BRD Risk vs OpenVet

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.

For the patients who keep you on your toes. OpenVet brings clinical questions, patient records, and veterinary drug reference into one workspace for veterinarians and veterinary students. WORK THROUGH THE CASE Ask about differentials, diagnostic workups, and treatment considerations. Review the answer and inspect the references provided before deciding what comes next. BRING THEIR HISTORY WITH YOU Link a patient to a case so their weight, medications, allergies, diagnoses, and recorded lab results can inform the discussion. Keep supported PDFs and images with the chart, including the original documents. KEEP YOUR FORMULARY CLOSE Look up drug monographs, review interaction warnings, and use weight-based dose tools with displayed reference ranges. Check the primary source before prescribing or administering any medication. MAKE ROOM FOR URGENT QUESTIONS Open the Emergency & Critical Care room for triage, stabilization, and toxicology questions. A CPR metronome provides a pacing tool. SAY THE QUESTION Dictate into the question box, review the transcription, and send when you’re ready. WHO IT’S FOR Accounts are available to licensed veterinarians and veterinary students. US veterinarians provide a state license number. Students and internationally licensed veterinarians can begin while credentials are reviewed. Veterinary technicians and other non-DVM staff cannot create accounts yet. OpenVet provides AI clinical decision support. It can make mistakes and does not replace professional judgment. Verify clinical information, doses, and species-specific guidance against primary sources before acting. Dose calculations are not prescriptions.