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AAFP Rounds
have been postponed until January 6. Happy Holidays everyone!
What's
considered state of the art analgesia for cats?
Join us on Sunday, January 6 at 8pm ET/ 7pm Central for an
interactive discussion to share your protocols and learn from the
panelists of the AAFP/AAHA Pain Guidelines about what is currently being
recommended as safe and effective for the alleviation and prevention of
pain in cats.
Did
you miss the November rounds?
Check out the transcript in the library for "Tips
to Improve Client Compliance for Feline Weight Loss" by
Sarah Abood, DVM, PhD
Rounds Transcript & Handout
References/Websites of Interest and Message Board Q&A
All members
are invited to attend our LIVE AAFP rounds discussions.
If you still need a VIN username and password for complimentary access,
please email Dr. Sherri Williams (wileydvm@aol.com),
with the words "AAFP Rounds" in the subject heading.
Transcripts
to all past rounds discussions are available in the library:
http://www.vin.com/Members/CE/C164/Library.htm
AAFP/AAHA
PAIN MANAGEMENT GUIDELINES AVAILABLE
Offer your
clients state-of-the-art pain management services by learning the latest
information and reviewing the
Pain Management Guidelines:
http://www.catvets.com/professionals/guidelines/publications/
Psst.... A
nice handout is available to improve your client's ability to detect signs
of pain in the Trends online issue:
http://trends.aahanet.org/eweb/images/Trends/PDFs/CatHandout.pdf
CATVETS.COM is LIVE!
Check out your new website!
http://www.catvets.com
AAFP FALL
CONFERENCE PEARLS will be found in the next issue of the printed
newsletter.
AAFP
COMMITTEE NEWS
Are you interested in
helping make the AAFP tick?
There are 3 Director positions up for election to the 2009 AAFP Board.
These are 2-year terms (expire December, 2010) and Directors are eligible
to serve up to 3 consecutive terms. For more information on
responsibilities and qualifications for the position, please contact AAFP
headquarters. Individuals interested in serving as President-Elect in 2009
(and being AAFP President in 2010) should also request information from
AAFP headquarters.
To all
Fellows members and interested AAFP members:
The Task force assigned to determine the future of the
Fellows group within the AAFP would like to know your opinions. If you
think the group is important to AAFP, think it is a dinosaur that should
go away, or have something you would like to see added to or changed in
the current system, we would love to hear from you. Please e-mail any
comments to
catdoc1@sbcglobal.net and include "Fellows
task force" in the subject line.
AAFP Recent
Graduate Nominations Requested for the AVMA Veterinary Leadership
Conference
The 2008 Veterinary Leadership Conference/House of Delegates Winter
Session will be held January 11-13 at the Renaissance Schaumburg Hotel &
Convention Center, Schaumburg, Illinois. If you are a recent graduate (6
years or less since graduation), you are eligible to be nominated to
attend the conference and have your attendance expenses covered. It is an
excellent way to see your veterinary association leadership at work and
attend workshops on current leadership topics.
For more information, please contact either Dr. Vicki Thayer, AAFP's AVMA
delegate at:
thayv@aol.com
or Gwen Stanton, AAFP Administrator at:
gstanton@association-partners.com
2008 is just around the
corner and the AAFP would like to encourage your participation and
assistance in the coming year for some of the following committees...
PR
SUBCOMMITTEE VOLUNTEER
The Guidelines PR subcommittee is in need of several more members.
Members of this subcommittee may be veterinarians, technicians or
students.
Guidelines PR promotes awareness of the AAFP guidelines with both
veterinarians and cat owners.
People with good writing skills who might have experience with the
publication process or with PR in any professional association or
community service are encouraged to respond.
Please contact Eliza Sundahl at
tsundown@everestkc.net if you would be interested in helping take the
AAFP guidelines out into the world.
CatVets.com WEBSITE CONTENT VOLUNTEER
Development of the new Feline Practitioners website
continues. Member volunteers are still needed to coordinate content for
the new Cat Health Topics area of the site. If you would like to help with
this project, please contact Dr. Kari Mundschenk
kari.mundschenk@sbcglobal.net for details.
AAFP ROUNDS and E-MEWS
VOLUNTEER
please contact Dr. Sherri Williams at:
wileydvm@aol.com
STUDENT CHAPTERS VOLUNTEER
Please contact Dr. Gerryll Hall at:
gerryll.hall@spcorp.com
AAFP/WINN SPONSORED
CLINICAL TRIAL NEEDS YOUR HELP
Evidence of
Effective Drug Delivery using Transdermal Gel Delivery Systems in Cats.
The Clinical Pharmacology Laboratory at Auburn University would like
to announce the opening of a two-year study funded by the AAFP and the
WINN Foundation entitled "Evidence of Effective Drug Delivery using
Transdermal Gel Delivery Systems in Cats." Blood samples will be requested
from feline patients receiving any of 7 drugs (amitryptylline,
buprenorphine, enrofloxacin, methimazole, metronidazole, prednisolone, and
prednisone) in either a transdermal or oral form. Study details are
available here:
http://www.vetmed.auburn.edu/index.pl/transdermal_gel_study_-_clinical_pharmacology
AAFP
STUDENTS
- A
regional director contact list should be in your email boxes soon.
AAFP
MEMBER IN THE NEWS -
Dr. Eliza Sundahl
JOURNAL ABSTRACTS OF INTEREST
Adverse events after vaccine administration in cats: 2,560 cases
(2002-2005).
JAVMA 2007 Jul 1;231(1):94-100. Moore GE, DeSantis-Kerr AC
(way to go
Andrea!), Guptill LF, Glickman NW, Lewis HB, Glickman
LT.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=17605670&dopt=AbstractPlus
WEBSITES OF
INTEREST
IN THE
NEWS
JAVMA NEWS
Researchers examine contaminants in food, deaths of pets.
http://www.avma.org/onlnews/javma/dec07/071201c.asp
AAVLD survey
found 347 cases that met diagnostic criteria for "pet food-induced
nephrotoxicity" from April 5-June 6. The cases involved 235 cats and 112
dogs, with 61 percent of the cats and 74 percent of the dogs having died.
AAFP
WEBSITE ACCESS
In
times of crisis, organizations provide information to their members as a
means to protect the public. Being able to gather information and
disseminate it to you is one of our top priorities when incidents arise.
PLEASE
review your member profile within the Member Login section and verify your
email address is correct:
http://www.aafponline.org/members/index.php
Members of
the AVMA are encouraged to do the same at:
www.avma.org/myavma
"Member
Login" information for the AAFP Online website (www.aafponline.org)
requires a username (your Last name) and a password (your AAFP member ID
#). If you have any difficulty or questions about the Member log-in,
please email
info@aafponline.org or call (800) 874-0498.
Access to
the AAFP Rounds website requires a VIN username and password (www.vin.com/AAFPRounds).
Complimentary registration for a VIN username and password is available to
our AAFP membership upon request.
Are you
making the most of your complimentary AAFP Rounds membership benefit?
A new HOW TO VIN
VIDEO (http://www.vin.com/Movies/howto/howto.htm?whichHowTo=boards)
is available to help you learn how to use and post to the message boards.
Did you know
AAFP members are eligible to receive a 10% discount off full VIN
membership? The discount is available upon request to the VIN office by
email (vingram@vin.com)
or by phone (800-700-4636).
If you don't
already have our email address,
info@aafponline.org, added to your address book please make sure to do
so. That way your spam filter will know our emails are legitimate.
Help us continue your membership benefits by making sure we can stay in
touch with you!
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Sherri Williams, MA, DVM
AAFP Communications Chair
Springfield, IL
wileydvm@aol.com
Rick J. Alampi
AAFP Executive Director
203 Towne Centre Dr.
Hillsborough, NJ
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