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If your canine patient was just diagnosed with heartworm, find out if it is indicated or contraindicated to use slow-kill protocols. Not only is slow kill slow, expensive, and potentially dangerous, but it can result in pulmonary emboli and secondary vascular damage. Dr. Clarke Atkins, DACVIM (Cardiology), discusses the controversy of "slow-kill" for canine heartworm disease.

Canine | Treatment | Veterinary Professionals
Category: Video

As a veterinarian or veterinary technician, should you be performing an antigen heartworm test or a microfilaria test? What test should you use in your canine patient? When should we be performing the process of "heat-treating?" Due to the formation of antibodies against heartworm antigen, the process of heat-treating samples may be necessary in your samples? Dr. Susan Little, clinical parasitologist from Oklahoma State University, discusses the process of heat-treating heartworm samples in dogs.

Canine | Diagnosis | Exotics | Feline | Veterinary Professionals
Category: Video

Watch EyeOn Heartworm Presentations from the 2016 NAVC Symposium.

Canine | Diagnosis | Feline | Prevention | Treatment
Category: Video

Why are heartworms a threat to your dog? This short video explains.

Canine | Diagnosis | Exotics | Feline | Prevention | Treatment
Category: Video

Testing, along with prevention, is an important part of keeping our dogs and cats healthy and free of disease. Here are important facts to know about heartworm disease and heartworm testing.

Canine | Diagnosis | Feline | Pet Owners
Category: Video

Testing, along with prevention, is an important part of keeping our dogs and cats healthy and free of disease. Here are important facts to know about heartworm disease and heartworm testing.

Feline | Pet Owners | Prevention | Treatment | Veterinary Professionals
Category: Video

Heartworm disease is a deadly disease, but it is easy to prevent. This video will help all pet owners understand the importance of year-round protection and the importance of prevention.

Canine | Feline | Pet Owners | Prevention | Veterinary Professionals
Category: Video

How often should veterinarians or veterinary technicians test canine patients for heartworm disease? What should one do when their patient is heartworm positive? Dr. Susan Little, clinical parasitologist from Oklahoma State University, discusses what a positive heartworm test means in dogs.

Canine | Diagnosis | Feline | Veterinary Professionals
Category: Video

When warm weather hits, you will want to ramp up your heartworm education efforts. To help make this goal easy--and fun--the AHS has created a new set of posters to print or post on your social pages.

  • To save or print a poster, just click on the image below, then click on the “download” button and save the PDF file.
  • To save a poster for use on your social pages, simply open the downloaded poster, then right click on the file and follow the menu instructions to save the file as a JPEG image.

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