Defining sepsis in small animals.

Objective: To discuss the definitions of sepsis in human and veterinary medicine.

Design: International, multicenter position statement on the need for consensus definitions of sepsis in veterinary medicine.

Setting: Veterinary private practice and university teaching hospitals.

Retrospective evaluation of jugular venous blood variables and mortality in critically ill hospitalized cats.

Objective: To evaluate clinicopathological variables associated with hospital mortality in critically ill cats with compromised hemodynamics and tissue hypoperfusion.

Design: Retrospective observational study.

Setting: Private referral center.

Multidrug-Resistant Bacteria Isolated From Surgical Site of Dogs, Surgeon's Hands and Operating Room in a Veterinary Teaching Hospital in Brazil.

Surgical environment can play as a source of multidrug-resistance organism, what can pose as a big threat to the patients and health care professionals. This study aimed to evaluate the prevalence and antimicrobial resistance profile of Gram-positive cocci (GPC) and Gram-negative bacilli (GNB) isolated from the surgical environment. All samples were collected during the intraoperative period of clean/clean-contaminated (G1) and contaminated (G2) surgery.

Assessment of plasma lactate and core-peripheral temperature gradient in association with stages of naturally occurring myxomatous mitral valve disease in dogs.

Objective: To evaluate plasma lactate concentrations and core-peripheral temperature gradients as perfusion parameters in dogs with heart failure caused by myxomatous mitral valve disease (MMVD) and to determine whether the above perfusion parameters are correlated with disease stages.

Design: Prospective observational study.

Setting: University teaching hospital.