Effects of cyanoacrylate on leakage pressures of cooled canine cadaveric jejunal enterotomies.

Objective: To compare the intraluminal initial and maximal pressures of enterotomies closed using three different techniques (single-layer appositional continuous closure; closure with cyanoacrylate; a single-layer appositional closure augmented with cyanoacrylate) in a cooled canine cadaveric jejunal model and to report the initial leak location in all samples.

Study Design: Experimental, ex-vivo study.

Sample Population: Grossly normal chilled small intestine segments from three canine cadavers.

Evaluation of veterinary students' confidence and competence with surgical entrustable professional activities after repeated use of low-fidelity training models.

Background: This study aimed to evaluate whether low-fidelity surgical training models increased veterinary students' surgical confidence and competence and decreased procedural stress related to core surgical entrustable professional activities (EPAs).

Methods: Final-year veterinary students repeatedly performed one of three surgical EPAs on a low-fidelity surgical training model (canine castration, subcutaneous lump removal and eyelid laceration repair) and completed a survey at set time points. In addition, a grading rubric was used to assess participants' competence in performing the assigned EPA at two different time points.

Veterinary students' views on surgical entrustable professional activities and the impact of COVID-19 on clinical competence development.

Background: The primary purpose of this study was to understand veterinary students' views on the described key surgical entrustable professional activities (EPAs) and to understand how COVID-19 restrictions have impacted their clinical skill and competence development.

Methods: Final-year veterinary students at a single institute completed a web-based survey distributed by email. The survey aimed to characterise five constructs regarding EPAs, and a specific five-point Likert-like scale was created asking explicitly worded questions for each construct.

Congenital Urethrovaginal Fistula with Blind-Ending Vagina in a Female Pseudohermaphrodite Dog with Urinary Incontinence.

An 8 mo old male Doberman pinscher was referred for investigation of persistent urinary incontinence. Physical examination revealed urine leakage and abnormal external genitalia. A computed tomography scan identified a large fluid-filled cavity extending from the caudoventral abdomen displacing the colon and urinary bladder.