Joining Brian and myself in our studio we are delighted to have Dr Chris Scudder join us. Chris is one of our outstanding internal medics here at the RVC and interested in all things endocrine, but we thought we’d catch up with him about one of his other passions, intravenous catheters. How much do we know about the most common intervention in small animal practice? We hope that you enjoy.  

Link to the main paper we discuss:https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39238283/  

To Cite this podcast as: Dom Barfield. RVC Clinical Podcast 150 Intravenous catheters with Chris Scudder. Published on Aug 1 2025

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Joining Brian and myself in our virtual studio we are delighted to have Dr Rosie Allister join us. She has kindly spoken to us before, the last time in 2021 (Podcast 124). Rosie manages the Vetlife helpline, a 24-hour support service for everyone in the UK veterinary community.  Her research, based at the University of Edinburgh, looks at veterinary mental health, wellbeing at work, and veterinary suicide prevention. She has written and spoken extensively about veterinary mental health nationally and internationally. She is an expert in the transition of veterinary student to veterinarian and we thought we’d catch up on Vetlife and provide tips for new graduates on how to plan for the upcoming transition. We hope that you enjoy.

Contact vetlife:
https://www.vetlife.org.uk
Or 0303 040 2551  

Links to some of Rosie’s research:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32220989/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33739493/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39395434/

To Cite this podcast as: Dom Barfield. RVC Clinical Podcast 149 Vetlife 2025 with Rosie Allister. Published on May 2 2025

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Joining Brian and myself in our virtual studio we are delighted to have Matt Ozment join us. Matt is an employment lawyer in South Carolina and is married to a vet (that is the veterinary connection). I approached Matt to ask him to talk on the podcast about contracts. Something that I’ve been asked about over the years by our graduates going into practice and thought a podcast might be the way I can ask an expert, Matt, these questions. We hope that you enjoy.

If you are in South Carolina and have a question for Matt – get in contact: [email protected]
To find a lawyer in the US contact your State Bar Association (e.g. in Colorado https://www.cobar.org).
To find a lawyer in the UK search the Law Society website: https://www.lawsociety.org.uk
To find a lawyer in Australia, each state/territory has its own Law Society (e.g. ACT: https://actlawsociety.asn.au/find-a-lawyer )
To find a lawyer in New Zealand search the Law Society website: https://www.lawsociety.org.nz
To find a lawyer in Canada, each province has its own Law Society (e.g. in Ontariohttps://lso.ca/home )

To Cite this podcast as: Dom Barfield. RVC Clinical Podcast 148 Contracts with Matt Ozment. Published on Mar 7 2025 
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Joining Brian and myself in our actual studio we are delighted to have Dr Nekesa Morey with us. Nekesa is one of our fabulous cardiologists here at the RVC. We thought it would be a good idea to have a chat about common heart murmurs in puppies, how we can diagnose what is going on, and what treatment options are available. We hope that you enjoy.

If you are looking to send a puppy to us
https://www.rvc.ac.uk/small-animal-vet/specialist-referrals/clinical-services/veterinary-cardiology/puppy-heart-clinic

To Cite this podcast as: Dom Barfield. RVC Clinical Podcast 147 Heart murmurs in puppies with Nekesa Morey. Published on Dec 27 2024

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Joining Brian and myself in our virtual studio we are delighted to have Dr Clive Elwood with us. Clive, an RVC alumnus (his PhD and Masters in Immunology), spent 20 years in private referral practice, where he was Managing Director. He now runs his own coaching business. He decided to write the book that he wished existed on veterinary leadership, and we thought that it would be a good idea to chat to him about his take on leadership in the veterinary profession. We hope that you enjoy.

How to find Clive
https://trelliscoaching.co.uk/

Clive’s book if you are in the UK
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Leadership-Veterinary-Medicine-Clive-Elwood/dp/111974976X
Or the US https://www.wiley.com/en-br/Leadership+in+Veterinary+Medicine-p-9781119749769
Or Australia https://www.amazon.com.au/Leadership-Veterinary-Medicine-Clive-Elwood/dp/111974976X

To Cite this podcast as: Dom Barfield. RVC Clinical Podcast 146 Leadership with Clive Elwood. Published on Dec 20 2024

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Joining Brian and myself in our virtual studio we are overwhelmed to be in the company of the magnificent, internationally renowned Professor Dan Fletcher, from the College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University. Dr Fletcher with his co-chairs Dr Boller, Dr Burkitt and Program Director Ken Yagi have collated the evidence to provide the veterinary community with evidence-based guidelines for cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in dogs and cats. The original guidelines came out in 2012, and the scope of this initiative is wide and their coverage immense. Ploughing back proceeds into educational development tools, in-person training, research database, apps, and simulation training, computer programmes and of course new guidelines. Do you know what you need to know, when you need to know it? If not have a listen and then download and read the guidelines and put up the algorithm posters on your walls, and if you can take the course. It was great to talk to Prof Fletcher about this, inspirational. We hope that you enjoy.

Some websites of interest
https://recoverinitiative.org
https://learning.acvecc.org/
https://www.vetsim.org/open-vetsim

The guidelines
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14764431/2024/34/S1

We will be running some RECOVER rescuer workshops at the RVC next year.
https://cpd.rvc.ac.uk/cpd-courses/recover-certification-workshopWorkshops
globally are listed elsewhere on the RECOVER website
https://recoverinitiative.org/certification-workshops/

To Cite this podcast as: Dom Barfield. RVC Clinical Podcast 145 RECOVER update 2024 CPR guidelines with Dan Fletcher. Published on Dec 13 2024 If you have any comments about this podcast, please get in touch: email [email protected]; or [email protected] or Instagram @rvcclinicalpodcast. We would greatly appreciate your time to rate us on Apple podcast, Acast or Spotify and kindly write us a review.

Joining Brian and myself in our virtual studio we are delighted to have Dr Aoife Ryan, one of our amazing lecturers in our Anaesthesia and Analgesia Team here at the RVC. Aoife had recently published a paper looking at the environmental impact, carbon emissions, of a routine surgical procedure. It is good to consider how we can reduce our carbon footprint personally and professionally and Aoife provides some take home messages around your anaestheised patient.

We hope that you enjoy.

Some websites of interest
https://vetsustain.org
https://www.bva.co.uk/take-action/green-team-vet/

The paper we talk about
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39551688/

To Cite this podcast as: Dom Barfield. RVC Clinical Podcast 144 Anaesthesia sustainability with Aoife Ryan. Published on Dec 6 2024

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Joining Brian and myself in our studio we are delighted to have Dr Sarah Tayler, one of our fabulous lecturers and Dr Jodie Green, one of our amazing residents both in our Small Animal Internal Medicine team here at the RVC. We thought it was time to catch up about Feline Infectious Peritonitis (FIP), it has been a couple of years and we are understanding a little more about the therapies that we have, trying to find out why some patients don’t respond to therapy (going from a nearly 100% mortality to 20% and we are asking questions about these 20% - how times change quickly). We have a little more experience now in using these drugs in the UK, built on information from our Australian colleagues, and now they are available in the USA. We hope that you enjoy.

Some websites of interest

https://www.rvc.ac.uk/small-animal-vet/specialist-referrals/clinical-services/veterinary-internal-medicine/feline-infection-peritonitis

https://bova.co.uk/resources/bova-scholars/

have webinars on FIP

https://www.rvc.ac.uk/small-animal-vet/news/successful-fip-treatment-with-remdesivir 

Some papers of interest

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37766254/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37548535/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36002137/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37403259/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37732386/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37551843/

To Cite this podcast as: Dom Barfield. RVC Clinical Podcast 143 Feline Infectious Peritonitis 2024 with Sarah Tayler and Jodie Green. Published on Jun 28 2024 If you have any comments about this podcast, please get in touch: email [email protected]; or [email protected] or Instagram @rvcclinicalpodcast. We would greatly appreciate your time to rate us on Apple podcast, Acast or Spotify and kindly write us a review.

Joining Brian and myself in our virtual studio we are joined by the fantastic Richard Sparrow, Staff Clinician in Internal Medicine here at the RVC. Richard recently published a paper looking at relapse rates in immune mediated diseases (immune mediated haemolytic anaemia, immune mediated thrombocytopenia and immune mediated polyarthritis) in dogs and we thought to use this as a sounding board for a conversation about this topic, how to treat and taper immunosuppressive drugs and what do we do about ongoing preventative healthcare, such as vaccination. We hope that you enjoy.  

Reference: 

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jvim.17004

To Cite this podcast as: Dom Barfield. RVC Clinical Podcast 142 Relapse of dogs with immune mediated disease with Richard Sparrow. Published on May 17 2024

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Joining Brian and myself in our studio (three times a charm) we are delighted to speak to Nicola Ho, Lecturer in Anaesthesia and Analgesia here at the RVC. Nicola, with her anaesthesia colleagues, sent out a questionnaire to those anaesthesia vets, nurses and technicians to find out how sleep and fatigue affected them. It is an interesting and pertinent topic when most of us have roles in which we need to work shift work and/or be on call and how that might affect us, and the patients we look after. It might not have answers though a space to start or continue the conversation to think about what you can do to make it better where you are for you and your team. We hope that you enjoy.

Some references:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37142463/

To Cite this podcast as: Dom Barfield. RVC Clinical Podcast 141 Sleep, fatigue and mental health with Nicola Ho. Published on Dec 22 2023   If you have any comments about this podcast, please get in touch: email [email protected] or follow us on instagram @rvcclinicalpodcast. We would greatly appreciate your time to rate us on Apple podcast, podbean or Acast and kindly write us a review.