Dr. Michael Petty, DVM, CVPP, CVMA, CCRT, CAAPM, discusses assessing pain, communicating with clients, and improving your pain management business.
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Rick Sparks and Dave Powell from State Farm join host Steve Dale to talk about the critical role of business insurance in protecting veterinary practices, grooming businesses, dog trainers, and other pet professionals. They discuss the importance of close contact with your insurance agent, how insurance values are determined, and more. State Farm is one of the leading insurers in the United States and is the only insurance company in the United States to not discriminate by dog breed.
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Greg Taylor, CEO of Mason Company, discusses how veterinary clinics, shelters, and pet boarding facilities can incorporate Fear Free elements into their animal housing.
Dr. Marty Becker, founder and CEO of Fear Free, discusses why he started Fear Free, how Fear Free benefits both the professional and the pet, and the importance of emotional wellbeing.
Stress colitis is a condition that veterinarians and many pet parents are unfortunately familiar with. Dr. Leighann Daristotle joins us to discuss new research on the causes and treatments of stress colitis as well as ways you can help your clients calm their pet’s colitis.
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The management of patient pain can often fail when the onus is put onto the owner to properly medicate their pet. Our experts discuss best practices on managing pain at home with clients, particularly with feline patients who can often be difficult to manage. There is also a discussion of what acute pain does to the body of our patients.
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One of the most overlooked tenets of Fear Free is the hospital environment and how it can affect your patients’ fear, anxiety, and stress. Our roundtable of experts discuss how you can create a welcoming environment for your patients, clients, and team members.
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The roundtable of experts discuss how the implementation of Fear Free in hospitals can help reduce the stress of all members of the veterinary team and owners—and thus the FAS of the clients and patients. There is also a discussion on how to handle referral clients, especially those who may not be able to come back for repeated visits and how putting yourself in the place of the animal can help you to understand how to manage the hospital environment for them.
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Blood draws are an essential part of practicing veterinary medicine, but they can be stressful for the professional, let alone the patient. Veterinary nurse/animal trainer Laura Ryder, CPDT-KA, KPA-CTP, shows you how you can get a canine blood draw done the Fear Free way.
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Join a star-studded roundtable of Fear Free experts discussing the interaction of pain and fear, how the variability between specific patients and species can affect pain, and how management of fear can help to alleviate pain.