Poster abstracts

EVECC Poster abstracts original studies

1. ACCURACY OF THE HEMOCUE® WBC SYSTEM IN PERFORMING TOTAL WHITE BLOOD CELL COUNTS IN DOGS	2. COMPARISON BETWEEN EXTERNAL JUGULAR VEIN DIAMETER, AND MORPHOLOGIC AND PHYSIOLOGIC VARIABLES IN DOGS TOWARDS DEVELOPING AN EXTERNAL JUGULAR VEIN COLLAPSIBILITY INDEX FOR HEALTHY DOGS	3. COMPARISON OF A METHADONE CONTINOUS RATE INFUSION (CRI) WITH A FENTANYL CRI FOR PERIOPERATIVE ANALGESIA IN DOGS WITH INTERVERTEBRAL DISC DISEASE	4. IMPORTANCE OF AN EXTENDED SCREENING PANEL IN FELINE BLOOD DONORS

5. LEUKOREDUCTION EFFECT ON THE HAEMOLYSIS OF CANINE PACKED RED BLOOD CELLS UNITS	6. MEASUREMENT OF SERUM HEPCIDIN IN SEPTIC CANINE PATIENTS – PRELIMINARY RESULTS	7. PLASMA IONIZED MAGNESIUM IN HORSES WITH SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME (SIRS)	8. RESPONSE OF THE VCM VET VISCOELASTIC TESTING MONITOR TO VETERINARY ENVIRONMENTAL SIMULATION CHALLENGES

9. SONOGRAPHIC ASSESSMENT OF CAUDAL VENA CAVA FOR VOLUME ESTIMATION IN CATS DURING BLOOD DONATION	10. URINARY NEUTROPHIL GELATINASE-ASSOCIATED LIPOCALIN (UNGAL): EARLY BIOMARKER OF ACUTE KIDNEY INJURY IN DOGS WITH ACUTE PANCREATITIS?	11. URINE GLUCOSE CONCENTRATION: A USEFUL PARAMETER AS A SURROGATE FOR GLYCAEMIA ON THE FIRST DAY OF LIFE IN CANINE NEONATES	12. UTILITY OF THE ULTRASONOGRAPHIC MEASUREMENT OF CAUDAL VENA CAVA ON AORTA RATIO FOR THE DIAGNOSIS AND THE THERAPEUTIC FOLLOW-UP OF NATURALLY-OCCURRING HYPOVOLEMIC SHOCK IN DOGS

13. EVALUATION OF HYALURONIC ACID AS A MARKER OF GLYCOCALYX DEGRADATION IN DOGS WITH SEPTIC PERITONITIS

EVECC Poster abstracts case reports

1. ACUTE, FULMINANT HEPATIC AND RENAL FAILURE AND SUBSEQUENT DEATH FOLLOWING AMANITA PHALLOIDES INGESTION IN A 5-MONTH-OLD KITTEN	2. DIRECT AND INDIRECT MONITORING OF INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE DURING HYPEROSMOLAR THERAPY IN A DOG: A CASE REPORT	3. ECHIS COLORATUS ENVENOMATION IN A DOG, CLINICAL, HEMOSTATIC AND THROMBOELATOMETRIC FINDINGS AND TREATMENT	4. FIRST USE OF A NOVEL HEMOADSORPTION DEVICE (VETRESQ®) AS AN ADJUNCT TO RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF A DOG WITH LEPTOSPIROSIS

5. GASTRIC DILATION AND VOLVULUS AND SPLENIC TORSION IN A SIAMESE CAT	6. IMMUNOADSORPTION IN A DOG WITH SEVERE IMMUNE MEDIATED HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA	7. MULTIPLE TREATMNET MODALITIES, INCLUDING THERAPEUTIC PLASMA EXCHANGE IN A DOG WITH IMMUNE MEDIATED THROMBOCYTOPENIA.	8. SUCCESSFUL MANAGEMENT OF TWO POLYTRAUMATIZED KITTEN ACCIDENTALLY TRAPPED IN FRONT-LOAD WASHING MACHINES

9. THERAPEUTIC PLASMA EXCHANGE FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF IMMUNE MEDIATED VASCULITIS SUSPECTED TO BE CAUSED BY HUMAN ALBUMIN IN A DOG	10. USING THE EXTERNAL JUGULAR VEIN COLLAPSIBILITY INDEX AS AN INDICATOR FOR REESTABLISHMENT OF NORMOVOLEMIA IN A HYPOTENSIVE DOG – A CASE REPORT

VECCUS abstracts

1. Learning curve of novice sonographers to answer binary lung ultrasound questions in companion animals	2. Evaluation of the utility of point-of-care ultrasound in detecting ureteral obstruction in cats	3. Pilot study on caudal vena cava size and caudal vena cava to aortic ratio at the right paralumbar view in healthy Belgian Blue Calves	4. Comparison of thoracic point of care ultrasound and radiographic findings as well as clinical evolution and C Reactive Protein concentrations in dogs treated for aspiration pneumonia

5. Evaluation of point-of-care ultrasound performed by non-cardiologists for subjective assessment of cardiac chambers size in dogs presented to the cardiology service	6. The use of veterinary point of care ultrasound by veterinarians: a nationwide Canadian survey	7. Comparison of text versus video teaching strategies for pleural and lung ultrasound learning in a veterinary student population	8. Veterinary point of care ultrasound probe orientation for detection of pleural effusion in dog cadavers by novice sonographers: a pilot study