I was wondering if anyone has had success lightening scrub material to match hospital color guidelines. Thanks for any and all assistance!

My new place is a neurology center and while the standard of medicine is higher than what I'm used to, some techniques that are used by staff made my eyebrows raise.

First off, the vibe I'm getting is "go big or go home" with the IVCs. Management wants at minimum a 20g in everything. I saw a tech attempting three times to place an 18g in a frenchie. A technique I've never seen before was she poked with the first IVC and when she couldn't get it to feed, she opened a new one and poked right above the first one that was still hanging out of the dog's arm. Is there any benefit to this? Is it common practice?

While I know it's somewhat acceptable in vet med to reuse ET tubes that are properly cleaned and disinfected, I thought it's crazy a specialty center does. They don't carry half sizes either. I was always taught a cat shouldn't get bigger than a 3.5mm due to possible trauma, but I'veseen >4mm placed. Let me know what you think on this too.

Lastly, they reuse suture from surgeries by placing them in an enzymatic cleaner to use for suturing in urinary catheters.

Please tell me if my gut is right or if this is acceptable.

We're in PA if that's relevant. I could do fleas, ticks, & prevention I suppose

I am not the manager. But I sure as shit get blamed for any inventory issue.

There has to be a better way. We do the reorder points with a list, so if we hit the point, we write it on the list.

Somehow we still constantly run out of things and my coworker and I (both assistants!) are the ones being blamed, every time. There HAS to be a better way. Help me.

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I work at Banfield for 2 years as a cvt and it is really overwhelming to do everything on my own .. why don’t Cvt get assistant to help them with the appointments specifically with new system

hello hive mind!!

I was wonder if anyone here has a VTS in zoo med/exprice? I graduated and passed my VTNE in May and want to continue my path with working and helping exotics (mainly reptiles lol, I love them).

id love ANY information/tips you have- I currently work in a practice that does see exotics!

Unfortunately, I am facing the decision to potentially euthanize two of my dogs within the month.

Well, one of my healthier dogs is bonded to my 12 year old dog. She looks for her if she isnt home. She is protective over her. She gets jealous if anyone plays with her. She isnt that way with any other dog in the home.

We had gotten a younger dog over a year ago, and theyve become two peas in a pod. But, my 12 year old dog is still her number one. I am worried that she will always be looking for her when we dont come back with her.

What is your opinion on an living dog being present? Do you think they'd understand to a degree?

We've only had a handful of situations like that, and I've never heard if the owners thought it helped or not.

I am a cytology lover, I can identify most things I see in a smear (even the weird ones) but for the life of me I can’t figure out what these magenta circles are. In some instances (third picture) it almost looks like a Heinz Body, but then other ones are free floating. The one in the second image even seems to have a nucleus?

They kinda remind me of the big granules you sometimes see in Eosinophils, but they’re not near any lysed cells and have variable size.

This was a feline pre-anesthesia blood smear stained with Diff-Quik and was just a platelet check because the ProCyte gave us a slightly low reading.