Proceedings of the Small Animal Veterinarians of the AVA
Published by: Australian Veterinary AssociationContains full papers presented at conference by veterinary experts on a wide range of topics relevant to the practice of companion animal medicine and surgery.
2025 - Together with AVCB, AVDS and UPAV ( 2025 )
Small Animals ( Aug )
Conversation Biology ( Aug )
Dental ( Aug )
Unusual Pet and Avian ( Aug )
50th ASAV Annual Conference - complete proceedings ( Aug )
2024 - Combined with the Veterinary Business Group ( 2024 )
49th ASAV Annual Conference - complete proceedings ( Aug )
Proceedings ( Aug )
2023 - Joined by the Reproduction Group ( 2023 )
48th ASAV Annual Conference - complete proceedings ( Aug )
Small Animal ( Aug )
Reproduction ( Aug )
2022 - Joined by the Behaviour, Dental and Unusual Pet and Avian Special Interest Groups ( 2022 )
47th ASAV Annual Conference - complete proceedings ( Jul )
Small Animal ( Jul )
Behaviour ( Jul )
Dental ( Jul )
Unusual Pet and Avian ( Jul )
2019 - Small Animal, Dentistry and Behaviour Conference ( 2019 )
46th ASAV Annual Conference - complete proceedings ( Aug )
Plenary ( Aug )
Small Animal ( Aug )
Dentistry ( Aug )
Behaviour ( Aug )
Articles
- 46th ASAV Annual Conference - complete proceedings
- 47th ASAV Annual Conference - complete proceedings
- 48th ASAV Annual Conference - complete proceedings
- 49th ASAV Annual Conference - complete proceedings
- 50th ASAV Annual Conference - complete proceedings
- Dietary carbohydrate in health and disease
- Coughing, bronchomalacia and tracheal stenting
- Septic peritonitis: a case based session
- The colour of pain: Novel diagnostic technologies drawn from biophotonics
- Cutaneous Mast Cell Tumours Unveiled - Diagnosis, Management, and Species-Specific Insights for Dogs and Cats
- How do I deal with oral masses?
- How do I treat emergency glaucoma?
- How do I treat emergency seizures?
- Dietary management for gastrointestinal surgery
- Mental health ergonomics: Occupational stress and compassion fatigue in the small animal veterinarian
- Pulmonary hypertension
- Canine cognitive dysfunction (CCD): What is the status quo and what does the future hold?
- How to Approach a Cat with a Skin Mass
- Urinary tract emergencies
- Radiotherapy for canine and feline brain tumours: Past, present and future
- Dietary management of chronic inflammatory enteropathies
- How to Approach a Dog with a Skin Mass
- The coughing dog with a heart murmur
- Feline nasal disease: Diagnosis and treatment - "S'not a problem"
- Acute kidney injury
- Chronic nasal disease in the dog: Diagnosis and treatment
- Dietary management of patients with acute vomiting or diarrhoea
- Continuous glucose monitoring and other monitoring options
- Culture is key: How everyone can co-create more positive veterinary working environments
- Grain free diets for dogs: What every veterinarian should know
- A clinically relevant approach to sudden blindness
- Emergency and critical care in small animal practice: where have we come and where are we going?
- Diabetes-associated emergencies
- Corneal ulcers: The golden rules to avoid frustration
- Pancreatitis: the most common cause of acute abdomen
- Raw food diets: Facts, philosophy, and fallacy
- Diagnosing and treating infectious conjunctivitis in cats
- Managing strong emotions in veterinary workplaces
- How to optimise diabetic remission in cats
- Surgery of the eyelids and third eyelid
- Pleural effusions: the good, the bad, the ugly
- How to approach a cat with a gastrointestinal mass
- The complete ophthalmic exam using instruments you already have
- Diagnosing canine heart failure in practice: Combining clinical examination, radiography, echo and TFAST
- Smart use of modern insulin in dogs
- Chronic Enteropathies in Dogs
- The acute abdomen
- The eye is red and painful... what do I do now?
- Canine protein-losing enteropathy
- Chronic enteropathies in cats
- Brachycephalic airway syndrome: Diagnosis and treatment
- Chronic inflammatory enteropathies: Update on disease pathogenesis and diagnosis
- Update on Hyperthyroidism in Cats
- Imaging and interpreting lungs better: Make the most of your radiographs and when do you really need CT?
- Chronic inflammatory enteropathies: Update on treatment strategies
- Vitamins and Chronic enteropathies. How important are they?
- Evidence-based therapy of GI disease: Case studies
- The deadly Australians: tick paralysis, toad poisoning, puffer fish intoxication - an update on treatment
- Addison's update: A case-cased approach & when they are atypical
- Exocrine pancreatic diseases in the dog and cat
- Indications, pitfalls, and practical tips for lower GI endoscopy
- Bracycepahlic airway syndrome: Treatment
- Indications, pitfalls, and practical tips for upper GI endoscopy
- Hypercortisolism I: Diagnostic Tips & Tricks
- Aerodigestive disorders: How many of our respiratory sign patients actually have oesophageal disease?
- What’s new in GI from 2020 - 2023?
- The glycaemic emergencies – the hypoglycaemic crisis and hyperglycaemic calamity
- Abdominal multi-detector computed tomography (emphasis on gastrointestinal tract)
- The mediastinum: Recognising and diagnosing disease in this space
- Hypercortisolism II: Update on monitoring dogs receiving Trilostane therapy
- Oral medications for feline diabetes mellitus: A paradigm shift (SGLT2i)
- Gastrointestinal ultrasonography of the dog and cat
- The treatment of intoxications: what's new, what's old, what works in the management of small animal poisonings
- Guidelines for private practice veterinarians on anaesthesia and pain management in cats undergoing desexing
- Brachycephalic dogs: What else do they get?
- Highlights of the ACVR/ECVDI consensus statement on standardisation of the abdominal ultrasound examination
- Pleural effusion clinical pathology: How to get the most out of your samples
- Gastrointestinal dilation and volvulus (GDV): post operative care
- Radiographic interpretation of the gastrointestinal tract
- An update on pneumonia in dogs and cats
- A contextualised approach to alopecia in the dog
- A pain in the neck: What are the causes?
- Respiratory noise and character: How the sounds and patterns your patients make can lead you to a diagnosis
- Pre-pubertal desexing of cats
- Life-saving autotransfusions: when and how
- Talking tubes: Understanding oesophageal dysfunction in dogs and cats
- A contextualised approach to canine pruritic skin disease
- Desexing: Making sense of the literature and conversations with clients
- Diet-associated dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM): Update
- An approach to canine otitis externa for the primary care practitioner
- Brain disease in dogs and cats: Is it a brain tumour?
- Effect of systemic disorders on the heart: Feline
- Roger Clarke State of the Art Lecture - Elapid snake envenomation: where are we now and what is new?
- Canine pododermatitis - approach and management
- Otitis externa in the cat - treatment
- Feline aortic thromboembolism (FATE): Updates on management
- The dry, the bleeding and the septic: shock resuscitation in the ER with a clinical focus
- Interventional treatment modalities for mitral valve disease
- Head trauma: A logical approach
- Pain relief in otitis
- Outback Opponents: Field-based challenges and the story of E. canis
- Overview on diagnosing feline cardiomyopathies
- Inflammatory CNS disease: What can I do about it?
- Advances in fracture management: latest recommendations from the AO foundation
- Self-compassion for veterinarians
- The effect of systemic disorders on the heart in the dog
- Digestive diseases in Brachycephalics
- Topical wildlife - common presentations and management in clinical practice
- How to become a shit stirrer: Faecal Microbiota Transplants and their role in small animal gastroenterology
- Emergency gastrointestinal surgery: tips and tricks
- Neuroophthalmology: Is it more than meets the eye?
- To scope or cut? Delving deep into which method is best to procure GI biopsies and when?
- Who's doing what to whom? A snapshot of wildlife research and opportunities in far North Queensland
- Severe distal limb trauma: what to do when there is not much left to work with
- Triaditis: Truth and treatment
- The tertiary survey: how to avoid missed injuries in the trauma patient
- Cane toad toxicity - a practical and clinical approach
- Remote tocodynamometry monitoring using WiFi to support veterinarians in home-based obstetrical management
- When there is no room for error: what makes emergency surgery different
- Non-painful spinal diseases: I can’t walk but I don't hurt!
- The search for H5N1 HPAI along the northern frontier
- When to cast and when to cut: approach to fracture management
- Seizures and epilepsy: Treatment and management update
- Back to Basic: Regional Nerve Block Techniques in Small Animal Dentistry
- Gastric dilatation and volvulus (GDV)
- "Doggy Braces" - Is that Real? Let's Talk About Malocclusion
- Seizures and epilepsy: Diagnosis
- Periodontal Disease & Its Management
- Blood gas analysis at the bed-side
- Phage therapy: Basics and use in reproductive therapies
- Working up the weak: Acute and chronic neuromuscular diseases
- Unraveling the Odontogenic Cysts
- Seroprevalence of canine alphaherpesvirus-1 in a district in North Queensland
- Non-antibiotic therapies in a post-antibiotic world
- Stepwise approach to fluid planning in the patient with gastrointestinal disease
- Oral Tumours: radiation therapy as an essential treatment option
- Head & neck imaging: What more does advanced imaging offer?
- Dental Radiographs - What They Can Tell Us
- Fears and phobias: when the world is scarier than it should be
- Gonadectomy and effects on physiological function
- Head & neck imaging: What should we aim for in practice?
- Dental Radiographs - What They Can't Tell Us
- Environmental needs and orthopaedic recovery
- Integrated surgical oncology for the brain and skull tumour affected dog and cat
- Monitoring canine pregnancies and managing elective caesarean sections
- Interpreting Radiographs in Juvenile Patients - Normal vs Abnormal
- Partnering for success: Navigating initial repro consults for better breeding
- Separation anxiety syndrome
- Complications and mistakes in veterinary dentistry
- Estimated breeding values for dog breeding: Pros and cons
- Neophobia/neophilia and problem-solving in birds and mammals
- Radiographic Pitfalls and Misinterpretations: Seeing Isn't Always Believing
- Odontogenic tumours: What are they and how do you manage them?
- Stress levels and learning in birds
- Tooth Resorption - Case-Based Discussions
- The parrot/cockatoo reproductive paradigm: its social and cognitive consequences
- Juvenile dentistry
- Using genetic tests and reporting inherited disorders in dog breeding: How veterinarians can help (parts 1 and 2)
- Hindlimb paresis in a central bearded dragon (Pogona vitticeps) secondary to aortic thromboembolism and presumed cardiac neoplasia
- Low grade chronic pain
- Successful treatment of chronic dystocia resulting in foetal necrosis in a blue tongue lizard (Tiliqua scincoides)
- Nerve blocks: Linchpin to dental pain management
- Diagnosis and management of uterine conditions using transcervical catheterisation in bitches
- Panic disorder
- What about me? The fate of injured wildlife at a designated wildlife rehabilitation teaching hospital.
- Anthropomorphism
- Periodontal planning for life
- Noise sensitivities
- Cognitive dysfunction syndrome
- Restorative materials: The art and the science
- So your case hasn't gone as expected...don't panic!
- Panicky patients: what medications can help
- Challenging cases of oral surgery: fun times!
- Creating flaps to close oral defects
- Dental trauma: ouch!
- Oral lumps and bumps 101
- Prosthodontics
- Easing difficult extractions using luxators
- Nidovirus in a Blue-Tongue Lizard: A chance to cure with Remdesivir
- Doctoral thesis findings on reptile blood-borne and ectoparasite borne bacteria and zoonoses
- Rabbit and rodent dentistry: Where to start?
- Approach to the fractured tooth
- Oral trauma: non-invasive jaw fracture management
- Severe bilateral eosinophilic keratoconjunctivitis in a pet rabbit
- Proventriculo-ventricular Intussusception Associated with Proventricular Adenocarcinoma in an African Grey Parrot (Psittacus erithacus)
- Dealings with the World's most dangerous bird
- Endodontics: An overview of vital pulpotomy and root canal therapy
- Retrospective analysis of triage and hospitalisation records for bushfire-affected koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus) and other wildlife species from Victoria, Australia, 2019-2020
- Canine and feline gingivostomatitis
- Ferret Endocrine Diseases
- Abnormal and repetitive behaviours in dogs and cats
- Management Of the Dyspnoeic Bird
- Cognitive dysfunction in dogs and cats
- Understanding tooth resorption and case management
- Pododermatitis in small mammals and birds
- Hypersensitivity-hyperactivity syndrome, and dissociative disorders
- Juvenile dentistry: treatment for a happy life
- Pathophysiology of behaviour: How physical and mental diseases interplay
- Diagnostic dental radiographs tips and tricks
- Separation distress: Hyper-attachment disorder in pets and cats
- Hopping over the hill: Management of the geriatric pet rabbit
- Undergraduate dental teaching emergency and how to tackle it
- Avian Enrichment
- Feline extractions: tips and tricks
- The psychiatric approach to pharmacology
- Managing aggressive dogs
- Feather damaging behaviour in psittacine birds
- Iatrogenic dental trauma: how to fix 'the big oops'
- Managing aggressive cats
- Minimising Stress and Anxiety During the Clinical Exam in Avian and Small Mammal Patients
- The avian emergency: emergency medicine of galliformes and anseriformes
- Thunderstorms and fireworks: How to help your patients
- The avian emergency: management of psittacine emergencies
- When dog training can help and when it cannot: The dog's welfare depends on you
- Are you kidneying me? The avian kidney in health and disease
- Diagnosis and management of Chylothorax in a ferret (mustela putorious furo)
- Avian Mycobacteriosis: From Individual to Flock Management
- Medical management of gastrointestinal obstruction (bloat) in pet rabbits
- Helping Technology Help Animals: The Use of 3D Printing, Automation and Artificial Intelligence in Zoo Practices
- The ethical management of insect feeder colonies
- Hydrocephalus in a bearded dragon
- Hypothyroidism in a python
- An update on Australian reptile infectious diseases (2022)
- Enteroliths in parrots
- Diagnosis and management of leukaemias in bearded dragons (Pogona vitticeps)
- Non-infectious emergencies in veterinary fish medicine
- Water quality-related emergencies in veterinary fish medicine
- Resuscitation of avian and exotic species
- Lymphoma in ferrets
- Anne Martin Memorial Scholarship Winner: Help, my frog won't eat! A case study on protozoal burden in anurans
- Stephen Ross Memorial Scholarship Winner: Surgical excision of a thymic lymphoma in a green tree python (Morelia viridis)
- Liver lobe torsion in client-owned rabbits: 2016-2021
- Case study: Neuroendocrine tumour in a bearded dragon
- Comparison of outcomes of two surgical approaches to surgical desexing of male guinea pigs (Porcella caviae)
- Osteomyelitis in a turtle