MN Urolith vs BRD Risk

The Minnesota Urolith Center, in partnership with Hill’s Pet Nutrition, provides complementary urolith analysis and science supported treatment recommendations to veterinarians worldwide. For more than 30 years, this diagnostic service has been offered without cost to veterinary hospitals through a longstanding partnership between Hill’s Pet Nutrition and The Minnesota Urolith Center at the University of Minnesota, College of Veterinary Medicine. Largely with the support of an annual educational grant from Hill’s Pet Nutrition, and voluntary contributions by pet owners and veterinarians worldwide, we provide a valuable benefit directly to practitioners: quantitative analysis of patients’ uroliths. The application is exclusively for veterinarians and veterinary support staff. It requires an existing account on the main system at www.urolithcenter.org. Use the same email and password to access the iPhone application, enabling convenient viewing of the status of recent submissions. One click allows easy retrieval of reports and recommendations wherever you may be—in the clinic or on the go. Use the main system to enter patient information prior to submitting a urolith. Then use the App to: 1. View the status: - Patient information Entered and sample in transit - Sample received and analysis underway - Analysis Completed 2. Retrieve completed results: send the pdf to your electronic record system, or directly to the pet owner! 3. View Recommendations your way: either a concise version that helps you plan prevention strategies or a detailed version which explainins the science behind the prevention strategy The Minnesota Urolith Center and Hill’s Pet Nutrition—Urolith Answers at your fingertips.

Bovine respiratory disease (BRD) is a multifactorial disease that challenges the US dairy industry with negative impact on calf health and welfare before and after weaning. Despite the current advances in vaccines and therapeutic agents, BRD continues to be a great burden with significant animal health, welfare and economic consequences The complex etiology and numerous factors associated with BRD call for a herd-specific approach for BRD prevention and control. The BRD Risk application takes a comprehensive approach for BRD control and prevention providing decision makers several tools including the California (CA) BRD Scoring System for preweaned calves, the prevalence estimation tool, and finally the BRD Risk Assessment tool. The CA BRD Scoring system is a validated scoring system to identify BRD score positive preweaned dairy calves. The prevalence estimation tool can be used to assess a random sample of preweaned dairy calves for BRD and report the prevalence of BRD score positive calves and its level of certainty as 95% confidence interval. The BRD Risk Assessment tool allows decision makers to assess a comprehensive list of risk factors across different management practices related to BRD. The risk assessment questions that identify risk scores are each followed by an entry field for planned interventions that are summarized in a final report that can be shared by email. The final report also contrasts the herd scores, overall and stratified by management area, against a reference cohort of herds with known BRD risk. All methods used in developing the BRD Risk application have been published (see References in About section). The BRD Risk is also available in multiple languages.