Podcast Summary:
In this episode, I speak to Dr Thomas Donnelly on how to apply advanced clinical reasoning to exotic species. We discuss the different types of clinical reasoning and discuss how to effectively use the intuitive and analytical diagnostic approaches. We also talk through several medical scenarios where Dr Donnelly shows us how he effectively applies clinical reasoning to his exotic pet cases.
Dr Thomas Donnelly is a Diplomate of the American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine, a Diplomate of the American Board of Veterinary Practitioners in Exotic Companion Mammals and a Diplomate of the European College of Zoological Medicine in Small Mammals. He is currently the Co-Head of the Exotic Animal Service and a Research Professor at the French National Veterinary School in Alfort. Dr Donnelly has published many journal publications and has been the author of several chapters in the book: Ferrets, Rabbits and Rodents: Clinical Medicine and Surgery, as well as the co-editor of the book: Veterinary Clinical Adviser: Birds and Exotic Pets. He is also one of the Exotic medicine consultants on VIN.
Podcast notes:
8.17 What is clinical reasoning?
11.50 When to use intuitive and analytical reasoning
18.37 Where vets go wrong with clinical reasoning
22.25 What you can do when you are faced with multiple problems
23.39 What you should do when you only identify non-specific problems
35.09 Case: Polycythaemia vera in a rabbit
40.03 How to do an effective literature search
42.17 Case: Pituitary tumour in a rat
49.50 How to correctly collect samples from masses
50.55 What to do when there is limited diagnostic information
56.57 Case: Urolithiasis in small mammals
Links & Resources:
- Clinical Veterinary Advisor: Birds and Exotic Pets – Dr Jorg Mayer, Dr Thomas Donnelly
- Animal Medical Center
- Tufts Cumming School of Veterinary Medicine
- Regina Coeli language school
- VIN
- CAB Literature search
- Scopus
- Pubmed
- Minnesota Urolith Center
- Ferrets, Rabbits and Rodents: Clinical Medicine and Surgery, fourth edition (AKA The Pink Book) – Dr James Carpenter, Dr Katherine Quesenberry, Dr Christoph Mans, Dr Connie Orcutt
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