{"title":"Opinion on the evolution of veterinary practice.","authors":"J D Jim Stowe","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9429,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Veterinary Journal-revue Veterinaire Canadienne","volume":"66 3","pages":"335-336"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11891789/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143603801","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Outcomes of total cystectomy with medical treatment in canine urothelial carcinoma of the bladder trigone.","authors":"Yosuke Takahashi, Daiki Kato, Shingo Maeda, Tomoki Motegi, Atsushi Fujita, Yuko Hashimoto, Takayuki Nakagawa, Ryohei Nishimura","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>This study aimed to evaluate outcomes and complications in dogs with urothelial carcinoma (UC) of the bladder trigone treated with total cystectomy using uretero-prepuce/vagina/cutaneous anastomosis combined with medical treatment.</p><p><strong>Animals: </strong>Twenty-one dogs.</p><p><strong>Procedure: </strong>Total cystectomy was completed as follows: The whole bladder and urethra were removed, and the ureters were anastomosed to the skin in 1 case and to the vagina in 9 cases in females. The entire bladder, prostate, urethra, and penis were removed, and the ureters were anastomosed to the prepuce in 11 males. Medical treatments were administered to all dogs after surgery.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Short-term surgical complications included diarrhea (16 dogs), acute kidney injury (2 dogs), and dehiscence of the ureterovaginal anastomosis (3 dogs). Long-term surgical and medical complications included pyelonephritis (11 dogs) and chronic kidney disease (5 dogs). In the survival analysis, median survival time from the initial diagnosis in all cases was 481 d, which was longer than the previously reported median survival time in dogs with UC involving the trigone.</p><p><strong>Conclusion and clinical relevance: </strong>Total cystectomy combined with medical treatment prolonged overall survival compared with medical, surgical, or stenting procedures in dogs with UC involving the trigone.</p>","PeriodicalId":9429,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Veterinary Journal-revue Veterinaire Canadienne","volume":"66 3","pages":"318-326"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11891803/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143603908","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Megan Campbell, Briana N M Hagen, Basem Gohar, Jeffrey Wichtel, Andria Q Jones
{"title":"Don't ignore the tough questions: A qualitative investigation into occupational stressors impacting veterinarians' mental health.","authors":"Megan Campbell, Briana N M Hagen, Basem Gohar, Jeffrey Wichtel, Andria Q Jones","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>To explore Canadian clinical veterinarians' perspectives of occupational stressors. Although extant research has emphasized quantitative reporting of workplace stressors in veterinary medicine, a qualitative approach can lend depth and context.</p><p><strong>Procedure: </strong>One-on-one interviews were conducted with 25 veterinarians at the 2016 Canadian Veterinary Medical Association Conference.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Thematic analysis revealed 9 occupational stressor themes: nature of the profession, veterinary relationships, client interactions, inadequate personal finances, early-career veterinarian strain, practice-owner strain, onus of responsibility, self-described personal characteristics, and moral stressors and moral distress. Participants also discussed perceived implications of these stressors.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>This study contributes to knowledge on veterinarians' mental health and discusses recommendations for mitigating occupational stressors to promote veterinarian well-being.</p><p><strong>Clinical relevance: </strong>Understanding the occupational stressors that clinical veterinarians experience and the effects of these occupational stressors can lead to more targeted and comprehensive strategies to support veterinarians' mental well-being in a clinical setting.</p>","PeriodicalId":9429,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Veterinary Journal-revue Veterinaire Canadienne","volume":"66 3","pages":"274-287"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11891805/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143603796","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Veterinary hospitals need to return to pre-pandemic habits to stop decreasing client numbers.","authors":"Amy Noonan, Darren Osborne","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9429,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Veterinary Journal-revue Veterinaire Canadienne","volume":"66 3","pages":"349-351"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11891794/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143603920","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jenna Feyler, Etienne Côté, Chick Weisse, Sue Dawson
{"title":"Computed tomographic angiographic study of common carotid artery anatomic relationships in the dog.","authors":"Jenna Feyler, Etienne Côté, Chick Weisse, Sue Dawson","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>To further understand spatial relationships of common carotid arteries to adjacent structures through evaluation of computed tomographic angiograms in dogs.</p><p><strong>Animals: </strong>24 pet dogs.</p><p><strong>Procedure: </strong>A database was searched for triplanar computed tomographic angiograms that included the heart base caudally and the 5th cervical vertebra cranially, without macroscopic abnormalities. Measurements included brachiocephalic trunk length, common carotid arteries' position relative to the trachea, transverse (axial) thoracic height and width, manubrium length, and length of the 7th cervical vertebra (C7).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Measurements (mean + SD) included brachiocephalic trunk length = 3.65 ± 1.34 cm (<i>n</i> = 24), mean thoracic inlet height = 6.51 ± 2.03 cm (<i>n</i> = 23), mean thoracic inlet width = 4.69 ± 1.35 cm (<i>n</i> = 20), mean manubrium length = 3.52 ± 1.15 cm (<i>n</i> = 22), and mean length of C7 = 1.93 ± 0.46 cm (<i>n</i> = 23).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Some or all measurements were feasible in all dogs. Understanding interindividual variation in spatial relationships is pertinent to differentiating normal from abnormal, for surgical planning, and possibly for elucidating the pathogenesis of certain disorders.</p><p><strong>Clinical relevance: </strong>It is possible to obtain these measurements in dogs. This technique could be applied to subgroups of dogs (<i>e.g</i>., breeds) and dogs with cervical or thoracic abnormalities.</p>","PeriodicalId":9429,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Veterinary Journal-revue Veterinaire Canadienne","volume":"66 3","pages":"298-307"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11891798/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143603622","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A call to action: Ameliorating moral distress among veterinarians.","authors":"Indu Mani","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Veterinarians have higher incidences of suicidal ideation and suicide attempts than the general population. In a survey, 1/6 veterinarians had contemplated suicide, with psychological distress a key predictor of suicidal ideation. Availability of lethal means, habituation to death, student loan debt, and other causes may contribute. Several studies have considered the individual agency of veterinarians, well-being initiatives, and selection biases in veterinary school admission. However, there is growing consideration of the moral distress, moral injury, and moral residue that afflict and destabilize veterinarians and may promote suicidal ideation and suicide. Moral distress, a historically elusive concept in veterinary medicine, is undergoing rapid delineation and analysis. This article discusses moral distress in human and veterinary healthcare professionals and how it is measured. Identification of emerging moral stressors may result in designation of broad veterinary moral distress categories and measurable moral distress scales, with an aim to predict and ameliorate moral distress. Finally, 2 tools are proposed to identify and address deleterious effects of moral distress in veterinarians.</p>","PeriodicalId":9429,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Veterinary Journal-revue Veterinaire Canadienne","volume":"66 2","pages":"196-205"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11770615/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143078143","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"Well, I think it's time………\" training on making good end-of-life decisions.","authors":"Robert Tremblay","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9429,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Veterinary Journal-revue Veterinaire Canadienne","volume":"66 2","pages":"222-225"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11770606/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143077903","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Enrico Bottero, Riccardo Ferriani, Alessio Pierini, Emanuele Mussi, Pietro Ruggiero, Simona Astorina, Davide De Lorenzi, Fabiano Raponi
{"title":"Palliative endoscopic debulking treatment of canine nasal carcinoma - 35 cases (2016 to 2019): A retrospective multicentric study.","authors":"Enrico Bottero, Riccardo Ferriani, Alessio Pierini, Emanuele Mussi, Pietro Ruggiero, Simona Astorina, Davide De Lorenzi, Fabiano Raponi","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>This retrospective study investigated the palliative efficacy of endoscopic diode laser and forceps debulking (EDLFD) for managing nasal carcinoma in dogs.</p><p><strong>Animals and procedure: </strong>Thirty-five dogs with histopathological diagnosis of nasal carcinoma that underwent EDLFD treatment were included. Descriptive statistics were reported regarding age, sex, neutering status, weight, body condition score, epistaxis, sneezing, stertor, reverse sneezing, nasal discharge, facial deformity, tumor laterality, modified Adams staging, quality of life at presentation, histotypes, EDLFD duration, adjuvant metronomic chemotherapy, and survival time.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Eighteen (51%) dogs exhibited clinical signs persisting for > 3 mo, with 80% failing to respond to previous medical treatments. Unilateral discharge was the most common complaint. Tumor location was categorized as nasal in 43% of cases (unilateral: 37% and bilateral: 6%) and as nasal and nasopharyngeal in 57%. No major intraoperative or postoperative complications were observed associated with EDLFD. The median survival time was 336 d. A clinical benefit > 50% was observed 3 mo after EDLFD.</p><p><strong>Conclusion and clinical relevance: </strong>We concluded that EDLFD was a viable palliative approach for nasal carcinoma in dogs, offering promising results in improving quality of life.</p>","PeriodicalId":9429,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Veterinary Journal-revue Veterinaire Canadienne","volume":"66 2","pages":"159-167"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11770626/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143078631","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}