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Common Terms
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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Geez, how hard can it be? Drop some poop in some water! Even Lawboy knows this!
ReplyDeleteIs coccidia or giardia really hard to find in a fecal as i've heard?
ReplyDeleteAshley: Coccidia is not too tough to find provided you are using a good technique on your fecal float. Giardia is pretty tricky to find on a flotation, but sometimes you can see the trophozoites (the creepy little swimming stage of Giardia) on a wet mount -- where you just smear a little poop on a microscope slide, add a drop of saline, and put on a cover slip. For diagnosing Giardia, they usually recommend doing both a fecal float to look for Giardia cysts, fecal wet mount to look for trophozoites, AND a snap test to pick up fecal Giardia antigen. And if you don't find Giardia on any of those, that doesn't mean they don't have it -- since it's hard to find. At that point, if Giardia fits the clinical picture and the dog's symptoms, you load 'em up with metronidazole or another antiprotozoal drug, and look for a response to treatment as a tentative diagnosis. More info than you wanted? :)
ReplyDeleteSounds good to me :) All I know is I'm not a fan of diarrhea :)
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