Guidelines

WSAVA Global Guidelines support companion animal veterinarians by setting minimum standards of care for conditions or issues of global relevance and recommending best practice in each area. They aim to provide clinicians with clear diagnostic and treatment guidelines, wherever in the world they are in practice.

Animal Welfare Guidelines

These Global Guidelines aim to bridge differing perceptions of welfare around the world and help veterinary teams to tackle the ethical questions and moral issues which impact welfare.

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Dental Guidelines

These Global Guidelines aim to highlight the importance of veterinary dentistry and give advice on best practice to raise standards of dental practice around the world.

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A cat with a disease of the digestive system applied for endoscopic examination. The veterinarian performs a cat gastroscopy under anesthesia. A gastroscope probe is inserted into the cat's mouth..

Gastrointestinal Guidelines

These global standards for the histopathological evaluation of the gastrointestinal tract of dogs and cats provide a wide range of benefits, including uniform diagnosis of disease, staging of disease, and the development of controlled clinical trials for the treatment of gastrointestinal disorders.

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Hereditary Disease Guidelines

These guidelines encourage veterinarians, veterinary teams and breeders to adopt ‘health-conscious’ breeding and ensure the optimum use of genetic testing and counselling to control hereditary diseases and genetic predispositions in dogs and cats.

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Liver Disease Guidelines

The guidelines are the global standard for the histological evaluation of liver tissues for liver diseases of dogs and cats, including unified nomenclature, well-defined histological diagnostic criteria, and precise definitions of chronicity stages and grades of disease.

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Nutrition Guidelines

These Global Guidelines aim to help veterinary teams ensure that pets are fed according to an optimal and individually tailored nutrition plan. They also offer advice to support owner compliance.

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Pain Guidelines

These guidelines help veterinary teams to understand the importance of pain management for patient health and welfare and offer the latest thinking on the treatment of pain.

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Professional Wellness Guidelines

These Global Guidelines offer an evidence-based overview of the elements that contribute to the current challenges around health and wellbeing in the companion animal veterinary sector globally. They also highlight wellbeing resources already available for veterinary leaders, team members and students.

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Vaccination Guidelines

These Global Guidelines set out the latest scientific thinking on the vaccination of dogs and cats globally and give practical advice to veterinarians on optimum vaccination practice.

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