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Originally Posted by bjh  Crystal  Very well said. Sometimes blood draws are necessary and most vets do draw from the jugular vein. I think the main point is that most people feel that for a healthy puppy it is best to wait until the puppy is at least 2 lbs and preferably around 6 months old. I would never hesitate to have a blood panel done on a sick puppy or a BAT test if the vet felt is was necessary. The blood is drawn the same way but it just requires more blood to be drawn for a BAT test and that is one reason to wait until the puppy is older and weighs more. |
Could you post the link to where you are seeing that a BAT takes more blood than a blood panel?
I am seeing from Dr. Dodds (Antech I think) that a bile acid test is 1 cc per draw, so 2 cc's. If only the postprandial is done it would be 1 cc. Above it are a couple blood panels/cbc's. It looks like these are 2.5 ml. So even doing pre and post bile acids would be less. What am I missing?