Zoonotic Diseases
The best way to prevent the spread of disease from patient to caretaker.
What is proper PPE? (Gloves, shoe covers, mask, gowns, face shield)
RVT
What is a Registered Veterinary Technician?
length of time between booster vaccines in puppies.
What is 3-4 weeks?
This is also true for felines.
What type of immunity are vaccinations?
Active immunity includes the creation of antibodies due to natural exposure, vaccination, or injection.
Organism that transmits a fugus, bacteria, or disease.
What is a vector?
AAFCO feeding statement to look for on food labels.
What is "complete and balanced for _________ life stage".? Can be complete and balanced for maintenance, growth, lactating, all life stages.
BCS
Body Condition Scoring, found by palpating the patient from ribs to abdominal area, looking at waist, using chart. An estimate of body fat percentage.
Bacterial infection transmitted by cat bite or scratch.
What is cat scratch fever?
DVM
What is a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine?
viral intestinal disease of canines, signs of bloody diarrhea and vomiting, dehydration
core vaccine available
What is Parvovirus?
FVR in the FVRCP core vaccine for felines
What is Feline Viral Rhinotracheitis?
Non living things able to transmit disease, infection, or viruses.
What is a fomite?
Name a life stage where small animals have increased energy requirements.
What are puppies, kittens, gestation, and nursing?
Most important nutrient in a diet.
What is water?
Protozoal infection spread through inhaling spores in dried feces of cats.
What is Toxoplasmosis?
AVMA
What is the American Veterinary Medical Association?
zoonotic and reportable disease, affects the neurologic system, spread through bites core vaccine in canines, and felines
What is Rabies?
Core vaccination. Give an example.
What is a vaccine that is recommended for all members of the species, that the animals will likely come in contact with.
In Felines includes Viral Rhinotracheitis, Panleukopenia, Calicivirus, and Rabies.
Erythema
What is redness?
How much water should dogs/cats ingest daily for maintenance?
What is 1 ml of water per kcal of their maintenance energy requirement?
Palatability
What is how much an animal likes a food? Influenced by odor, temperature, texture, fat, water, salt, and mouth-feel.
Medical term for ringworm used in 155.
What is Dermatophytosis?
VTNE
What is the Veterinary Technician National Exam?
Signs of a serious vaccine reaction, patient should be seen immediately by a veterinarian.
What are hives, vomiting, diarrhea, collapse?
Non-core vaccine, and an example in felines.
What is a vaccine that is not recommended for all in a species, depends on "lifestyle" of the patient?
Examples in felines include Giardia, Feline Leukemia, Chlamydophila felis, Feline Coronavirus, and Bordetella Bronchiseptica.
Having a short skull/nose.
What is brachycephalic?
The reason that felines must ingest animal based protein.
Signs of fat deficiency in a diet.
What are dry haircoat, skin infections, scaly skin, delayed wound healing?
Disease most commonly spread through infected urine in the environment.
What is Leptospirosis?
VTS
What is a Veterinary Technician Specialisit?
What are Distemper, Adenovirus Type 2 (Hepatitis), Parvovirus, and Rabies?
The feline disease which should be tested for prior to administering the vaccination.
What is Feline Leukemia?
Cats must be negative before receiving the FeLV vaccine because the vaccine only prevents infection, it does not treat existing infection. Testing ensures correct medical management for the individual cat and helps protect the larger feline population
poikilothermic
What is an animal that has a body temperature that fluctuates with the environment, "cold blooded"?
What is an RER and the formula.
Resting energy requirement 70x (body weight in kg)^0.75
units are kcal
Amount of nutrients in a food available for absorption after consumption, influenced by the qualit of ingredients and processing technique.
What is digestibility?