The BVOA Podcast

Duncan and Simon sat down with Mark Glyde at the BVOA Autumn conference - this is the first of two episodes from that discussion. We hear about Mark's career, AO and BVOA. we had a discussion re practical tips on how to avoid and then deal with damage to the popliteal artery, and discuss Evans' paper on effective plate bone distance and working length.
MolesGlyde popliteal paper.pdf
 
Evans Effect of Plate–Bone Distance and Working Length on 2.0-mm Locking Construct Stiffness and Plate Strain in a Diaphyseal Fracture Gap Model- A Biomechanical Study Alecia Evans.pdf

Mark Morton, RCVS specialist in Orthopaedics, joins us to talk about his career and the canine cruciate registry. We also discuss our orthopaedic heroes and an interesting paper on surgical vs conservative management of cruciate rupture.
Link to the paper is here https://tinyurl.com/38uev5vs
Canine cruciate registry website: https://ccr.rcvsknowledge.org/
 

Matt Hibberd runs Rata Veterinary Surgery, a large group of peripatetic surgeons based in the South of England. He joins Simon and Duncan to talk about his career, his peripatetic group as well as discuss an interesting paper on complications and longterm outcomes of combined TPLO and TTT.
Link for paper here: https://tinyurl.com/mr24jxw5
 

Heather Eastham joins Simon and Duncan for episode 5 where we're talking about revision surgery...which happens to be the title of this year's BVOA autumn meeting. We each share a case with complications and discuss. You can easily access all the xrays we're talking about here https://photos.app.goo.gl/zpgYiZskM4PuuXsf7
Heather is an advanced practitioner working in first opinion/referral practice in Yorkshire. We hear about her career, her thoughts on being an advanced practitioners and her time on the BVOA committee. 

Specialist small animal surgeon Abbie Tipler joins Simon and Duncan from Brisbane Australia! Abbie set up the small animal surgery discussion group on Facebook in 2015, it now has 9000 members from all over the world discussing surgical cases. We hear about Abbie's career, how she set the group up and how she maintains it. We also discussed women in orthopaedics - how do we encourage more female vets into orthopaedics? Then we all chatted about two interesting papers on humeral intracondylar fissures in French Bulldogs. 
Links to the papers:
 J of Small Animal Practice - 2024 - Hutchings - Computed tomographic re‐evaluation of skeletally immature French bulldogs.pdf
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11405096/?utm_source=chatgpt.com
Facebook group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/smallanimalsurgery.org/
 

In this episode Simon and Duncan talk to the Senior Vice Chairman of BVOA and RCVS specialist in orthopaedics Mark Bush. Mark tells us about his career and the BVOA mentoring scheme. We also discussed using CT modelled guides and plates, intraoperative radiography, shoulder arthrodesis, as well as two interesting radial fracture cases recently discussed on the BVOA discussion group. The xrays discussed can be accessed here https://tinyurl.com/3jatbses
If you're interested in being a mentor, or being mentored in the BVOA scheme, contact Mark - mark@eoevets.com
 

For part two of our librela discussions we were delighted to interview Louise Clark, a specialist anaesthetist who was a co-author on the paper 'Musculoskeletal adverse events in dogs receiving Bedinvetmab (Librela).' We also chat about Louise’s career, explore pain management more broadly, delve into stem cell treatment, and pick up some handy tips for anaesthetising patients undergoing orthopaedic surgery.
Link to the paper here :
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/veterinary-science/articles/10.3389/fvets.2025.1581490/full

Welcome to our first episode of the BVOA podcast! We're delighted to have Professor John Innes on as a guest to talk to us about his recent paper on Bedinvetmab, or Librela. There is plenty of debate about this drug currently and this is the first of two episodes that we have done on it. Enjoy :-)
Link to the paper is here https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/veterinary-science/articles/10.3389/fvets.2025.1502218/full