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AAEP Convention 2005: How to Use a Head and Tail Rope for Recovery
Recovery from anesthesia after surgery can be a dangerous time for a horse as he struggles to his feet upon waking, often disoriented by unfamiliar surroundings and lingering incoordination. One way to help decrease injuries or re-injuries from
AAEP Convention 2005: Technology Update
Many of horse owners and veterinarians feel like new technologies are leaving us in the dust on a regular basis. The Technology Update Table Topic session at the 2005 American Association of Equine Practitioners Convention, held Dec. 3-7 in
AAEP Convention 2005: Dentistry Table Topic
Dentistry continues to be a popular topic of discussion among equine veterinarians; more than 100 attendees lined the walls in standing-room-only fashion during the Dentistry Table Topic session at the 2005 American Association of Equine
AAEP Convention 2005: Kester News Hour
What’s new and hot in veterinary medicine? What if you could get two of the world’s foremost equine veterinarians to dig through the mountain of research that is published each year and tell you what is really significant for your and your horse
AAEP Convention 2005: Equine Learning Ability
“Until recently, horses have been estimated to have average intelligence at best,” said Evelyn B. Hanggi, MS, PhD, president and, along with Jerry Ingersoll, co-founder of the Equine Research Foundation (ERF) in Aptos, Calif., during her review
Foal Imprinting — Research Review
While horse owners worldwide want a simple answer to the question of whether foal imprinting works or not, it’s hard to give a simple answer to what really isn’t a simple question. This was the message of an imprinting research review presented
AAEP Convention 2005: Physical, Psychological, or Both?
When your horse’s behavior changes, you wonder what caused the change–did he start kicking his stall because he is in pain, or just because he hates his new stablemate? Behavior changes can stem from physical problems, psychological ones, or a
Weaving, Headshaking and Cribbing (AAEP Convention 2005)
We often punish horses for exhibiting undesirable stereotypic behaviors, but most of these behaviors are responses to suboptimal environments. Thus, punishing the horse for the behavior only increases the already heightened stress that caused
AAEP Convention 2005: Upper Airway Obstructive Disease
“Before high-speed treadmill (HSTM) endoscopy, we did not recognize the complexity of maintaining a open airway under enormous pressure swings during inspiration and expiration (breathing in and out),” said Eric Parente, DVM, associate professor
AAEP Convention 2005: Inflammatory Airway Disease
A racehorse running at top speed breathes about 120 times per minute, moving about 12-15 liters of air per breath or 1,400-1,800 liters per minute. With this amount of airflow, it’s not hard to imagine that any amount of airway inflammation can
AAEP Convention 2005: Exercise Induced Pulmonary Hemorrhage
Exercise-induced pulmonary hemorrhage (EIPH), or bleeding in the lungs after exercise, costs the United States horse racing industry a great deal–estimated at up to $260 million per year by Kenneth W. Hinchcliff, BVSc, MS, PhD, Dipl. ACVIM, of
Purchase Exam at Auction (AAEP 2005)
While consignors used to hate these exams, they are now very welcoming of it because it’s opportunity for them to assess action on the horse (how many people are seriously looking at the horse).
AAEP Convention 2005: Reproduction/Perinatology Forum
It’s important that all the players in an industry speak the same language, and the Reproduction/Perinatology Forum on Dec. 3 at the American Association of Equine Practitioners convention in Seattle, Wash., tried to help equine veterinarians do
AAEP Convention 2005: Three Years of Racing Deaths in Victoria, Australia
A comprehensive post-mortem survey in Victoria, Australia, found that euthanasia for catastrophic forelimb injury was the most common cause of Thoroughbred racehorse fatality. Additionally, Lisa Boden, AB, BVSc, MACVS, of The University of
Serum Biomarkers for Musculoskeletal Disease (AAEP 2005)
A Colorado State University (CSU) researcher recently reported that he and his colleagues have found significant patterns of six different signals of damage or “biomarkers” in the serum of racehorses with certain musculoskeletal diseases. This means
AAEP Convention 2005: Forelimb Conformation and Race Performance
Straight conformation in the forelimb doesn’t necessarily beget a more successful racehorse. This is what a research group from the University of Wisconsin’s School of Veterinary Medicine discovered in a recent study. However, the group also
