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From: "Sukie Crandall"
Date: 2007-12-24 18:11:53 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] Re: anesthetics for ferrets
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com

--- In ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com, "Tressie" <tressiedu@...> wrote:
>
> Unless a veterinarian or a physician, for that matter, is affiliated
> with a teaching hospital, he or she simply does not have time to be
> current on the latest evidence-based medicine, including treatment
> choices.

On that score I have to think, "Well, yes and no."

True, there certainly are profs who are the best and I have often
turned to many for answers and am sure that a number of people here
have also done the same with excellent results, BUT not all vet schools
consistently have ferret experts here in the U.S. so some use materials
from when they last had ferret experts.

More commonly, there simply isn't time to update the materials that
are public.

Sometimes the problem is that websites are written by grad students
or employees and errors are missed.

Heck, one midwest vet school finally removed a site this year which
said that rabies is not understood in ferrets and requires sacrifice.
There has been a highly effective vaccine since 1990, and in 1997 the
CDC work was completes which led to the improvements in the National
Association of State Public Health Veterinarians "Compendium of
Animal Rabies Prevention and Control", a change which appeared in JAVMA,
on the CDC site, on the AVMA site, on the NASPHV site, and elsewhere,
yet it was missed when that veterinary school lab website was written years
later. Why? The person (NOT a vet or a prof) who created the site goofed
and none of the experts spotted it in time.

I do not personally know what the case is in relation to that the public
materials from particular school.

Still, there HAVE been times when the materials a vet school has up on a
website are not the latest information, for whatever reason.

Those who treat a great many ferrets often tend to know certain aspects
of hands-on medicine better than those who don't, whether either party
is at a university or not, and -- frankly -- there certainly ARE aspects of
ferret medicine which are highly debated and others which are often in flux.

So, at times, you make your pick and you take your chances...

Live to learn and learn to live,

Sukie (not a vet)

Recommended ferret health links:
http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/ferrethealth/
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/
http://www.afip.org/ferrets/index.html
http://www.miamiferret.org/fhc/
http://www.ferretcongress.org/
http://www.trifl.org/index.shtml
http://homepage.mac.com/sukie/sukiesferretlinks.html






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