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This learning series with Jon Wray explores the diagnostic approach to three areas of internal medicine: Anaemia, PUO and polyarthropathies, and pleural space disease.
Following ‘how-to’ sessions and lectures on effective diagnostic sampling techniques, you’ll learn how to get the most valuable information for the patients’ diagnosis. This learning series also covers the management of pleural space disease with the placement of thoracostomy tubes.
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Topics covered:
- Anaemia in dogs and cats- diagnostic approach
- Practical demonstration and 'how-to' lecture covering bone marrow aspiration and core biopsy techniques
- Approach to pyrexia of unknown origin and polyarthopathies
- 'How-to' lecture on arthocentesis sampling
- Pleural space disease and its management
- 'How-to' lecture on the placement and management of thoracostomy tubes.
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