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your system.
Customize
patient care using our new 12-test boxes of VetTest®
slides.
All 21 of our VetTest chemistry slides are available in 12-test boxes,
providing you with convenient access to the full menu of tests for
individualized patient care.
Your
VetTest®
analyzer supports NSAID monitoring—a standard of care recommended
by NSAID manufacturers
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Quite often these days, your clients are being exposed to new,
powerful pain treatments for their pets. Recently, Zubrin™,
Metacam®, Deramaxx® and Rimadyl®
injectable have joined original Rimadyl and Etogesic®
as effective pain treatments. While these treatments have proven
effective, they also come with cautions and manufacturer-recommended
protocols for safe dosing, monitoring and outcomes.
Source: The Practical Approach to Drug Monitoring, researched
and created by Dr. Ernest Ward, Jr. You can obtain a copy from IDEXX
Customer Support.
It is generally recommended that patients on NSAIDs receive a
baseline test, a 14-day check and a follow-up every six months while
on NSAIDs. A December article in DVM magazine noted that each
of these medications includes guidance similar to this: "Two-week
trials of various NSAIDs (nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs) with
adequate animal evaluation should be performed to determine which
medication provides the best response. Before prescribing any
medications, the animal's health status, especially liver and kidney
function, should be assessed. It is important to educate owners
regarding potential side effects."1
Your IDEXX VetTest® analyzer's testing flexibility
allows you to quickly and economically perform recommended baseline
exams, and regular kidney and liver monitoring. The IDEXX
FlexTest™ NSAID panel is a recommended combination of the single
chemistries: ALKP, ALT, AST, BUN and CREA—chosen because they're
standard tests for indicating damage and/or disease in the liver and
kidneys.
Contact your IDEXX distributor to purchase the FlexTest NSAID
panel—and to learn how you can save up to 20% on your individual
chemistry purchases with the FlexTest program.
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Make a Note
The VetTest's Monitor Patient feature offers a quick view of health
changes over time
The Monitor Patient feature allows you to keep
track of a single patient's IDEXX VetLab results and print them out
together for a quick comparison of changes over time. This is very
useful for:
- Serial blood glucose monitoring
- Cortisol pre- and post-ACTH stimulation on the SNAP®
Reader
- Electrolyte monitoring with the IDEXX VetLyte®
- Monitoring response to long-term medications, such as NSAIDs
- Trending renal recheck tests, such as BUN and CREA
Here's a brief user's guide:
- Run patient blood work as normal by selecting New Sample
from the main menu.
- When results are ready, select the Monitor Patient
option from the Results screen. This will create a file to help you
track this patient. Make a note of the patient ID so you can enter it
accurately later.
- When runing blood work again on the same patient, you do not need
to initiate the run by selecting Monitor Patient. You just need to
make sure you select the Monitor Patient option at the end of the
run.
- Run blood work as prompted.
- After you have run the second blood work, print out all results
for that patient by selecting Monitor Patient from
the main menu and then selecting Print Results. You
will need to type the patient's name again.
The report will print out on the VetTest's internal printer.
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Meet Two IDEXX Support Team Members
 IDEXX has
over 100 customer and technical support representatives available to
answer your call. Here are two of the team members who train them.
Rob Lord and Candie Turner, trainers and quality coaches, have been
involved in IDEXX customer support for many years. Rob has been with
IDEXX for 17 years, and his former roles included sales and service
representative and SNAP® floor planner in operations.
Candie has been with IDEXX for over nine years—all in the
customer support area. Together, Rob and Candie help our
representatives develop up-to-date expertise on IDEXX products and
services.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Why should I upgrade my VetTest software immediately when I
receive a new disk?
Each time you upgrade your VetTest software, you ensure that you
have the most recent information you need.
Our team is dedicated to calibrating each new lot of VetTest slides
before you receive them. Your software disk contains
this new calibration information. Without current calibration
information, it's not possible to run new lots fo slides.
Additionally, IDEXX periodically updates the VetTest's reference
ranges based on data we collect from VetTest users' software disks
that are returned to us (like yours!)
To sum it up, your software update allows you to continue providing
quick and accurate results—test after test, patient after
patient.
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