An Applied Model of Interprofessional Collaboration-Assessment (AMIC-A): A Process-Based Approach to Augmentative and Alternative Communication.

Speech-language pathologists and board-certified behavior analysts both provide important support services to children who are candidates for augmentative and alternative communication. Current assessment practices neglect critical socioecological factors that are necessary to inform communication-based interventions. By leveraging the unique knowledge, research, and expertise of both disciplines, an interprofessional approach to assessment may help realize individualized or precision interventions and personalized supports that address the unique communication needs of each person.

Effects of topical ketorolac tromethamine on tear parameters, meibography, goblet cell density, and conjunctival oxidative stress in healthy dogs.

Objectives: The objective of the study was to evaluate whether a twice-daily instillation of 0.45% preservative-free ketorolac tromethamine (FKT) or 0.4% benzalkonium chloride-preserved ketorolac tromethamine (BACKT), every 12 h for 30 days may affect tear film parameters and the meibography in healthy dogs.

Suturing with or without surgical glue is superior to surgical glue alone for sealing ex vivo swine gallbladders.

Objective: To assess the effectiveness of various sealing techniques in cholecystotomies under maximum intraluminal pressure stress using an ex vivo swine model.

Sample: 30 gallbladders from different animals were used.

Methods: The experiment was conducted ex vivo, with the formation of 3 groups, each comprising 10 samples.

Concentrations of tissue inhibitor of matrix metalloproteinase-1 and hyaluronic acid in canine amniotic membranes cryopreserved for different time points and its effects in dogs with complicated corneal ulcers.

Objectives: To determine the concentrations of total protein (TP), tissue inhibitor of matrix metalloproteinase-1 (TIMP-1) and hyaluronic acid (HA) in amniotic membranes (AMs) harvested from placentas of bitches of different ages and cryopreserved for different time points. The outcomes of complicated corneal defects of dogs repaired with AMs stored for the same time points were also evaluated.

Procedures: Ten cryopreserved canine AMs were stored for short term (2-50 days), middle term (92-210 days), or long term (256-357 days).

Effects of intracameral injection of epinephrine and 2% lidocaine on pupil diameter, intraocular pressure, and cardiovascular parameters in healthy cats.

Objectives: To investigate the effects of the intracameral injection of epinephrine and two doses of 2% lidocaine on pupil diameter (PD), intraocular pressure (IOP), heart rate (HR), and mean arterial pressure (MAP) in healthy cats.

Methods: Five treatment groups were formed (10 cats/each). Animals received 0.