016. Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine, 36(2), pp.599-608. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35199370/
To Cite this podcast as: Dom Barfield. RVC Clinical Podcast 137
Urethral obstruction management in primary care with David Beeston. Published on April 14 2023 If you have any comments about this podcast, please get in touch: email dbarfield@rvc.ac.uk; tweet @dombarfield. We would greatly appreciate your time to rate us on Apple podcast, podbean or Acast and kindly write us a review.
Joining Brian and myself in our virtual studio we are delighted to have Dr Emily Hall, one of our lecturers in Veterinary Education here at the RVC. Emily has been working with the VetCompass group looking at Heat Related Illness in the UK and we thought we'd talk to her to about her research in this field and the questions that left unanswered. We hope that you enjoy.
Emily has her own blog on this topic too, where you can find links to the papers. http://heatstroke.dog/
There is even an infographic: https://www.rvc.ac.uk/Media/Default/VetCompass/210324%20EH%20Heat%20Stroke%20infographic.pdf
And Congress abstract recordings to watch: https://www.rvc.ac.uk/vetcompass/audio-visual-resources/conference-presentations
Some references of interest:
Hall, Hall, E. J., Carter, A. J., & O’Neill, D. G. (2020). Incidence and risk factors for heat related illness (heatstroke) in UK dogs under primary veterinary care in 2016. Scientific Reports, 10(1), 9128. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-66015-8
Hall, E. J., Carter, A. J., & O’Neill, D. G. (2020). Dogs Don’t Die Just in Hot Cars—Exertional Heat-Related Illness (Heatstroke) Is a Greater Threat to UK Dogs. Animals, 10(8), 1324. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani10081324
Hall, E. J., Carter, A. J., Bradbury, J., Barfield, D., & O’Neill, D. G. (2021). Proposing the VetCompass clinical grading tool for heat-related illness in dogs. Scientific Reports, 11(1), 6828. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-86235-w
E. J., Carter, A. J., Chico, G., Bradbury, J., Gentle, L. K., Barfield, D., & O’Neill, D. G. (2022). Risk Factors for Severe and Fatal Heat-Related Illness in UK Dogs—A VetCompass Study. Veterinary Sciences, 9(5), 231. https://doi.org/10.3390/vetsci9050231
Carter, A. J., & Hall, E. J. (2018). Investigating factors affecting the body temperature of dogs competing in cross country (canicross) races in the UK. Journal of Thermal Biology, 72, 33–38. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtherbio.2017.12.006
To Cite this podcast as: Dom Barfield. RVC Clinical Podcast 136 Heat Related Illness with Emily Hall. Published on November 18 2022
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Joining Brian and myself in our virtual studio we are delighted to have Dr Rosanne Jepson, Associate Professor in Internal Medicine here at the RVC. Rosanne has many research and clinical interests, though she has been steering our antimicrobial stewardship in our hospital for many years. It is World Antimicrobial Awareness week 18-24 November. We talk about what we are doing and asking our clients and hopefully give you some ideas on what you can do and how you and your teams can participate in this One Health initiative. We hope that you enjoy.
WHO https://www.who.int/campaigns/world-antimicrobial-awareness-week/2022
RCVS Knowledge https://knowledge.rcvs.org.uk/amr/antibiotic-amnesty/Which has the RUMA (Responsible Use of Medicines Alliance) questionnaire link for clients.
Some papers of interest:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33405979/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25721619/
To Cite this podcast as: Dom Barfield. RVC Clinical Podcast 135 Antimicrobial Awareness Week with Rosanne Jepson. Published on November 11 2022
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Joining Brian and myself in our virtual studio we are delighted to have Dr Sara Lawrence-Mills, one of our fabulous residents in Anaesthesia and Analgesia here at the RVC. Sara has taken an interest into the endothelial glycocalyx and we thought we'd talk to her to find out why. We hope that you enjoy.
Some references of interest:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35654338/
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fvets.2021.661660/full
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22290457/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32067360/
To Cite this podcast as: Dom Barfield. RVC Clinical Podcast 134 Endothelial glycocalyx with Sara Lawrence-Mills. Published on September 30 2022
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Joining Brian and myself in our virtual studio (although again I crept into the studio) we are delighted to have Dr Jack Lawson, one of our fabulous lecturers in Internal Medicine here at the RVC. We talk to him about canine mast cell tumours. Current recommendations and what is new. We hope that you enjoy.
The review paper we discuss, further references are in the article:https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34428941/
To Cite this podcast as: Dom Barfield. RVC Clinical Podcast 133 Chronic kidney disease and hypertension in cats with Jack Lawson. Published on May 13 2022
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Joining Brian and myself in our virtual studio (although I was actually in the studio by myself) we are delighted to have Dr Andy Yale, one of our fabulous lecturers in Oncology (congratulations too on passing your board examinations this year and he is now an EBVS® European Veterinary Specialist in Small Animal Oncology). We talk to him about canine mast cell tumours. Current recommendations and what is new. We hope that you enjoy. Some papers of interest (there are lots more)
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32542733/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34977208/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34513966/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34671978/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33724647/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34513966/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33222871/
To Cite this podcast as: Dom Barfield. RVC Clinical Podcast 132 Canine Cutaneous Mast Cell Tumour with Andy Yale. Published on May 6 2022 If you have any comments about this podcast, please get in touch: email dbarfield@rvc.ac.uk; tweet @dombarfield. We would greatly appreciate your time to rate us on Apple podcast or Acast and kindly write us a review.
In our virtual studio joining myself and Brian we are delighted to have Dr Sarah Tayler, one of our fabulous staff clinicians and Dr Jodie Green, one of our amazing residents both in our Small Animal Internal Medicine team here at the RVC. We talk to them both about Feline Infectious Peritonitis and the game changing new treatments available. We have only just begun using these new drugs in the UK and it is incredibly promising so far. We hope that you enjoy.
Some websites of interest
https://bova.co.uk/resources/bova-scholars/ have webinars on FIP
https://www.rvc.ac.uk/small-animal-vet/news/successful-fip-treatment-with-remdesivir
Some papers of interest
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32441826/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30755068/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29778200/
To Cite this podcast as: Dom Barfield. RVC Clinical Podcast 131 Feline Infectious Peritonitis with Sarah Tayler and Jodie Green. Published on Feb 4 2022
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