RCVS Knowledge - Evidence-based Veterinary Medicine

Louise Buckley - Are Dogs That Are Fed from a Raised Bowl at an Increased Risk of Gastric Dilation Volvulus Compared with Floor-Fed Dogs?

Louise gives a short Audio Summary of her paper 'Are Dogs That Are Fed from a Raised Bowl at an Increased Risk of Gastric Dilation Volvulus Compared with Floor-Fed Dogs?'.
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Audio Summaries are a free resource that enables vets and vet nurses to access and digest relevant and up-to-date evidence quicker and easier! A time-saving way to make better and faster evidence-based decisions.
 
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Amanda Boag - Are Blood Lactate Levels Better Than a Crystal Ball – the Veterinary Evidence Base

Blood lactate levels are a simple and inexpensive parameter that is increasingly available to practitioners in both emergency medicine and general practice. But what does it really tell us? But does the data support that? In this session we will briefly review lactate physiology and then focus on the small animal veterinary evidence base – how has it evolved, what do we now know and where are the gaps in knowledge and potential misinterpretations that could affect our use of this clinical tool.
 
Veterinary Evidence TodayEdinburgh, 1-3 November 2016
 

Amanda Boag - Are Blood Lactate Levels Better Than a Crystal Ball – the Veterinary Evidence Base Q&A

Q&A from Amanda's talk at the Veterinary Evidence Today conference, Edinburgh November 1st, 2016.

Living Pictures

Abbie Latham, an MA History student from Kings College London discusses the Boer War correspondence of Army veterinarian Frederick Smith. Abbie transcribed the letters held by Knowledge, and in her podcast explores aspects of the letters relating to technological developments in war reporting in the nineteenth century. Abbie’s fascinating essay brings a fresh perspective and historical insight into the letters, which will be of interest to all audiences.

Ian Nicholson - Building a Multi-centre Clinical Research Facilitation Network: The ARC Experience

There is very little good-quality veterinary evidence for most of the veterinary procedures carried out every day across the world. Very few, if any, individuals have all the necessary qualities to be able to systematically produce good-quality, and relevant, clinical research on their own, in a timely manner. The Association for Veterinary Soft Tissue Surgery (AVSTS) www.avsts.org.uk is an affiliate group with the British Small Animal Veterinary Association (BSAVA), and functions as a clinical network of like-minded individuals. In 2013 AVSTS sought to create a role for itself in facilitating the production (by its members) of multi-centre clinical research of relevance to its members.
Veterinary Evidence TodayEdinburgh, 1-3 November 2016
 

Heather Moberly - Integrating Veterinary Subject Expertise With Information Literacy Expertise to Teach and Assess the Student Skills in Evidence-based Veterinary Medicine Q&A

Q&A from Heather's talk at the Veterinary Evidence Today conference, Edinburgh November 3rd, 2016.

Heather Moberly - Integrating Veterinary Subject Expertise With Information Literacy Expertise to Teach and Assess the Student Skills in Evidence-based Veterinary Medicine

A 2015 survey of veterinary educators at AVMA accredited veterinary colleges indicated use of a wide variety of teaching modalities and a broad disparity among colleges about the amount of EBVM skills taught and their place in the curriculum. Evidence in learning theory suggests that teaching the skills of EBVM requires consideration of ways to optimise the transfer of skills from the didactic or pre-clinical to the clinical setting. This talk discusses how we partnered to successfully integrate asking a clinical question, searching the literature, appraising the literature, and applying evidence to the clinical question to make a clinical recommendation.
 HM - Integrating Veterinary Subject Expertise With Information Literacy Expertise to Teach and Assess the Student Skills in Evidence-based Veterinary Medicine
 
Veterinary Evidence TodayEdinburgh, 1-3 November 2016

David Mills - Putting the Horse Before the Cart: the Ethical Case for Animal Patient Values in EBVM Q&A

Q&A from David's talk at the Veterinary Evidence Today conference, Edinburgh November 2nd, 2016.

David Mills - Putting the Horse Before the Cart: the Ethical Case for Animal Patient Values in EBVM

This talk will argue that patient values should be the central, primary and overriding consideration in both its practice and research if EBVM is to be an ethically acceptable pursuit.
 DM - Putting the Horse Before the Cart: the Ethical Case for Animal Patient Values in EBVM
Veterinary Evidence TodayEdinburgh, 1-3 November 2016
 

Hannah Doit - The Veterinary Clinical Trials Network - a Pragmatic Approach to Filling the Evidence Gaps for Veterinary Practice Q&A

Q&A from hannah's talk at the Veterinary Evidence Today conference, Edinburgh November 3, 2016.