Welcome & contents
What's inside this month's magazine,plus meet our expert contributors.
Welcome to the Summer edition of The Cube, our digital magazine dedicated to providing practical advice and insights to enhance your practice and wellbeing. This issue begins by exploring seven effective strategies to help you demonstrate the value of your veterinary services to your clients, crucial amidst the ongoing cost-of-living crisis. Sustainability takes the spotlight as Laura Binnie, Sustainability Lead at Paragon Veterinary Group, shares their sustainability success story, providing inspiration and practical tips to help you make environmentally conscious choices in your practice.
In our regular features, Jessica Marshall from VetIT dispels the myths about switching your Practice Management System (PMS). We also delve into the fascinating world of pathology with the expertise of our NationWide Laboratories team, who share some fascinating case studies and a comprehensive guide to choosing an external laboratory. Our Product Focus section includes guidance from Select Healthcare from NVS on choosing and using the right adsorbents for toxic ingestion in pets. We highlight essential heat and sun protection products to keep pets cool and safe during the hot summer months, explore the rising trend of dermocosmetics for dogs with Fur Love, and the importance of a standardised wound assessment framework with Essity. Finally, our Wellbeing section addresses the emotional challenges faced by veterinary professionals, encouraging you to strive for satisfaction rather than balance to reduce burnout and compassion fatigue.
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#1 Seven effective strategies to demonstrate the value of your veterinary services
#2 Sustainability Profile: Laura Binnie
#3 Sustainability Case Study: Paragon Vets
#4 Dispelling the myth: Why switching your PMS is worth it!
#5 What to look for when choosing an external laboratory
#6 Pathology case study: Granular cell tumour in an 8-year-old Pomeranian
#7 Pathology case study: Cystitis Glandularis in a 13-year-old female cat
#8 Effective adsorption for toxic ingestion in pets: Are you using the most suitable products?#9 Heat & sun protection#10 The rise of dermocosmetics in dogs: Do they need skin care?#11 TIME to take wound care back to basics
#12 Strive for satisfaction not balance
Find out a little bit about this issue's expert contributors.
Jess Marshall, Training & Implementation Manager, VetIT
Before joining VetIT in 2023, Jess was a Practice Manager for an equine ambulatory practice in Wiltshire so understands more than most, the importance of a smooth running practice management solution. Having left behind the busy practice life, Jess now focuses on making that practice life easier for our clients. Through providing guidance, training and general support, she works closely with practices who’ve chosen to move from another solution to our own, and she also supports new start up practices in the exciting new venture.
Dr Marvin Firth, Anatomical pathologist at NationWide Laboratories
Dr. Marvin, BVSc (Hons.), DipRCPath, DipFMS, AFHEA, MRSB, MRCVS, graduated from Liverpool in 2009. He has experience in small, large and equine practice and research on pregnancy loss in mares. He completed externships in anatomic pathology in the US and Europe and residency training at Cambridge and Surrey Universities. In 2019, he earned a Diploma in Forensic Medical Sciences and is pursuing the ACVP and RCPath board certifications, having achieved DipRCPath and ACVP Phase 1 in 2022.
Karina Fresneda, Anatomic Pathologist, NationWide Laboratories
Karina, DVM, DiplACVP, graduated from the National University of the Centre of Buenos Aires in 2000. She became a Specialist in Anatomo-histopathological Veterinary Diagnosis after two years of training. For 15 years, she taught Infectious Diseases at the same university while gaining clinical and laboratory experience in clinical pathology, cytology, and histopathology. She completed a 3-year residency in Anatomic Veterinary Pathology at the University of California, Davis. Karina also teaches courses on clinical pathology, cytology, and histopathology.
Dr Ineke Meredith, MBCh,Melanoma and Breast Surgeon, founder of Fur Love
Dr Ineke Meredith, MBCh, is a (human) general surgeon with subspecialisation in skin cancer and breast cancer and reconstruction. She works between New Zealand and Paris. In 2020, she launched Fur Love, a canine dermocosmetic company dedicated to maintenance skin care routines for dogs with canine atopic dermatitis.
#10 The rise of dermocosmetics in dogs: Do they need skin care?
Dr Amaury Briand, DVM
Dr Amaury Briand is a specialist veterinary dermatologist working at Advetia Hospital in France. He has published extensively on canine atopic dermatitis including the consensus guidelines for the multimodal management of canine atopic dermatitis.
In a pilot study, a veterinarian hospital demonstrated that with frequent use of Fur Love moisturising injections, time between systemic injections for canine atopic dermatitis could be lengthened. They have been invited to present this research at the Australian Vet Sciences Week in July 2024 and it will be published later this year also.
