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Each month in NEWStat, we will highlight an article from the upcoming issue of Trends magazine. Canine atopic dermatitis (CAD) is a common and often frustrating disorder to manage for both pet owners and veterinarians. Our current approach is to wait for pets to become clinically problematic and then start managing the clinical signs (in this case, pruritus). There is another way.

Cats are truly the underdogs of veterinary medicine.  They tend to be noncompliant patients, they are misunderstood, and often keep to themselves. Behavior issues are the feline way of wanting to tell us something. But do we listen?

Once a credentialed veterinary technician has years of experience, many often wonder, what’s next? Enter the Veterinary Technician Specialist (VTS).  

How do we treat our credentialed technicians like the skilled and capable professionals they are? Three technicians talk to Central Line: The AAHA Podcast about trust, empowerment, and a true living wage.

The winner of the 2022 AAHA Veterinary Technician of the Year award is Nicole Jameson-Fritz, RVT, VTS (ECC), a technician supervisor at Canada West Veterinary Specialists in Burnaby, British Columbia.

Credentialled technicians are notoriously underutilized in most practices. All-star technicians Stephen Cital and Tasha McNerney offer tips on actions that practices can take to improve collaboration between technicians and veterinarians. 

In honor of Veterinary Receptionist Week (April 23–29) , meet Kelly Drescher Johnson, BA, M.Div ., who has found fulfillment and purpose working at the front desk — and on the frontlines — in vet med. She’s just one of the multi - talented, brilliant, dedicated veterinary receptionists to be celebrated next week and beyond.

Prosthetics for companion animals can be life-changing—if the patient and their family are a good fit. Successful adoption of a prosthesis depends on many factors, including the pet’s age, size, and personality, as well as the condition of the residual limb.

Rethinking what many veterinarians are taught, palliative care is an intentional way to improve life—whether the patient recovers or not. Kate Boatright, VMD, talks with Lynn Hendrix, DVM, CHPV, of The Palliative Vet.

In honor of World Wildlife Conservation Day (Dec. 4), Co-founder Kayla Fratt of K9 Conservationists shares how conservation detection dogs sniff out the scat of everything from Alaskan wolves to Guatemalan ocelots to help further research of their ecosystems and reveal who’s eating whom in the wild.