Mirinda van Schoor

Senior Lecturer and Head of Section, Small Animal Internal Medicine, University of Pretoria, Onderstepoort, South Africa

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How to manage indwelling feeding tubes in critically ill dogs and cats

Nasogastric (NG) or nasoesophageal (NE) feeding tubes are indicated in cases where short-term (< 7–10 days) assisted feeding is required and where general anaesthesia is contraindicated (Figure 1)...

Early enteral nutrition in puppies with parvovirus enteritis

In CPV enteritis, infection with parvovirus is acquired by the faecal-oral route of transmission (Goddard and Leisewitz, 2010). By the third to fifth day viraemia is marked, with CPV preferentially...