Pamela Wilkins
Professor, Veterinary Clinical Medicine
Section Head, Equine Medicine & Surgery
Professional Interests: Cardiovascular and respiratory problems of the critically ill foal or horse; respiratory diseases and problems of horses, equine infectious diseases; lactate metabolism and bacterial blood cultures in foals and adult horses as indicators of disease severity and prognosis.
Selected Publications:
*denotes senior author
Henderson ISF, Franklin RP, Boston RC, Wilkins PA*. Association of hyperlactataemia with age, diagnosis and survival in equine neonates. Journal of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care, In press 2008.
Johns I, Tennent-Brown B, Dallap Schaer BL, Southwood LL, BostonRC, Wilkins PA*. Blood culture status in adult horses with diarrhea: Association with survival. Equine Veterinary Journal, In press 2008.
Hollis AR, Dallap-Schaer BL, Boston RC, Wilkins PA. Comparison of Point-of-Care, Blood Gas and Laboratory Methods of Analysis of Glucose Measurement in Equine Emergency Patients. Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine, 2008; 22(5):1203-1209.
Hollis AR, Wilkins PA*, Palmer JE Boston RC. Bacteremia in Equine Neonatal Diarrhea: a retrospective study (1990-2007). Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine, 2008; 22(5):1189-1185.
Wong DM, Belgrave R, Williams KJ, Del Piero F, Alcott C, Bolin SR, Marr C, Nolen-Walston R, Myers RK, Wilkins PA*. Equine multinodular pulmonary fibrosis in five horses. Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, 2008; 232:898-905.
Ross J, Palmer JE, Wilkins PA*. Retrospective study of body wall tears in late pregnant mares. Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, 2008, 232(2):257–261.
Johns IC, Del Piero F, Wilkins PA*. Hepatic Encephalopathy in a pregnant mare: identification of histopathological changes in the brain of the mare and the fetus. Australian Veterinary Journal. 2007;85(8):337-340.
Tennent-Brown BS, Wilkins PA*, Lindborg S, Russell G, Boston RC. Assessment of a point-of-care lactate monitor in adult equine emergency admissions to a referral hospital. Journal Veterinary Internal Medicine. 2007;21:1090–1098.
Russell C, Palmer JE, Boston RC, Wilkins PA*. Agreement between point-of-care glucometry, blood gas and laboratory based measurement of glucose in an equine neonatal intensive care unit. Journal Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care. 2007;17(3):236-242.
Jesty SA, Wilkins PA*, Palmer JE, and Reef VB. Persistent truncus arteriosus in two Standardbred foals. Equine Veterinary Education. 2007;19(6):307-311.
