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What is the best way to clear an airway of vomit or mucous or blood?

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Swab on forceps

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How do you position the head for a good airway?

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Head and neck in straight line, tongue pulled out esp brachy

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Why are inhaled grass seeds an urgent problem?

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Can’t get out after terminal bronchi

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Are breathing problems usually LRT or URT?

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URT

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How will animals stand if struggling to breathe?

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Elbows out

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What should you immediately do for an open thorax?

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Cover with with towels and don’t bind chest

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What should you immediately do for a flail chest?

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Sternal recumbency, padding, analgesia

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What should you immediately do for a tension pneumothorax?

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Give oxygen and immediate thoracocentesis in sternal recumbency

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What are the problems with improvised O2 tents?

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Can get hot, allow CO2 buildup

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How far in must nasal catheters go?

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To the medial canthus of the eye

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What are the problems with nasal catheters?

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Need a buster collar, bypasses turbinates so no humidity, can only do up to 4L/min

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What do you immediately do in a cut carotid artery?

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Inject local and put on artery forceps

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When is the only time you should use a tourniquet?

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If you can’t control by pressure (if arterial)

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What should you do instead of cardiac massage in a horse or cow?

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Jump on them

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What should you avoid in a hypovolaemic patient?

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Rapid warming

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What should you put underneath a cold animal?

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A towel

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What should you be checking in a HL fracture?

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Bladder, sacral plexus etc

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What should you be checking in a FL fracture?

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Pneumothorax

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What should you do to open fractures before transport?

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Cover

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What can you do to a fracture below the elbow or stifle to help you examine it?

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Apply a modified Robert Jones bandage for immobilisation and this also gives pain relief

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With what kind of fractures should you be mindful of internal haemorrhage and possibly give fluids?

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Humeral, femoral or pelvic

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What should you immobilise in a spinal fracture?

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The whole body - strap to parcel shelf - also sedation to help

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What other condition can resemble a spinal injury?

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Concussion

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When can standing on a nail in a horse be life threatening?

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If punctures navicular bursa as difficult to control infection

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When are skin wounds in horses life threatening?
If tendon sheath affected - look for joint fluid
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What are the three locations choking can be?
Oropharynx, trachea or osophagus
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Why should you give fluids in choke?
Can dehydrate
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What should you do if seizuring over 5 minutes?
Prevent body temp increase, rectal or IV diazepam (or midazolam or propofol or alfax), also test glucsoe
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What do you do with a prolapsed globe?
Put it back in if acute with a damp swab, may need to cut lateral canthus and suture the eyelid shut after
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What happens if an eye is out for too long?
Tissues will swell and will be traction on optic nerve
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What can you put on a prolapsed eye to prevent oedema?
10% dextrose or saline
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What should you do with a penetrating eye injury?
Refer to an ophthalmic surgen!
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What drugs should you avoid if you have a penetrating ophthalmic injury?
Anything that raises IOP e.g. medetomidine as this causes vomiting
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What must you consider in a severe ear injury?
Head injury
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What can be a complication of adder bites?
Tissue necrosis
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What drugs do you give in anaphylactic shock?
Adrenaline and steroids
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When do you give steroids following a bite or sting?
If indicated
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What are signs of anaphylactic shock?
Retching, dyspnoea, vomiting, facial oedema, collapse, shock
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What do you give if wasp and what if bee?
Acid if wasp, bicarb if bee
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Above what temperature is considered heat stroke?
41 degrees
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What are the signs of heat stroke?
Panting, tachycardia, dehydration, purple dry MMs, V/D
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What blood changes can you see in heat stroke?
High Na, low K, azotaemia, high PCV
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What are the eventual complications of heat stroke?
Renal failure, DIC, coma, death
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What are the immediate treatments for heat stroke?
Cooling by keeping adding water, monitor temp to avoid hypothermia, give cool IV fluids
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Why don’t you give hypotonics in heat stroke?
Get cerebral oedema
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What other output must you monitor in heatstroke?
Urine output
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Why are coma/seizures a poor prognosis in heat stroke?
Ca recycling and mitochondrial death
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How do you treat chemical burns?
Lavage, prevent ingestion, seek vpis advice, give IVFT, analgesia, monitor urine
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How do you cool thermal burns?
Cold water for 10 mins
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Why do you cover burns with wet towels?
Air makes pain worse
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What must you also check for in thermal burns?
Smoke inhalation
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When should you consider euthanasia following a burn?
If full thickness over 30-50% of body
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What is a good analgesic for burns?
Ketamine as also prevents neuropathic pain
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What is a common complication of burns?
Infection
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What happens when you inhale hair in a fire?
Oedema and swelling
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When is a pulse ox not reliable?
Following CO in a fire
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What is the treatment for smoke inhalation?
100% o2 humidified, fluids, steroids, furosemide, bronchodilators
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What do MMs look like following CO inhalation?
Cherry red or cyanotic
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What are some consequences of electrocution?
Arrythmia/bradycardia, tissue destruction, acute pulmonary oedema
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How do you monitor following electrocution?
Put on ECG
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When should you not induce vomiting?
If corrosive substance
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What do you do instead if corrosive substance?
Ring VPIS, give charcoal, give IVFT
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What must you check for in a cast animal?
Fractures
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What can some complications of a cast animal be?
Weak, exhausted, cold, dehydrated, myopathy
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How do you treat a cast animal?
IVFT for dehydration and hypovolaemia
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What should an owner do if they see erythema around a tick bite?
Go to vets

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