The BVOA Podcast

• Heather Eastham

  Heather Eastham joins Simon and Duncan for episode 5 where we're talking about revision surgery...which happens to be the title of this year's BVOA autumn meeting. We each share a case with complications and discuss. You can easily access all the xrays we're talking about here https://photos.app.goo.gl/zpgYiZskM4PuuXsf7 Heather is an advanced practitioner working in first opinion/referral practice in Yorkshire. We hear about her career, her thoughts on being an advanced practitioners and her time on the BVOA committee. 

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• Abbie Tipler

  Specialist small animal surgeon Abbie Tipler joins Simon and Duncan from Brisbane Australia! Abbie set up the small animal surgery discussion group on Facebook in 2015, it now has 9000 members from all over the world discussing surgical cases. We hear about Abbie's career, how she set the group up and how she maintains it. We also discussed women in orthopaedics - how do we encourage more female vets into orthopaedics? Then we all chatted about two interesting papers on humeral intracondylar fissures in French Bulldogs.  Links to the papers:  J of Small Animal Practice - 2024 - Hutchings - Computed tomographic re‐evaluation of skeletally immature French bulldogs.pdf https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11405096/?utm_source=chatgpt.com Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/smallanimalsurgery.org/  

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• Mark Bush BVOA Senior Vice Chairman

  In this episode Simon and Duncan talk to the Senior Vice Chairman of BVOA and RCVS specialist in orthopaedics Mark Bush. Mark tells us about his career and the BVOA mentoring scheme. We also discussed using CT modelled guides and plates, intraoperative radiography, shoulder arthrodesis, as well as two interesting radial fracture cases recently discussed on the BVOA discussion group. The xrays discussed can be accessed here https://tinyurl.com/3jatbses If you're interested in being a mentor, or being mentored in the BVOA scheme, contact Mark - [email protected]  

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• Librela discussions part two - Louise Clark

  For part two of our librela discussions we were delighted to interview Louise Clark, a specialist anaesthetist who was a co-author on the paper 'Musculoskeletal adverse events in dogs receiving Bedinvetmab (Librela).' We also chat about Louise’s career, explore pain management more broadly, delve into stem cell treatment, and pick up some handy tips for anaesthetising patients undergoing orthopaedic surgery. Link to the paper here : https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/veterinary-science/articles/10.3389/fvets.2025.1581490/full

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• Trailer

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