Dr Benedetta Crivellari, who helps lead the Southpaws Pain Clinic alongside Dr Sébastien Bauquier, recently attended the Australian Small Animal Veterinarians (ASAV) Annual Conference, where she led a workshop exploring a more comprehensive and compassionate approach to pain management. The [...]
September in Melbourne means finals footy, and with it the usual talk about form, pressure, and knee injuries. There is one acronym every football fan dreads hearing: ACL. Dogs are not sprinting onto the MCG, but cranial cruciate ligament disease [...]
The cases may bring you here, but it’s the people who make you want to stay. Emergency and Critical Care is not for everyone. The work is fast-moving, unpredictable, and sometimes very hard. It asks a lot of you clinically, [...]
Can you tell us a little about your background and what led you into Emergency & Critical Care? I started my career in mixed practice in Ireland, where I worked for several years before embarking [...]
Gall bladder mucocoele is the most common indication for gall bladder surgery in dogs. It develops when there is hypersecretion of abnormally thick mucus from the gall bladder epithelim. This gelatinous material accumulates, progressively filling the lumen and often extending [...]
You've grown your career at Southpaws, starting as an intern and now stepping into a Junior Registrar role. Can you tell us a little about that journey? Journey has been long but extremely rewarding. I was [...]
1. Can you tell us a little about your journey from USA to Melbourne and what brought you to Southpaws? I visited Melbourne in late 2023 and immediately loved the city. I wasn’t planning a move, but when a [...]
Bobo, a 4-year-old dog, was referred to Southpaws Malvern with a congenital heart condition that had gone undetected far longer than usual. His referring veterinarian had identified a loud heart murmur, and an echocardiogram revealed a Patent Ductus Arteriosus (PDA). [...]
A total hip replacement case shows why teamwork, communication and psychological safety – not technical skill alone – determine surgical outcomes at Southpaws.
Gastrointestinal emergencies involving foreign body obstructions can be complex and highly dynamic cases. Patients may present markedly unstable, with the potential for rapid deterioration, and the ultimate prognosis often remains uncertain until full surgical findings are known. These situations can [...]
