Bovine Esophageal, Rumenotoy, Pericarditis Flashcards
Clinical Signs of Esophageal Choke:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
- Bloat
- Salivation
- Coughing/retching
- Extended head and neck
- Protruding tongue
Two main DDx for Esophageal Choke?
Pharyngeal trauma, RABIES
3 Main complications of Esophageal Choke:
1.
2.
3.
- Unable to eructate = bloat
- Loss of saliva = metabolic acidosis
- Aspiration pneumonia
Esophageal Choke: Tx:
Medical:
1. ___ retrevial.
- Use ___ to retrieve
- Push….
4.
- manual (if proximal esophagus)
- wire snare
- into rumen with stomach tube
Main surgery to treat esophageal choke?
When should you consider it?
Esophagotomy
If medical tx options have all been exhausted, because it is a sx with many complications
2 main things you should be doing during initial treatment of choke?
Decompress rumen and hold off feed and water
Layers of the esopagus:
1.
2.
3.
4.
- Adventitial layer
- Muscular layer
- Submucosa
- Mucosa
Structures that are anatomically closely associated with the esophagus in Bovines:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
- recurrent laryngeal nerve
- Carotid sheath
- Vagosympathetic trunk
- Tracheal lymphatic trunk
- Deep cervical lymph node
Esophageal Surgery is an (simple/complex) sx. Why?
Complex.
no serosal layer, constant movement, proximity of laryngeal n, required constant suture line technique, it’s dirty.
Describe the steps of a cervical esophagotomy up to removal of FB
Pass tube to obstruction,
exteriorize and isolate affected region of esophagus
Linear incision into esophagus over healthy tissue (if possible)
Remove FB
Closure of cervical esophagotomy:
If healthy tissue?
If compromised tissue?
May need to place…..
Close normally
Leave to heal by 2nd intention
rumen fistula
Cervical esophagotomy with 1° Repair:
Performed with animal in what position?
standing sedation
Cervical esophagotomy with 1° Repair:
Surgical approach?
Lateral/ventrolateral
Cervical esophagotomy with 1° Repair:
Upon incision, seperates into how many layers? What are those layers?
2 layers, the muscular layer and mucosa/submucosal layer
Cervical esophagotomy with 1° Repair:
Closure technique?
PDS to close, bury knots in lumen. Use mucosa/submucosa for tensile strength
Cervical esophagotomy with 1° Repair:
Post-op complications common d/t…
Lack of serosal layer
Cervical esophagotomy with 1° Repair:
Ventral aproach to do what two things:
1
2
- Blunt dissection of left side of trachea to ID esophagus
2. Retract trachea to the right.
Cervical esophagotomy with 1° Repair:
Ventrolateral approach is used for……
feeding tube placement
Cervical esophagotomy with 1° Repair:
Incision site?
ventral to jugular v
Cervical esophagotomy with 1° Repair:
Seperate what two muscles at incision site?
Sternocephalicus and brachiocephalicus
Cervical esophagotomy with 1° Repair:
Where do you incise esophagus?
over or caudal to FB