Palliative care for nasal cancer patientsDecember 16, 2024Learn how you can help alleviate pain and discomfort, enhance quality of life, and provide emotional support both for your cancer patients and their owners through the integration of palliative care in the practice.
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VPN Plus+ ExclusiveEssential Hospice and Palliative Care Strategies for Veterinary ProfessionalsSeptember 4, 2024In this session: This presentation will help provide veterinary professionals with the essential tools and insights needed for navigating the delicate landscape of end-of-life scenarios. Tyler Carmack, DVM, CVA, CVFT, CHPV, examines the nuances of the hospice and palliative care philosophy, offering the expansion of this component of care. It reviews communication techniques that go beyond the clinical, fostering empathy and forging lasting bonds with families facing difficult decisions.
VPN Plus+ ExclusiveTech Talk: Ensuring cat caregivers have veterinary supportJuly 17, 2024By Jamie Rauscher, LVTThe main goal of caregiver education in feline hospice and palliative care is for the caregiver to have a clear understanding of all diagnostic and treatment options to ensure the cat’s comfort, as well as the expected trajectory of the cat’s disease and the prognosis.
'Tailored approach' central to new feline hospice and palliative care guidelinesOctober 3, 2023The 2023 AAFP/IAAHPC Feline Hospice and Palliative Care Guidelines emphasize empathy, addressing patient needs, and communication in caring for cats with long-term or life-limiting diseases.
VPN Plus+ ExclusiveDiagnosing cancer cases in general practice – 'Where do I start?'April 21, 2023Like most medical cases, a systematic approach to diagnosis and treatment is the best place to start. You do not need to know details of prognosis and survival times of every type of cancer to come up with a good diagnostic plan and starting point with your clients.
VPN Plus+ ExclusiveCareer and entrepreneurial opportunities for veterinary nursesMarch 12, 2021Sometimes we need to watch others reach for their full potential and break out of the box in order to realize this same opportunity exists for us. It exists for all veterinary nurses, too. The box veterinary medicine has created is an invisible and false narrative, and our opportunities are only truly limited by our imagination. I’ve included a few examples of ways to enrich veterinary nurse careers, subsequently boosting the quality of veterinary medicine.
Could cannabis play a role in geriatric, palliative veterinary care?January 27, 2021In geriatric practice and palliative medicine, we can see a range of medical conditions, often times with multiple ailments coexisting in the same patient.
Why palliative care for pets is so importantJune 13, 2016Medical advances and the ever-changing dynamics of the human-animal bond are combining to make palliative pet care even more important today.
