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Would you recognize early toxicosis before it becomes life-threatening?

Equine toxicology cases often present subtle, vague clinical signs, delayed exposure history, or overlapping systemic symptoms. Rapid recognition and structured diagnostic thinking can make the difference between recovery and catastrophe.

Equine veterinarians deserve education that is not only evidence-based but clinically actionable.

The experts and speakers at The Equine Education Practice Company are dedicated to supporting practitioners with invaluable perspectives, proven strategies, and cutting-edge knowledge that you can apply clinically to your own patients.

Read the full article here: https://www.theequinepracticecompany.com/speaker/sarah-humphries/

You have seen a wound that should have healed… and didn’t

In Clinical Approach to Wound Healing - Part 2, Professor Derek Knottenbelt, OBE BVM&S, DVM&S, DipECEIM, DACVIM (LA) MRCVS, offers a calm, systematic approach to equine wound assessment, helping you identify inhibiting factors and involved structures before healing quietly goes off track.

This isn’t about doing more.

It’s about seeing what matters sooner and simplifying wound management in real-world equine practice.

The full lecture is available inside your Practitioner’s Program library.

Not a Practitioner’s Program member yet? Now’s the time.
Learn more: https://courses.theequinepracticecompany.com/practitioners-program/

55% VS 4%. Why the difference?

The answer lies in the type of surgery your horse undergoes.

Colic surgery carries the highest risk, with complication rates reaching 55%, while orthopedic and minor procedures have an overall complication rate of around 4%.

One of the biggest predictors of complications? Surgeries lasting longer than one hour.

Understanding these risks helps veterinarians and horse owners make more informed decisions before surgery.

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Did You Know?💡

For horses with Equine Metabolic Syndrome or insulin dysregulation, managing sugar intake involves more than avoiding grain.

The 2024 Equine Endocrinology Group Guidelines recommend keeping dietary non-structural carbohydrates (NSC) below 10% on a dry matter basis, including hay. When hay analysis isn't available, soaking hay for one hour can help reduce its sugar content.

Pasture management is equally important. Grass sugars are generally lowest in the early morning after being depleted overnight, but environmental factors such as frost, herbicide application, and poor soil fertility can cause sugar levels to remain elevated regardless of the time of day.

Because individual horses respond differently, monitoring insulin after reintroducing an insulin-dysregulated or laminitis-prone horse to pasture can help assess its response to that specific grazing environment.

You’re looking at a cloudy, painful eye on a farm call, and you already know this horse could lose vision before tomorrow morning.

The hardest part with equine eye emergencies is that they often deteriorate faster than they first appear. A “small ulcer” at 6 p.m. can look very different by midnight if you’re only treating infection and not getting the process under control, which can cause the cornea to melt.

What’s helped most veterinarians is having a repeatable first-24-hour framework before the panic starts.

We broke down the exact clinical approach, field decisions, and treatment priorities that often make the difference between saving vision and losing the eye.

If you manage equine eye emergencies regularly, this is worth reading before the next one lands in your truck.

You finish a long day of dentals, know you’re doing good work, and still wonder why the phone isn’t ringing as much as it should.

Most equine veterinarians were never taught how to explain their value outside the barn aisle. So the quieter practices often aren’t the less skilled ones. They’re just the least visible.

What changes things is realizing marketing isn’t about selling. It’s about helping horse owners understand why your work matters before there’s a problem.

Learn from our experience and read about the strategies that actually helped grow our equine dentistry practice without sounding pushy, scripted, or corporate.

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