Animal Handling & Clinical Skills
A dog showing tucked tail, lip licking, and whale eye is demonstrating this emotional state.
What is fear/anxiety/stress (FAS)?
In a SOAP note, client reported vomiting and diarrhea would belong in this section.
What is the Subjective section?
The quick assessment and prioritization of critical patients vs. stable patients.
What is triage?
Inaccessible transportation, financial limitations, and limited clinic hours are all examples of this broader category affecting veterinary access.
What are barriers to care/social determinants of health?
Rabies is transmitted through a vector. T/F
False.
BONUS (100). Give me 3 ways in which it is transmitted
The internationally used measurement for a needle’s diameter.
What is a needle gauge?
The conversational process of obtaining information from the owner of a patient.
What is history taking or taking a history?
A CORE vaccine that is required by law for all dogs in California.
What is the rabies vaccine?
This communication framework emphasizes partnership, empathy, and shared decision making between veterinary professionals and clients.
What is relationship centered communication?
When diseases are spread through a route such as fecal-oral or aerosols.
What is transmission?
This diagnostic test evaluates tear production.
What is the Schirmer Tear Test?
The term “multifocal” describes lesions with this distribution pattern.
What are multiple distinct lesions in several locations?
Flea and tick medication such as Nexgard and Bravecto
What are ectoparasite preventatives?
Using a child to interpret complex medical information instead of a trained interpreter increases risk for this type of outcome.
What are communication errors/misinterpretation/inadequate informed consent?
The strategy used to control the stray cat population through sterilizing, vaccinating, ear tipping, then returning them to their original locations.
What is the return-to field method?
The negative pressure when drawing blood that causes a blockage in the vessel.
What is a collapsed vessel?
BONUS (100). What is the other event that can occur when you draw blood?
The abbreviation “AD” in veterinary medicine refers to this anatomical location.
What is the right ear?
When administering a vaccine to a feline patient, administer it as distally down the limb as possible to decrease the risk of this occurring proximal to the limb.
What is a feline injection site sarcoma?
The guidelines that emphasize collaboration, cultural awareness, and trust between veterinary professionals with the communities and animals they serve.
What are the principles of veterinary community engagement?
A spore-forming bacterial disease that is impossible to treat. Instead, the colony is exterminated through incineration.
What is American foul brood?
These are the core guidelines in using the least amount of restraint to ensure the safety of all parties involved as well as reducing stress in the patient.
What are the Principles of restraint?
A prescription label stating “Give 2 tablets PO TID x 21d #126”. Interpret that in lay terms.
What is "2 tablets by mouth three times daily for 21 days. Quantity of 126 tablets dispensed"?
This vector borne pathogen commonly causes Lyme disease in dogs.
What is Borrelia burgdorferi?
It is evidence-based care options of varying costs and complexity contextualized to family factors, goals, and disease processes.
What is spectrum of care?
Name 4 key things that veterinarians play a role in, aside from clinical practice.
What is (1) Food safety/security, (2) Environmental health, (3) Policy advocacy, and (4) Disease prevention/control?