Buprenorphine/naloxone micro-induction in a tertiary care hospital: a retrospective cohort analysis.

Objectives: To describe the use of buprenorphine/naloxone micro-inductions in hospitalized patients and characterize the success rate of these inductions.

Methods: We conducted a retrospective chart review of hospitalized patients receiving a buprenorphine/naloxone micro-induction for opioid use disorder in a tertiary care hospital from Jan 2020-Dec 2020. The primary outcome was a description of the micro-induction prescribing patterns used.

The use of vascular access ports for blood collection in feline blood donors.

We investigated vascular access ports for feline blood donation. Eight cats were anesthetized for conventional blood collection by jugular venipuncture at the beginning and end of the study. In-between conventional collections, vascular access ports were used for collection with or without sedation every 6 to 8 wk for 6 mo.

Correlation between severity of clinical signs and motor evoked potentials after transcranial magnetic stimulation in large-breed dogs with cervical spinal cord disease.

Objective: To evaluate use of transcranial magnetic motor evoked potentials for assessment of the functional integrity of the cervical spinal cord in large-breed dogs with cervical spinal cord disease.

Design: Randomized, controlled, masked study.

Animals: 10 healthy large-breed control dogs and 25 large-breed dogs with cervical spinal cord diseases.

A comparison of 2 different suture patterns for skin closure of canine ovariohysterectomy.

The purpose of this study was to compare postoperative wound healing in canine ovariohysterectomy following the use of an absorbable monofilament poliglecaprone 25 suture in 2 different skin closure techniques, the buried continuous subcuticular (BCS) suture pattern and the simple interrupted (SI) suture pattern. These 2 skin closure techniques were evaluated against a nonabsorbable polypropylene monofilament suture in an SI pattern. Wounds were assessed by using a semiquantitative scoring system at 18 to 24 hours and 10 to 14 days, postoperatively.