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This is a transcript of a podcast featuring Sally Everitt, Elly Russell, and Julie Gibson.

This is a transcript of an interview with Danny Chambers about the Antibiotic Amnesty.

The Veterinary Early Warning Score (VEWS) can be used to identify those patients at risk of deterioration.

You can share this resource with credit to RCVS Knowledge and Belinda Andrews-Jones VTS (ECC) Dip AVN (Surg) CMgr RVN PG Dip Vet Ed MInstLM FCMI FHEA.
You should reference this resource like this: RCVS Knowledge and Andrews-Jones (2023). Veterinary Early Warning Score. [Online] Available at rcvsknowledge.org/VEWS

RCVS Knowledge Annual Report & Accounts 2022

T&C's Plowright 2023/24

This is a transcript of the conversation with Paul Stanley and Emily Parr from White Lodge Veterinary Surgery about their prospective audit to review antibiotic use in cat bite abscesses and successfully treated 86% of their patients without antibiotics without compromising patient welfare. 

Read this document to learn more information about participating in the National Audit for Small Animal Neutering (NASAN).

In this award winning case example, Leanne McLeod, RVN, from Earlswood Veterinary Hospital introduced a hypothermia audit with a focus on pre-warming patients before general anaesthesia. By introducing new protocols for the provision of passive warming from pre-medication, her team reduced the incidence of hypothermic patients from 100% to 16%.

In this award winning case example, vets Paul Stanley and Emily Parr from White Lodge Veterinary Surgery, CVS, carried out a prospective audit to review the use of antibiotics, with a focus on antibiotic use in cat bite abscesses. With the introduction of checklists and in-house CPD they were able to treat 86% of their patients successfully without antibiotics without compromising welfare.