Open the guideAdvanced20 min
Checking the emergency crash cart in the clinic
In a cardiac arrest there is no time to search. Here is how to keep the crash cart always complete, orderly and verified, with a repeatable and traceable check.
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Animiyo guides
Clinic operations
These guides describe verifiable practice procedures, designed to be adopted by the whole team without ambiguity about who does what and in which order.
20 guides
- Open the guideIntermediate35 min
Handling lab samples from collection to dispatch
A repeatable flow for the pre-analytical phase: unique identification, the right tube, correct storage and traceability all the way to the external lab.
All species - Open the guideAdvanced50 min
Running the practice dispensary and the controlled drugs register
The dispensary is where a practice touches patient safety, legal duties and the bottom line at once. A written method is what keeps it under control.
All species - Open the guideIntermediate35 min
Running a safe shift handover in a veterinary clinic
Many errors on hospitalised patients start at the shift change, when a detail fails to pass on. A structured handover method cuts omissions and protects the inpatient.
All species - Open the guideAdvanced50 min
Managing surgical instrument sterilisation in the autoclave
An orderly path from dirty instrument to sterile and traceable one, marking the points where a silent error voids the whole cycle and how to catch it.
All species - Open the guideAdvanced60 min
Setting up an environmental cleaning and disinfection protocol for the clinic
Cleaning is not disinfection and disinfection is not sterilisation: a clear protocol cuts cross infection without wasting products or staff time.
All species - Open the guideAdvanced50 min
Setting up waiting room triage in a veterinary clinic
In a full waiting room, whoever arrives first is not whoever is sickest. A simple triage system protects the serious cases and gives the team a shared rule instead of improvised calls.
DogCatAll species - Open the guideAdvanced40 min
Setting up an isolation protocol for infectious patients
Isolation is not a cage at the end of the corridor: it is a planned route, with written rules that hold up even on the busiest shift and with new staff.
All species - Open the guideAdvanced40 min
Collecting and filing informed consent before a procedure
Informed consent is not a signature grabbed in a hurry in the waiting room: it is a process that protects the patient, the owner and the practice.
DogCatAll species - Open the guideAdvanced30 min
Assessing and managing post-operative pain in practice
Surgical pain is treated better when it is measured. A method for building a multimodal analgesia protocol and inpatient monitoring that leaves no gap between one shift and the next.
DogCat - Open the guideAdvanced40 min
Monitoring the patient under anaesthesia in practice
A method for the veterinary team: which parameters to follow under anaesthesia, how to split them between clinical signs and monitor, and how to record trends.
DogCat - Open the guideIntermediate50 min
Managing stock and supply ordering in a veterinary clinic
Running out of gauze mid procedure and throwing away expired boxes are the same problem, a store with no method. Here is how to build one that runs itself.
All species - Open the guideIntermediate35 min
Managing clinical waste and disposal in a veterinary practice
A method that turns waste handling from a source of risk and fines into a traced routine, from separation at the moment of production through to collection.
All species - Open the guideIntermediate30 min
Preparing the room and instruments for a procedure
Most hold ups during a procedure begin earlier, in the setup. A methodical preparation of the room and the instruments prevents them.
DogCatAll species - Open the guideIntermediate40 min
Managing the vaccine cold chain in a veterinary practice
A badly stored vaccine does not protect, yet looks identical to a good one: here is how to build a reliable, distraction proof cold chain in the practice.
All species - Open the guideAdvanced35 min
Running telephone triage for urgent requests
On the phone you do not diagnose, you decide who must come in now. Here is how to give staff a data gathering script, a priority scale and a way to document every call.
All species - Open the guideIntermediate35 min
Preparing an estimate the owner can actually read
Bills are rarely disputed over the total, they are disputed over a line nobody understood. Here is how to write the items, the ten step procedure and the five document states.
All species - Open the guideIntermediate50 min
Running a vaccine recall across a list of patients
An overdue booster is not lost because the owner forgot, it is lost because nobody holds a list. Here is how to build one, calculate the dates and call in order of risk.
DogCat - Open the guideIntermediate20 min
Preparing a discharge with instructions the owner understands
Home treatment usually fails at the door, not at the pharmacy. Here is the structure of the form, the language to use and the spoken check before the owner leaves.
DogCat - Open the guideIntermediate30 min
Writing a SOAP record that still works months later
A record is judged when a colleague reads it six months later. Here is the correct split between the four sections, the nine step procedure and the review checklist.
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