Surgical safety checklists from concept to implementation

Human error is not predictable, many factors affect our ability to perform at our best. The full integration of the surgical safety checklist to the usual working practice of the hospital would ensure...

Pheromones and 25 years of pheromonotherapy: what are they and how do they work?

Pheromones are biologically active semiochemicals (chemical signals from one organism to another capable of bringing about a change in the recipient organism); they are secreted from the body of one...

How Recognition and Response to a Patient's Body Language and Behaviour can Facilitate Positive Veterinary Visits

The concepts, aims and goals of the PFP initiatives, texts and authors reflect a similar ethos: i.e. of building knowledge, understanding and care for the patient's ethology and its individual...

Let's talk about stress

Stress is an emotional and physiological response to change in an animal's environment (Mills et al, 2013). Such change is brought about by the presence of a ‘stressor’ which can be a stimulus that is...