Module 13 Wk 1

Question 1

(Digital professionalism)

Define Profession?

Answer 1

a paid occupation, especially one that involves prolonged training and a formal qualification

Question 2

What is a Professional?

Answer 2

worthy of or appropriate to a professional person; competent, skilful, or assured

Question 3

What is digital professionalism?

Answer 3

Loosely defined as “the competence or values expected of a professional when engaged in social and digital communication”

Question 4

What is digital communication?

Answer 4

Encompasses all technology that can be used to share opinions and insights, information, knowledge, ideas and interests and enables the building of communities and networks.

Question 5

what are the three things that professionals should follow a framework structured

Answer 5

Prolifiency, reputation and responsibility

Question 6

(Interpretations of Diagnostic Images)

what does increasing the amount of X-rays reaching film do?

Answer 6

increases film blackening

Question 7

whats the order of tissue radio-opacity from the greatest to lowest?

Answer 7

• metal
• Bone
• soft tissue
• fat
• gas

Question 8

what can be the consequence of inadequate image quality

Answer 8

• Can cause false positives or negatives
• Can affect all imagaing modalities

Question 9

what is the three stage approach to images

Answer 9

Regcognition, Report and Interpretate?Analyse

Question 10

Describe how you would apply the first stage, recognition, to the image

Answer 10

Systematically search the entitre image via a system by system approach and within the systems and area by area approach.

Question 11

Decribe how you would apply stage 2, report, to assessing the image.

Answer 11

This is where you identify abnormalities from your search of image. This will to be to do with size, shape, numbers, position, opacity and internat stucture and functions of organs.

Question 12

Decribe how you would apply stage 3, interpretation, to assessing the image

Answer 12

Generate differentials for all abnormalities found with the most likely diagnoses at top

Question 13

Whats the Pros and cons of knowing the history when assessing the image?

Answer 13

Pros
- Better ability to recognise and dismiss incidental lesions
- Earlier refinement of differential lists
Cons
- Risk of bias: Expecting specific findings, Over-reading images and Temptation to finish examination when suspected lesion found

Question 14

Whats the Pros and Cons of not knowing the history when assessing the image?

Answer 14

Pros
- No bias to particular disease
- Less likely to terminate examination early
Cons
- Longer and less structured differential lists- Potential to cloud clinical picture

Question 15

What are the 4 common errors in image interpretations?

Answer 15

1. search errors
2. under-reading (judgement) errors
3. over-reading (judgement) errors
4. Analysis Errors

Question 16

(Managing and Principles for Managing Behaviour Problems)

Define Aggression

Answer 16

An interaction between the dog/cat and a person/ other animal, initiated by the dog/cat, which has resulted in, or could potentially result in, injury/fright/trauma.

Question 17

What treatment is there of anxiety?

Answer 17

• Desensitisation
• Relaxation therapy
• Environmental enrichment

Question 18

What may you suggest to a client if coping strategies/ behaviour modifications are not working?

Answer 18

• Pheromones
• Supplements
• Behaviour modifying medication

Question 19

(seperation Problems)

What are clear signs that a dog is feeling anxious when you leave them?

Answer 19

• yowling
• Self mutilation
• Destroying things
• aggression when the owner is leaving

Question 20

What are the causes of Seperation anxiety?

Answer 20

• Hyper attachment
• Over attachment
• Failure to develop coping stratagies
• Fear of being alone
• Adverse events when alone

Question 21

T/F having another pet might help with a dogs seperation anxiety?

Answer 21

True is the dogs anxiety stems from being alone

Question 22

Describe the principles of Desensitisation

Answer 22

• Find the lowest level - might start from as soon as you pick up car keys
• repeat until they are happy with the lowest level
• then repeat and increase
• dont jump and expose them to the full limit until they are ready and worked up to it

Question 23

What are the licensed medications for seperation anxiety?

Answer 23

• Clomipramine
• Fluoxetine
• Selegeline

Question 24

(The Approach to Behavioral Problems and The Social and Clinical Causes of Behaviour Problems in Domesticated and Companion Animals)

what are the 4 main behavioural problems?

Answer 24

• Aggression
• Anxiety
• Attention seeking
• Compulsive
• Withdrawl

Question 25

What behvioural problem puts animals most at risk of euthanasia?

Answer 25

Aggression

Question 26

Describe Withdrawl behaviours

Answer 26

Learned helplessness occuring when animal has been or is being abused/neglected and have tried attention seeking behaviour or other types of behaviour and it has not helped their situation so they resort to helplessness as they feel they cannot do anything to change their situation

Question 27

What are the socal and enviromental causes of behavioural problems in dogs?

Answer 27

• socailisation
• Attitude to resources and control
• Trauma
• Fustration
• Breed tendency
• Handling
• Learned traits
• Over/Under stimulation

Question 28

What are the socail and enviromental causes of behavioural problems in cats?

Answer 28

• core territory
• trauma, threat and change
• relationships

Question 29

What are the clinical causes of behavioural problems in cats and dogs?

Answer 29

• pain
• dietry sensitive
• hormonal - sex
• hormonal - endocrine
• neurological
• cardiac disease
• urogenitial tract
• sensory
• hepatic
• cognitive dysfunction
• latrogenic