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So I'm delighted to say that joining Brian and myself in the studio we have Professor Dan Chan,

who's the head of department here of clinical science and services at the Royal Vet College

and been my boss for about 11 years. But anyway, and we're delighted to have him in the studio

and we thought we'd talk to him about anti-coagulants, although we could talk to him about a number of different things.

So thank you very much, Dan, for coming here to have a chat with us.

No, it's my pleasure. I'd love to talk about some of these things, including anticoagulants and what we've been working on.

So you're part of the, I came up with the curative sort of guidelines that was recently published in JVEC this year.

Could you maybe explain what that is and how he came about?

Yeah, of course.

So obviously we wanted to look at, are we following best evidence in our

recommendations to use anticoagulans? So we came up with the idea of developing a consensus

guidelines. So curative is actually the acronym for consensus on the rational use of antithrombotics in veterinary critical care.

So what the aim of the initiative was to get a collection of experts, so people that were working on the field,

to sit down and agree definitions and parameters that guide the use of anticoagulans. So we decided that we needed to

take this idea and separate different components. So we created five different domains with this initiative. And one of the

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