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  Keeping One Step Ahead Through Advanced RVN Education

  The RVC recently celebrated the tenth intake of students to the Graduate Diploma in Professional and Clinical Veterinary Nursing. Since its inception, 132 Registered Veterinary Nurses have completed this unique distance learning course. It is designed to enhance RVNs’ knowledge bases, skills and motivation.
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  Canine Pericardial Effusion Biobank for Diagnostic Advancements

  The RVC is compiling a biobank of fluids removed from around the heart, enabling pioneering research aimed at developing new diagnostic tests to help dogs at the RVC and beyond. It appears to be the first such biobank of pericardial effusion (PE) …
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  3D Printed Calf Head Model to Assess Dispersal of Intranasal Vaccine

  Intranasal vaccination is an increasingly used practice in humans, as well as farmed species. Pioneering research at the RVC studied the dispersal of intranasal vaccine in calves.

• Veterinary Cardiology

  The RVC veterinary cardiology service handles specialist clinical cardiac referrals in dogs, cats and other small animals with congenital and acquired cardiac conditions
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  World-First Surgery Combination Saves Puppy

  The RVC’s cardiothoracic surgery team has carried out tricuspid valve repair surgery along with repair of the common atrium of an 11-month-old Labrador puppy. It is the first time these procedures have been carried out on a dog in the same operation. …
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  A European first at the RVC

  A Royal Veterinary College (RVC) team is the first in Europe to save a dog with the life-threatening condition tricuspid valve dysplasia with open heart valve repair surgery.
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  Farm Animal Post Mortems

  At the RVC, we have a long-established Farm Animal Pathology and Diagnostics (FAPD) Service and represent an expert post mortem examination provider for the government’s Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA).
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  Pioneering Reconstructive Surgery and Cryotherapy for Equine Eyelid Tumour

  The Ophthalmology Service is primarily based at RVC Small Animal Referrals but the team also works within RVC Equine to help patients with eye problems. One such case, treated last year, had never before been documented in scientific literature.  …
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  Pioneering Pet Diabetes App

  The Royal Veterinary College has created a revolutionary Pet Diabetes App, which brings veterinary diabetes management into the 21st century to support patients, vets and research.

• Pet microchipping

  RVC Beaumont Sainsbury Animal Hospital and vet practice in Camden London offers pet microchipping services for dogs, cats and other pet animals and birds