2017 proceedings : soaring to new heights, Association of Avian Veterinarians Conference 2017, July 29 - August 2, 2017 (exhibits 30-2), Washington, DC.

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Association of Avian Veterinarians. Conference
Format: Software eBook
Language:English
Published: Teaneck, New Jersey : Association of Avian Veterinarians, 2017.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Avian hematologic testing
  • High impact ways to apply behavioral medicine in a healthcare setting
  • Geriatric avian medicine
  • The long and winding road: from diagnostic testing to treatment and beyond
  • An introduction to non-psittacine aviculture
  • Aviculture and avian veterinary medicine: understanding their relationship
  • Ducks, geese, and swans: an introduction to waterfowl medicine
  • Backyard poultry cases: let's work them up together!
  • Immunization of poultry
  • Reproductive health considerations for back yard flocks
  • Parrot cognition and behavior: 40 years and counting
  • Differential effects of the environment on feather-damaging behavior in shy and bold parrots
  • Validation of a point-of-care coagulometer in two raptor species
  • Sinus trephination and sinoscopy in a Swainson's toucan with rhinosinusitis (Ramphastos ambiguus swainsonii)
  • Effects of housing variables and season on bone density in parrots
  • Comparison of conscious whole-body dorsoventral radiographs and standard anesthetized radiographs in African grey parrots (Psittacus erithacus)
  • Comparative evalution of ocular coherence tomography
  • House officer manuscript winner: effects of midazolam and midazolam-butorphanol on gastrointestinal transit time and motility in cockatiels (Nymphicus hollandicus)
  • Effect of restraint and transportation on hematologic values and plasma corticosterone in Hispaniolan Amazon parrots (Amazona ventralis)
  • New investigations of diagnostics for Aspergillosis in birds
  • Pharmacokinetics of compounded transdermal meloxicam in red-tailed hawks (Buteo jamaicensis)
  • Establishing and validating stress behaviors in cockatiels (Nymphicus hollandicus)
  • Comparative evaluation of ophthalmoscopic techniques for birds using different imaging techniques
  • A comparison of the pharmacokinetics of intravenous fentanyl in isoflurane-anesthetized red-tailed hawks (Buteo jamaicensis) and Hispaniolan Amazon parrots (Amazona ventralis)
  • Pharmacokinetics of a single dose of oral and intramuscular meloxicam in African penguins (Spheniscus demersus)
  • A pilot study: comparison of in-box radiographs, standard radiographs and computed tomodensitometry in avian patients presenting in respiratory distress
  • Stability of compounded transdermal meloxicam gel
  • Deslorelin 4.7-mg implants reduce reproduction in Quaker parrots (Myiopsitta monachus)
  • Foreign body perforation of the proventriculus of an Umbrella cockatoo
  • Extensive eye and face trauma treated successfully with hyperbaric oxygen therapy post-enucleation
  • Four cases of lymphoma in unrelated lineolated parakeets
  • Design and application of a prosthetic foot in a rooster (Gallus gallus)
  • 3D printed prosthetic limb in a chicken (Gallus domesticus)
  • Bile duct carcinoma in a young Hahn's macaw
  • Removal of a tracheal myelolipoma in a cockatiel (Nymphicus hollandicus) by surgical resection and anastomosis
  • Successful control of seizure activity with levetiracetam in an African grey parrot (Psittacus erithacus)
  • Plasmodium sp. infection in a small flock of zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata)
  • Avian heat stress and heat injuries: clinical and conservation relevance
  • Medical presentations in free-flight shows
  • Chronic infectious diseases and treatment options
  • Practice pearls potpourri
  • Avian ophthalmology: principles and application
  • Avian orthopedic surgery: a surgeon specialized in avian trauma's point of view!
  • Avian metabolic bone diseases
  • Facilitating falconers: treating performance raptors and accomodating a unique clientele
  • Advanced imaging techniques
  • Avian endocrinology
  • Applying critical thinking and clinical reasoning in avian medicine
  • Pelicanidae: pelican medicine
  • Avian acute phase response diagnostics: past, present, future
  • Herbals and nutraceuticals in avian practice: liver, cardiac, and integument applications
  • Gross lesion recognition for the avian practitioner
  • Satellite telemetry of water birds
  • Critical care of raptors
  • Clinical cardiovascular anatomy and disease states
  • Diagnosis and management of cardiovascular diseases in birds
  • On the quest to prevent extinctions: do the costs really outweigh the benefits?
  • Successful decontamination of polyisobutylene exposure with margarine in avian wildlife
  • Anticoagulant rodenticides in birds of prey in Massachusetts, USA: recent findings
  • Medical rescue and applications of falconry techniques during rehabilitation of a wild Bonelli's eagle (Hieraaetus fasciatus) with a chronic tibiotarsal fracture and a cloacal prolapse
  • Development of an eagle detection system for use on wind farms
  • Neurologic disease in raptors: pesticide toxicosis, a cause that is talked about but rarely diagnosed
  • Diagnostic use of fibrinogen levels in brown pelicans (Pelecanus occidentalis)
  • Treatment for bilateral ulcerative pododermatitis in a hooded vulture (Necrosyrtes monarchus)
  • Effects of atorvastatin on plasma lipid profile in Hispaniolan Amazon parrots (Amazona ventralis)
  • Macrorhabdus ornithogaster in a wild yellow-rumped warbler (Setophago coronata)
  • Management of multiple diseases in an aged cockatiel (Nymphicus hollandicus)
  • Low-level laser therapy in backyard chickens: something to crow about (and you can eat the eggs!)
  • Tibiotarsal fracture in a Toco toucan (Ramphastos toco) secondary to nutritional hyperparathyroidism
  • Involvement of birds of prey in the epidemiology of hte lyme disease agent Borrelia burgdorferi: an update
  • Idiopathic splenomegaly in a female hyacinth macaw and a review of splenomegaly in large psittacine birds