VetEmCrit: The Veterinary Emergency & Critical Care Podcast

About VetEmCrit: The Veterinary Emergency & Critical Care Podcast

Practical, evidence-based insights into veterinary emergency and critical care.

Publisher

Dr. Igor Yankin, DACVECC and Dr. Lance Wheeler, DACVECC

Category

health & fitness

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

23 Sept 2025

Latest episode

12 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

31 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   12 Oct 2026

   Episode 31: Patient Suffering in the ICU

   The VetEmCrit Academy built for ER and ICU vets who want to grow, level up, and learn together: https://academy.vetemcrit.com/join (https://academy.vetemcrit.com/join) In this episode of Wheeler the Healer: Small Animal Emergency and Critical Care, Lance Wheeler, DVM, DACVECC explores patient suffering in the veterinary ICU and reframes it as both an ethical and physiologic problem rather than simply an emotional one. Inspired primarily by Chapter 12 of Small Animal Critical Care Medicine, 3rd edition, the episode examines primal alert signals like dyspnea, pain, nausea, thirst, hunger, anxiety, and sleep deprivation, emphasizing that critically ill animals often experience many of these simultaneously. The discussion reviews why air hunger may be more distressing than pain, how untreated nausea and sleep disruption can worsen recovery, and how ICU noise, repeated handling, and hospitalization stress may contribute to physiologic instability. Integrating recent literature on dyspnea-targeted therapy, anxiolytics, feline environmental modification, wireless monitoring, and individualized nursing care, the episode focuses on practical strategies to reduce suffering in real time. Ultimately, the episode argues that comfort-focused interventions are not separate from critical care—they are a fundamental part of stabilizing the critically ill patient. If you enjoy this episode and want the full experience, weekly deep-dives, interactive simulators, and clinical algorithms you can use on shift, come join us inside the VetEmCrit Academy.

2. 

   27 Sept 2026

   Episode 30: Arterial Blood Gas Tool

   The VetEmCrit Academy built for ER and ICU vets who want to grow, level up, and learn together: https://academy.vetemcrit.com/join (https://academy.vetemcrit.com/join) In this episode, Dr. Igor Yankin, DACVECC introduces the new Arterial Blood Gas Analyzer inside the VetEmCrit Academy - a tool built around the question every dyspneic patient forces on you at the cage side: are the lungs failing, is this patient simply not ventilating, or both? And Why? Igor walks through the reasoning the tool automates: the alveolar gas equation, the A–a gradient and where its published normals actually stop, the 120 rule, the P/F and S/F ratios, the oxygenation index and the oxygen saturation index, arterial oxygen content and the patient-specific cyanosis threshold, the full oxygen cascade from ambient air down to arterial blood, and the ARDSVet 2025 screen. He then moves into the practical half: the FiO₂ device estimator that works out inspired oxygen from delivery method and flow rate and names the study each estimate came from, the differential table that works through every mechanism of hypoxemia in turn and states plainly what a blood gas cannot tell you, the button that drops the whole analysis into the medical record as plain text with its caveats attached, printing, serial trending, and the 19 built-in demo cases.

3. 

   25 Sept 2026

   Episode 29: Interstitial Edema

   The VetEmCrit Academy built for ER and ICU vets who want to grow, level up, and learn together: https://academy.vetemcrit.com/join (https://academy.vetemcrit.com/join) This episode explains interstitial edema as altered tissue fluid traffic rather than simply “too much fluid.” It reviews classic and revised Starling physiology, emphasizing the endothelial glycocalyx, sub-glycocalyx space, lymphatic drainage, and why fluid usually returns through lymphatics rather than routine venous-end reabsorption. The episode breaks down the major edemagenic mechanisms—venous hypertension, hypoproteinemia, increased permeability, impaired lymph flow, and increased negativity of interstitial pressure—and connects them to ICU decisions around fluids, albumin, pulmonary edema, effusions, and reassessment. It also highlights key clinical evidence, including fluid risk in pulmonary disease, limitations of albumin and synthetic colloids, canine albumin and cryopoor plasma studies, gallbladder wall thickening in hypoalbuminemic dogs, and Simplified Light’s criteria for feline pleural effusion classification. If you enjoy this episode and want the full experience, weekly deep-dives, interactive simulators, and clinical algorithms you can use on shift, come join us inside the VetEmCrit Academy.

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

5 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

5 ratings

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