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BEVApod Focus: Equine infectious diseases... have you caught up? With Kate Blakeman

BEVA's Junior Vice President, Kate Blakeman, talks us through the the new Infectious Diseases hub on the BEVA website. Celia Marr chairs the BEVA Equine Infectious Diseases Group, which worked on this treasure trove of resources which helps vets and nurses out in practice. There are resources for clients also, which vets and nurses can share with the touch of a button. More resources are being worked on and the hub will evolve over time to b your one-stop-shop for clinical sign radars to consensus building tools, endemic to exotic, and biosecurity to vaccines.

 

Links

1. BEVA Equine Infectious Diseases hub

BEVApod Focus: The gut microbiome, horse health and performance with Chris Proudman

This year Professor Chris Proudman published the first paper to demonstrate associations between a foal’s gut microbiome and its future athletic performance and its future respiratory health. The emerging fields of the "omics" has been one of the most exciting branches of science in recent years. Whilst we're a little way off understanding exactly how to capitalise on this in practice, it's already evident that interventions such as antibiotics and probiotics could potentially have far-reaching impacts on future health and performance.

 

Links

• Early-life gut bacterial community structure predicts disease risk and athletic performance in horses bred for racing (Leng, J., Moller-Levet, C., Mansergh, R.I. et al. 2024)

• Horse Microbiome Research Group

• Alborada Well Foal Study

• The ALBORADA Trust

• Horserace Betting Levy Board (HBLB)

BEVApod Newsflash: November 2024

A rundown of the most important news from the last month that you need to know as a veterinary professional including:

1. EVJ Virtual Issue - Antibiotics: Our part in their downfall

2. BEVA primary care clinical guidelines: Equine parasite control

3. Environmental impacts of equine parasiticide treatment: The UK perspective

4. BEVA protectMEtoo guidelines

5. CANTER Guidelines (First Edition) 2024

6. Austin Davis Laboratories: What's your worm risk?

7. BEF and member bodies monitoring EHV reports in France – extra vigilance required

8. BEVA Trust

BEVA podcasts:

1. November EVJ In Conversation podcast: BEVA Congress 2024 John Hickman Plenary Lecture - 'They Shoot Horses, Don't They? The Past, Present, and Future of Fracture Management' by Dean Richardson

2. November EVE podcast: Case Report: Complete abdominal wall rupture in a late-term pregnant mare with pre-existing prepubic tendon rupture with Alex Gillen

3. BEVApod Focus: Hold your horses! Have you completed BEVA's new course?

BEVApod Focus: Hold your horses! Have you completed BEVA's new course?

RCVS Specialist in equine behavioural medicine, Gemma Pearson, talks us through the background story of this new course, available free to BEVA members. Gemma has compiled a bite-size, digestible course with the busy practitioner in mind, which includes new material, on equine behaviour and learning theory. Once completed, members will be added to a list on the BEVA website, demonstrating their knowledge and skills in this increasingly important aspect of clinical practice. Not only will you be able to work more safely and efficiently, but also with the calmness and ease that both horses and owners will benefit from and be grateful for.

 

BEVA members can access the course here.

BEVApod Newsflash: October 2024

A rundown of the most important news from the last month that you need to know as a veterinary professional including:

• Standards & Advice update: Advice published on amended Veterinary Medicines Regulations

• Read the RCVS guide to the VMR changes

• RCVS Registration categories webpage

• Fellowship Day page on the RCVS website

• BEVA warn of risk of sycamores

• Royal Veterinary College’s fact sheet on Atypical myopathy and the British Horse Society a fact sheet on Acorn Poisoning

• Clinical Practice Committee update - October 2024

• Equip Artervac supply issue

BEVA podcasts:

• BEVA Sustainability Working Group at the the Dung Beetle Conference

• EVJ Special Focus Edition: Interdisciplinary approaches to equine soft‐tissue surgery

• October EVJ In Conversation: Peter Rossdale Clinical Evidence Lecture from BEVA Congress 2024: Improving evidence for orthopaedics by Andy Carr

• EVE October podcast Chessie Greenham and Gemma Pearson discuss her article ‘Welfare considerations for management of horses on prolonged periods of box rest

• BEVApod Life: I never thought it would happen to me... but it did with Becky Price, Steph Gillespie and Andy Elkington

• BEVA member PG Mutual Income Protection discounts

• BEVApod Life: Pregnancy, parenting and equine practice with Gemma Dransfield and Kate Blakeman

BEVA CPD:

• BEVA's Christmas Cracker

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BEVApod Life: Pregnancy, parenting and equine practice with Gemma Dransfield and Kate Blakeman

Gemma and Kate have both experienced the challenges faced by pregnant women and working parents, which are somewhat unique to those working in the equine veterinary industry. Where Vicki Nicholls' MumsVet initiative served to help, Gemma and Kate carried out the sizeable task of reviewing and updating the information provided. By working as a supportive community to help each other practices benefit from a happier workforce with increased trust and empathy across the team.

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BEVApod Life: I never thought it would happen to me... but it did with Becky Price, Steph Gillespie and Andy Elkington

Illness and injury can happen to anyone, but as equine vets and nurses we're at increased risk of being rendered unable to work. Two BEVA members have come to share their experiences of being off work and how income protection helped them through that time. BEVA members are eligible for discounted cover from PG Mutual, so CEO Andy Elkington joined us to explain how it works.

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BEVApod Life: An evidence-based solution for some of the challenges we face as equine vets with Sophie Eaden and Dr Katherine Wakelin

For equine veterinary professionals "being kind to ourselves" can sound a bit soft. Clinical Psychologist Dr Wakelin shares with us how actually it's quite the opposite and how it can support our performance in the workplace as well as life outside of work. Dr Wakelin tells Council member Sophie Eaden more about what compassion is, how it can help and when it might be especially needed.

Support and advice for improving your mental wellbeing can be found at:

• Vetlife
• mind matters