Vet Lit minis
Vet Lit minis
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Keeping you up to date with veterinary literature. This journal club podcast is focused on small animal topics, covering important, recent literature and presenting it in a digestible format. It is brought to you by VetLit.org and the team: Simon Cook, Chris Scudder, Abbe Crawford, Matteo Rossanese and Kieran Borgeat.
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Focuses on key veterinary topics, illustrated through recent studies and practical implications, with episodes covering antimicrobial stewardship, antibiotic prescription lengths in pneumonia cases, IV catheter complications, and transfusion reactions, highlighting specific case studies for veterinarian education.
Stay up to date with the latest small animal veterinary research.
In VetLit minis, ECC specialist Simon Cook and the VetLit team sit down with authors of recent studies for informal conversations about new research and how it can be applied in practice.
Combining published evidence with the authors’ clinical experience, we look for insights that extend beyond the paper – helping busy clinicians make sense of the evidence and apply it in everyday cases.
Produced by VetLit.org and hosted by Simon Cook, Chris Scudder, Abbe Crawford, Matteo Rossanese, and Kieran Borgeat. Join us as we work to make veterinary literature more accessible – and more accessed.
When to use, or rather, when not to use any peri-operative antimicrobials at all.
Here we discuss the ENOVAT guidelines on surgical antimicrobial prophylaxis. There is a huge capacity for impact here by following and disseminating these guidelines.
If you’re on board already, listen and spread the word.
If you’re not converted yet, listen in and see what you think.
At the end Fergus asks for your help in submitting cases with E. coli in their bile for an observational study he is actively recruiting for.
The guidelines:
European Network for Optimization of Veterinary Antimicrobial Therapy (ENOVAT) 2025 guidelines for surgical antimicrobial prophylaxis in dogs and cats. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jsap.70072
Resources we mentioned:
IVEG
International Veterinary Evidence Based Guidelines Centre (IVEG) – University of Copenhagen
https://iveg.ku.dk/
European Network for Optimization of Veterinary Antimicrobial Therapy (ENOVAT) guidelines for antimicrobial use in canine acute diarrhoea.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1090023324001473
ENOVAT website:
https://enovat.eu
Canine Cruciate Registry
https://ccr.rcvsknowledge.org/
Fergus Allerton e-mail address for contributing biliary tract infections to the study: [email protected]
Retrospective evaluation of surgical site infection after open splenectomies with and without perioperative prophylactic antibiotic coverage
https://www.thieme-connect.com/products/ejournals/abstract/10.1055/a-2105-3593
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