Picture this: you’re on the admit shift on a Tuesday morning, and your next patient is a 6-month-old Doberman for routine neutering.

Is there anything you’d be particularly worried about before surgery? Is there anything you’d discuss with the client or any tests you’d speak to your vet about?

Dobermans are a classic breed affected by von Willebrand’s disease, which is a disease that sits somewhere between thrombocytopenia and coagulopathy. If they have it, bleeding is a very real risk.

Thankfully, if we know beforehand, we can implement strategies to manage the patient’s disease and prevent severe haemorrhage. That starts with understanding von Willebrand’s disease and how it works, which is exactly what we’re covering in this episode of the Medical Nursing Podcast.

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Picture this.

You’re working the Saturday morning shift, you’re wrapping things up ready to close, and your vet brings through a patient from consults.

The patient is a 6-year-old cocker spaniel, and they’ve got a history of lethargy and exercise intolerance, progressing to melena, haematuria and bruising in the last 2 days. You examine them with the vet and find they’re dull, tachycardic and have bounding pulses.

What’s going on, and most importantly, what are you going to do about it? Well - they have some kind of bleeding disorder, and based on these signs, there’s a good chance they have very low platelet levels. 

But why does this happen, and how can we support these patients? We’ll dive into all of that in this episode.

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When I say ‘IMHA’, what comes to mind?

For me, it’s the most challenging case I have ever cared for: a patient who had such severe anaemia that their jaundice made them neurological, earning them a few days on a propofol CRI due to seizures.

Whilst not every IMHA case is like this—thankfully—these patients do need intensive nursing care and monitoring, and with this, there are many skills we can use when caring for them.

But to do that, we first need to understand IMHA, how it affects our patients, and how we manage it—exactly what we’re covering in this episode.

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Anaemia is probably the most common haematologic disease that we see - so it’s vital we understand why it occurs, how it affects our patients, and what we need to do when nursing these patients.

In episode 40 of the Medical Nursing Podcast, we’re chatting all about what causes anaema, how we classify it, what changes we see in our results, and how we treat these patients - so that you can provide the best possible nursing care.

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How often do you look at blood smears in practice - and how confident do you feel looking at what you see?

Blood smears are an excellent skill for us to learn as nurses - there’s no reason we can’t look at these, identify normal and abnormal cells, and perform cell counts! 

It’s not ‘just a vet’s job’, and the only way to feel more confident knowing what you’re looking at is to look at more and more smears and get comfortable with what’s normal and what isn’t.

But before we start looking at smears, we need to know what cells we’re looking at and refresh ourselves on what they do - exactly what we’re covering in this episode of the Medical Nursing Podcast.

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Ever seen a patient present with collapse, disorientation and seizures which resolves almost immediately? There’s a good chance they could have insulinoma - a pancreatic tumour causing sudden hypoglycaemia.

So how do we treat and nurse these patients - and what complications do we run into during and after surgery? We’re discussing it all in episode 38 of the Medical Nursing Podcast.

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Ever heard of a pheochromocytoma before?

Nor had I before I walked into referral… but in all honesty, they’re some of the riskiest cases we see. These can be scary, as they randomly secrete sometimes large volumes of adrenaline and noradrenaline - causing life-threatening tachycardia and hypertension.

They’re especially challenging cases when it comes to surgery - and we’ll chat all about why that is, and how we manage these cases, in this episode of the Medical Nursing Podcast.

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Today on the medical nursing podcast, we’re talking all about parathyroid disorders - diseases of the parathyroid gland affecting calcium balance within the body. 

Though we don’t see these as commonly as other endocrine diseases, it’s still really important we understand these disorders - especially hypoparathyroidism, which can cause life-threatening hypocalcaemia. By the end of this episode, you’ll feel more confident caring for these patients.

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If I say ‘hypothyroid’, what comes to mind? 

For me, it’s a vision of a quiet little mini schnauzer, with hair loss and awful skin - but the reality is hypothyroidism causes a LOT more changes for our patients.

To understand how we treat and nurse our hypothyroid dogs, we first need to understand hypothyroidism and its impact on our patients—which is exactly what you’ll find waiting for you in this episode of the Medical Nursing Podcast.

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We’ve all seen those older cats who come in with the body condition score of a hat-rack and an appetite that rivals ours at the end of a busy shift.

Yep, that’s right - they’re hyperthyroid.

Hyperthyroidism is the most common endocrinopathy seen in cats, so we know we will be treating and nursing these patients very commonly. But to do that effectively, we need to understand what hyperthyroidism is and how it affects our patients.

And that’s exactly what we’ll be discussing in this episode of the Medical Nursing Podcast.

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