Snake envenomation is a common reason for presentation of dogs and cats to Australian veterinary clinics, yet diagnosis and treatment continue to be challenging in some cases. Fortunately there has been an explosion of veterinary research in recent years, providing us with more evidence than ever to guide our patient management. 

The automatic cell blood count (CBC) should be always performed together with the microscopic blood smear evaluation. The combined interpretation of the hematological laboratory data results with the morphological appearance of cells can help to improve the diagnostic skills and shorten the differential list. This webinar is designed to provide insights about common morphological changes of erythrocytes, leucocytes and platelets combined with interpretation of cell blood count changes; e.g. anaemia, inflammatory leucogram, stress leucogram, thrombocytosis and thrombocytopenia.

This webinar will present the approach to the neurological patient and this inevitably includes performing a full neurological examination. Although this often appears as a daunting task, it is quicker than we think and we do perform many parts of this examination during our daily consults. We will therefore try to review the key steps of the examination, what information they bring and how to exploit the information to localise the origin of the problem. The key questions we will address are: (i) has my patient got a neurological condition? And if so (ii) where is the lesion? The key steps to answer these two questions involve: (i) distant examination; (iii) examination of the postural reactions; (iii) testing spinal reflexes; (iv) testing cranial nerves. Once this is done, I will show how to combine the information to localise the lesion. Rather than insisting on the anatomy, I will give you tips and my take on this examination.