8- Complications of surgical contraception

Question 1

Give a complication seen during surgery

Answer 1

Anaesthesia related
Bleeding
Damage to other organs

Question 2

How would you control bleeding in the bitch?

Answer 2

Increase surgical exposure
Use suction
Stay calm
Assistance
Lift up duodenum (dam manoeuvres) to look at ovarian pedicle
Retract bladder to look at cervical stump
re-ligate

Consider fluids

Question 3

How would you control bleeding in the stallion

Answer 3

Grasp spermatic cord stump with artery forceps
Re-ligate

Question 4

Name a anaesthesia complication seen during recovery

Answer 4

Hypothermia
Arrhythmias
Hypoventilation
Hypotension
Difficult recovery

Question 5

Name 3 complications seen shortly after surgery.

Answer 5

Wound inflammation
Scrotal haematoma
Wound infection
Wound breakdown

Question 6

Name 2 long term complications seen after surgery

Answer 6

Surgical materials left behind
Bitch = Flank fistula
Stallion = chronic inf. of cord
Pyogranuloma
- Bitch - red/brown discharge

Question 7

Name 2 consequences of removing the gonads

Answer 7

Increased risk of some diseases
- urinary incontinence, neoplasia, joint disease, growth plate fractures

Body confirmation changes

Question 8

Name 2 complications that can be seen in recovery

Answer 8

Bleeding = into abdomen/from incision

Herniation
Eventration (prolapse of intestine through incision)