Approach to avian and reptile clinical pathology

Sue has had a long term interest in avian and reptile medicine as well as clinical pathology and understands the challenges that these species can present in general practice. Achieving good diagnostic samples can be challenging in some species, whether limited by size or demeanour of patient or by the limitations of running samples on commonly available analysers.

In this seminar, Sue will present an approach to the individual sick patient including suitable sites and volumes of sample collection, manual and automatic analysis methods, and a guide to interpretation of results. The fundamentals of faecal evaluation, haematology and biochemistry will be discussed including common issues with sample collection, dealing with small samples, artefacts and the challenge of identifying suitable reference intervals.

Recording from 4 September 2019