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CP (Community Practice): the VTH's service that sees appointments typical of a general small animal practice (wellness care, vaccines, bloodwork, and primary workup of any non-referred, non-emergency appointment like coughing, lumps, lameness, vomiting, diarrhea, or skin problems)
DKA: diabetic ketoacidosis; a "diabetic crisis" resulting from an underlying source of stress (such as infection or cancer) in a diabetic patient
DM: diabetes mellitus (the disease we all commonly know as "diabetes," which is different from another disease called diabetes insipidus)
PCV (packed cell volume): aka hematocrit/HCT, a test showing the % of red blood cells in the blood; usually of interest when low, indicating anemia
PU/PD: PU = polyuria (excessive volume of urination); PD = polydipsia (excessive intake of water)
rDVM: regular or referring DVM (doctor of veterinary medicine), the patient's primary care veterinarian who has referred them to the hospital or started the workup for their disease
SAIM (Small Animal Internal Medicine): the VTH's service that works up a wide variety of medical problems (metabolic disease, endocrine disease, respiratory disease, GI disease, etc.)
VTH: Veterinary Teaching Hospital
DKA: diabetic ketoacidosis; a "diabetic crisis" resulting from an underlying source of stress (such as infection or cancer) in a diabetic patient
DM: diabetes mellitus (the disease we all commonly know as "diabetes," which is different from another disease called diabetes insipidus)
PCV (packed cell volume): aka hematocrit/HCT, a test showing the % of red blood cells in the blood; usually of interest when low, indicating anemia
PU/PD: PU = polyuria (excessive volume of urination); PD = polydipsia (excessive intake of water)
rDVM: regular or referring DVM (doctor of veterinary medicine), the patient's primary care veterinarian who has referred them to the hospital or started the workup for their disease
SAIM (Small Animal Internal Medicine): the VTH's service that works up a wide variety of medical problems (metabolic disease, endocrine disease, respiratory disease, GI disease, etc.)
VTH: Veterinary Teaching Hospital
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ok I've never used this, but i'm going to suggest it anyways, it's a software called Anki, that eventually I will use, it apparently helps you remember things, but i have a feeling it wouldnt work with hard stuff! maybe there is some extremely complex acronym you can come up with :)
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