FIP: On the ground in Cyprus

This month Nathalie Dowgray is speaking with Dr Panayiotis Mavrikios about the 2023FIP outbreak in Cyprus. We also feature our monthly JFMS clinical spotlight interview in which Dr. Kelly St Denis discusses the AAFP/IAAHPC Feline Hospice and Palliative care guidelines with Diane Eigner and Katrina Breitreiter. To begin our episode, we sit down with an ISFM academy member from Cyprus, DrPanayiotis Mavrikios, as he shares what it has been like seeing this volume of FIP cases,how diagnostics are being selected and what treatment is now available to vets inCyprus.Dr Kelly St Denis is then joined by Dr Diane Eigner and Dr Katrina Breitreiter, theco-chairs of the 2023 AAFP/IAAHPC Feline Hospice and Palliative Care guidelines. Welearn the definitions of hospice care, palliative care and comfort care.For further reading material please visit:https://icatcare.org/fip-outbreak-cyprus/https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37768060/View The Transcript HereHost:Nathalie Dowgray, BVSc, MANZCVS, PgDip, MRCVS, PhD, Head of ISFM, International Society of Feline Medicine, International Cat Care, Tisbury, Wiltshire, UKSpeakers:Panayiotis Mavrikios, DVM MRCVS MANZCVS (Feline), ISFM Academy Member and Small Animal VeterinarianKelly St Denis, MSc, DVM, DABVP (Feline), 2022 ISFM/AAFP Cat Friendly Veterinary Environment Guidelines Co-Chair, St Denis Veterinary Professional Corporation, Powassan, Ontario, CanadaDiane Eigner, VMD MBA CVPM CHPV, Past President of the American Association of Feline Practitioners and owner and founder of The Cat Doctor.Katrina Breitreiter, DVM, DABVP (Feline), Austin's only board-certified specialist in feline practice, and member of the American Association of Feline Practitioners (Plus many more!)For ISFM members, the full recording of this discussion is available for you to listen to at portal.icatcare.org. To become an ISFM member, or find out more about our Cat Friendly schemes, visit icatcare.org

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