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Katie, one of our technicians and I just returned from "A Bridge to the Future Veterinary Conference" held in Providence, Rhode Island. It was very informative and rejuvenating! We attended lectures on pain management, anesthesia, feline liver disease as well as lectures on itchy dogs and how to approach their treatment.
  Katie
and I were also able to attend the Roger Williams Zoo
after hours as a special treat during the conference.
The Polar Bears were the hit! There were also cheetahs,
snow leopards and Moon Bears! Here are some of the pictures
we took to bring home to Mia!
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Pain Management
 Pain
is one of the hottest topics at veterinary conferences
in the last ten years. Previously, pain was viewed as
a necessary evil. Fortunately, pain care has become a
focus of veterinary research as well as daily practice.
As a result, our patients are feeling more comfortable
and are able to heal better and faster.
Here at Beverly Animal Natural Health Center, we hope to alleviate pain as best as we can as well as to treat it when it occurs in trauma cases or surgical procedures. If your pet is admitted for routine surgery, pain medication is always part of the plan and is modified according to your pet's needs. For non-routine hospitalizations, the entire staff monitors your pet to determine the best pain management for him or her. This involves careful observation of their body language as well as monitoring physical parameters such as temperature, heart rate and blood pressure. Since pain cannot be measured quantitatively, we use a number of ways to evaluate our non-verbal patients.
In
addition to in hospital use of pain medications, we
are also now able to treat patients readily at home
for causes of chronic pain such as osteoarthritis in
dogs.
Please see the article on Canine Osteoarthritis in this month's newsletter.
Attention Future Veterinarians
TUSVM Openhouse 2003
My alma mater, The Tufts University School of Veterinary
Medicine is holding it's annual Open House on Saturday,
September 6, 2003 from 10am to 3pm on the Grafton Campus.
They recently just finished major renovations to the
small animal hospital. Please visit www.tufts.edu/vet/openhouse
for more information as well as some video clip of what
they are going to offer!
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