um, you are one of my fave speakers now. vet tech student here; pharmacology makes my eyes want to bleed and you made it so much better. please, make more learning videos with the exact form of narration. thank you, you are amazing; I was laughing the majority of the time which I didn't think was possible while learning more in-depth about drugs that I never fully understood but have a better understanding now
I have been listening to your lectures on repeat before my VTNE. You broke things down nicely and I would absolutely love to hear a lecture on small animal disease etc. you’re amazing and you’ve done so much for helping me understand.
Omg can I be your friend? Lol I'm in tech school currently and am using this as my pharmavology review, but I've been in the field for about 7.5 years and some of the stuff you go on rants about are killing me! 🤣
Add more videos! I love your rambling and that you have a nice, loud voice so I can listen to it in the tractor on my work days. So many have such quiet mikes and I can't hear them! You are so helpful with your info. Please do more!!! You're amazing
I love your swearing and your sound effects and how passionate you are when you speak! I totally wish we had a doctor or trainer who explains things like you do(: There are plenty of “professional” videos out there to choose from and CE lectures that people can attend… But your videos are really easy to stay focused on without getting bored! Ive been listening to your videos on my drives to work as a tech for months now! Thankyou for what you do! ❤
I got a test coming up and I just wanna say that your voice is so soothing and perfect. I’m currently trying to be a vet tech and I have a pharmacology test coming up and this vid is going to help me a lot. Thank you very much for your time and patience.🙏
Your vocabulary is what kept me from falling to sleep. Love the energy and passion you have in this lecture. You need to be an online instructor for the vtne crash course exam. I would of passed my test the first time if I had an instructor like you. Great lecture 😃😁
Omg I listened to this on my long drive to work. I absolutely love it! You could teach the dictionary and make it entertaining. I can't thank you enough!
LOVE THIS POWERPOINT. JUSt FYSA: Slide 17 says Cushings is HyPOadrenocorticism. It should be corrected to HyPER. Same with slide 19 - it's backwards. Addison's is HYPO - ADDison's is missing corticoids and they need to be ADDed.
Hahaha! May I ask which veterinary technology program you attend? I'm cracking up that instructors are linking ya'll to my videos because I say "fuck" all up in here!
They’ve been saying to stay away from Meloxicam for cats because you can easily cause severe kidney damage just to reduce post op pain. It’s encouraged to use Onsior inj and PO for 2 days after instead. But otherwise awesome presentation!
This presentation was created specifically for a non-profit high volume 501c3 non-profit veterinary clinic in New Orleans. Many of the clients that go to this hospital cannot afford the cost of Onsior, so we administer an injection of meloxicam post op for the high volume spay and neuter feline patients. It's used short term and off label. The feline meloxicam protocol is utilized in veterinary schools, university shelter medicine protocols, and Humane Alliance. As long as meloxicam is dosed appropriately and used short term in healthy cats, there is no increased risk of renal damage in feline patients. It's the *repeated* use of meloxicam in cats that cause renal damage.
Love this presentation! At 15:20 for doxycycline, wouldn’t syringe feeding water cause an animal to possibly aspirate? I work with exotics so it might be different for cats but I’m interested in how that works. Thanks again for this video!
If you just squirt a syringe of water quickly in the mouth, YES it could cause the cat to aspirate. Instead, place the syringe in the corner of the mouth and slowly push down the plunger. Giving it slowly allows the cat to realize water is in their mouth and they will swallow it. If you push it too fast they could potentially inhale without realizing water is in their mouth.
So what do you reccomend for fractious cats? Or small exotic animals ? (Instead of boxing) I'm a new tech and I'm still learning !! But my clinic boxes cats pretty frequently.
Thick leather gloves work well. Inject anesthetics IM and put them in a kennel to let it work for a few minutes. Then they should be drowsy enough to handle. Mask them until they are deep enough to intubate without resistance.
Sorry it's taken me a year to reply back! There's a BUNCH of ways to get an intramuscular injection into fractious cats! The easiest is if they are in a soft carrier; you can just roll up the carrier and get them to the front where the mesh zippered door is and give 'em an injection right through it. The second way is if the cat is in a trap or a wire crate, you can get this tool (I can't remember the name if it, but I'll look it up - I just call it the pitchfork) that has a bunch of metal rods attached to it that can slide into the trap or wire crate so you can kind of block the cat off into a corner and give an injection through the bars of the enclosure. If the cat is in a traditional hard top carrier, I put them in a room with no light on and I place a squeeze kennel (it's a small kennel that has a moving side wall) in front of their carrier. I cover the squeeze with a thick blanket, so it's pitch black in there. I place an open can of A/D up against the outside back wall of the squeeze (not in the squeeze - I don't want the cat to eat right before I sedate him, I just want him to THINK there's food in there.) I open the door to the squeeze and I open the door to the cat's carrier (with the openings up against each other so the two open carriers basically have created one enclosed carrier.) It can take upwards of 5 minutes, but the cat gets enticed by both the smell of the food and the pitch-black darkness of the squeeze kennel. They usually walk right in the squeeze and I shut the door of it behind them. Once in the squeeze, I can just pull the handles of the wall so the cat is right up against the side of the cage, then I inject him and release the wall. In rare occasions, a cat is too afraid to leave their carrier and go into the squeeze, so I will either gently poke them with a chopstick through their carrier which makes them immediately run into the squeeze and if that don't work I do a little puff of compressed air in a can (like for cleaning computers) and then run into the squeeze. There's also a whole technique to actually remove a cat with a towel from a hard top carrier, but that is waaaay too difficult to put into words. I'm gonna have to do a video on how to inject fractious cats. Feral cats are my favorite!
Starting pharmacology class in a few weeks and wanted to get used to generic/brand names as a head start. Your video is amazing! only caveat is that profanity takes away professionalism. Still going to listen like a dozen more times before class starts :)
