​Ann Wortinger, BIS, LVT, VTS (ECC, IM - Small Animal, Nutrition), FFCP

Topics for articles or lectures:

Emergency/Critical Care:

• Fluid Therapy
• Two weeks to Recovery: Dusty’s post-arrest story

 
Internal Medicine:

• Addison’s disease
• Cachexia in the Chronically Ill Patient
• Diabetes Mellitus
• Diarrhea: The mystery within
• Feline Heartworm Disease: Fact or Fiction
• Gastrointestinal Microbiome
• Hepatic Lipidosis
• Hyperlipidemia
• Inflammatory Bowel Disease
• Nutritional Management of Patients with Vomiting and Diarrhea
• Pancreatitis
• Plus and minus of Electrolytes
• Refeeding Syndrome 

Miscellaneous:

• Abnormal CBCs- All’s cell that ends well
• Backyard Chickens: A technician’s guide to pet fowl
• Cooking with Blood Chemistries- What your machines are telling you
• Counseling clients in crisis
• Disinfection and Disease
• Domestication of the cat
• Domestication of the cat and dog
• Domestication of the dog
• Intravenous Catheters: Indications, Types and Care
• Is a VTS in your Future?
• Rabies: How scared should you be? 
• Zoonosis: What is all the fuss about?

                                   
Nutrition:

• Calculate Nutritional Requirements
• Cats- Obligate carnivore
• Decoding a Pet Food Label
• Feeding Puzzles- Enrichment and nutrition all in one!
• Feeding the vomiting patient
• Feeding Tube management and complications 
• Grain-free diets and Dilated Cardiomyopathy- What do we know? 
• Ins and out of Feeding Tubes
• Nutrition and Acid-Base Balance
• Nutrition and the Canine Athlete
• Nutrition Myths
• Nutritional Management of Vomiting and Diarrhea in Dogs and Cats
• Nutritional support
• Prebiotics and Probiotics: What can they really do for the dog and cat
• Raw Food Diets: Fact versus Fiction

           
Dry labs:

• Feeding tube use and maintenance
• Calculating feeding requirements
• CBC review

           
Other IM/nutrition topics can be done by request

Location:  Detroit, MI

Contact: annewortinger@aol.com