I reach for Cerenia because it works incredibly well and is once a day. The problem with Zofran is then my clients have to give it 2-3 times a day, and that diminishes compliance. We also tend to use very low doses at my hospital, and only have 1 larger tablet size which means that many of my smaller patients can't have it orally unless I script it out (diminished compliance). I like it for adjunctive control, same with Reglan.
Yeah, but I don't know my number =/ Never bothered to remember it because I've never had an issue accessing JAVMA. I guess it's time to be bothered.
I feel like this is a really dumb question... why don't you use Cerenia as a first choice drug in vomiting dogs with no money for rads? I didn't think Cerenia was a prokinetic (bad with a potential FB), and I thought it's inhibition of substance P could be useful in that scenario.
It used to be thought it was contraindicated in FB cases. However, that really isn't the case. The thought was you could cause a perf but dogs on cerenia may still vomit before it causes one.
Dyachei laid it out well. Change is slow for many clinicians and at my internship a lot of what we're told to do is because 'that's just the way we do it.' Like I said, I prefer using Cerenia, but not everyone I work with is comfortable making it their first line drug.
Take them back!!
Awww. I would still have tried. Most grocery stores have a "Okay, whatever, go grab one off the shelf" attitude. I've even returned salad that went brown within 24 hours without being opened before!
Priorities. Moving is always low on that list.
Also, owners are likely to give human food as treats whether you tell them it is ok or not. The trick is moderation. And that's what I tell owners. It needs to be a treat, not their food.
yes, but my point is that perhaps the dog weighed more before because they were giving 6 strips of bacon a day and now they are giving less than 1. sometimes things take baby steps. You have no idea what kind of conversations they have had.
I once had a woman tell me that she had to return the kitten she purchased from a pet store because it was FIV or FeLV positive (I can't remember which) and her vet told her to return it right away because the disease was extremely contagious AND transferable to humans
. I'm fairly certain no vet on the planet told her either of those diseases were transferable to humans.
you're probably wrong more often than you realize. As House says, everybody lies.
Discolored as in dead? Or just stained?
I think one thing to remember is that memory is a very tricky thing. The brain is kind of an dingus sometimes. So unless the client got an exact printout of everything the vet told them, they may not really remember, or the time between may have been enough to allow their brain to warp the memory a bit. It's hardly malicious in most cases but people just aren't that good at remembering stuff.
See, I guess I wouldn't necessarily yank discolored teeth (but I do have dental rads)
