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Equine urogenital surgery and castration Flashcards

1
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Pros and cons of standing castration

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Quicker and don’t have risks of general anaesthetic

But can only do an open castration

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When might we choose to do a castration under GA

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Mature stallions over 4 years due to increased risk of haemorrhage/herniation

History of inguinal hernia as foal

Cryptorchid
If very fractious
Donkeys

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How do we castrate a foal with a hernia

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closed castration and twist tunic to milk any intestines back into abdo cavity  then ligate as low as possible

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Pre-op preparation and analgesia for a standing castrate

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Detomidine, butorphanol
Buprenorphine
Tetanus prophylaxis if needed
Antibiotics if very dirty
Prep surgical site including inner thighs

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Where do we inject local anaesthetic for standing castrate and how much

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5-10 mls total in the testss
Line of LA in the skin, a couple cm lateral to the midline raphe

[end up with 10-15ml per side]

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Where to make incision for standing castrate

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1-2 cm lateral to the midline raphe (thin dark line)
Need to keep it quite ventral to ensure good drainage and avoid seroma formation

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How to place an emasculator

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Nut to nut
Want wing close to testicle; this allows it to crush then cut the cord

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When should we place ligatures in castration

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Only if dealing with haemorrhage because this will predispoe to infection (and this is a contaminated procedure)

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How much haemorrhage do we expect after a standing castrate

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Dripping for 30-60 mins (such that we can count the drops i.e not a steady stream)

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What are some causes of excessive haemorrhage in a standing castrate

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Placing emasculator the wrong way round
Using the wrong size emasculator
NOt holding emasculator on long enough

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How to deal with a bleeder in a standing castrate

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Re-sedate the horse
Try and find the stump of the cord using artery forceps
Place forceps on transversely, leave for 24hrs and re-sedate to remove
(or use ligature if you can’t come back to the yard to remove forceps)

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What to do with a bleeder from standing castrate if we can’t find the cord

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Pack scrotal wound with long sterile bandage
IF this isn’t enough then go a quick GA, find the cord and then clamp/ligate

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What are some advantages of castration under GA

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CAn do a closed castration which minimises risk of evisceration, haemorrhage and better asepsis

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How to perform a close castration under GA

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Incise scrotum, pull out testis, strip off the tissue from the tunic
Place two transfixing ligatures around the cord using thick metric vicryl
Emasculate distal to the ligatures, nut to nut
Probably don’t worry about closing the skin

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Post-op care after castrate

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NSAIDs for a few days
Antibiotics if very dirty or break in sterility
Box rest for 24 hours and check regularly for haemorrhage
THEN do forced walking out to reduce the oedema

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How long can stallions be fertile for after castration

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1-2 months

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What would we see with a surgical site infection post-castrate

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Excessive oedema, purulent discharge, lameness/stiff gait, pyrexia

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What are some predisposing factors for surgical site infection with castration

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contamination during surgery
using ligatures in non-sterile procedure
dirty environment
too small scrotal incisions since gives poor drainage and too rapid closure to haematoma retained
Too lateral incisions as get poor drainage

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Treatment for surgical site infection post-castrate

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Sedate, re-establish drainage by opening the incision, clean out clots/pus, lavage using physiological saline or dilute iodine
Systemic antibiotics

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What is funiculitis and how do we treat

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Infection of the cord stump
Get unresolving acute infection so thickened cord stump
Rare and generally related to sutures being left in

Dissect out bluntly and transect on a clear piece of spermatic cord; avoid ligature placement

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What is schirrous cord

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Chronic funiculitis with granulomas on scortum and small drainage tracts
Again, related to non-absorbable suture material

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What would a lace-like protrusion from a castration wound be

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Omentum prolapse

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Why are we not likely to get evisceration where there has been omental prolapse

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Because the omenum plugs the inguinal canal

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Treatment for dartos prolapse post-castration

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Sedate, clean, inject LA, clamp and trim

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Treatment for omentum prolapse post-castration

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Sedate, pull out a bit more healthy omentum and resect using emasculators while stnading or under GA

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Which individuals might be more likely to get evisceration post-castration

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Draft breeds
Mature stallion

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How to deal with large evisceration post-castrate in short term

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Sedate horse, place damp nappy to support guts while referring to nearest emergency centre

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What is a hydrocoele post-castration and when might we get it

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= filling up of the scrotal sac with peritoneal fluid
= Generally after an open castrate where excess vaginal tunic has bene left in place

= non-painful and can be manually reduced bu may open and resect out tunic to solve cosmetic issue

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Why might we still get stallion like behaviour post-castrate

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Because this behaviour is learned not just hormonal
More common to get this in older stallions

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30
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Which breed is prone to cryptorchidism

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Welsh ponies

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How to tell if a ‘castrated horse’ has a retained testicle

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Anti-mullerian hormone bblood test is most accurate marker of testicular tissue

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32
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Options other than anti-mullerian hormone for telling if a castrated horse has a retained testicle

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Testosterone concentration pre and post-HCG stimulation
Oestrogen sulphate assay (if>3y/o)

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Which retained testicle location may resolve at puberty when the testicle enlarges

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Inguinal canal (NOT abdo cavity because the vaginal ring will have closed already)

34
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In castration of a rig which testicle do we removed first

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Always the retained one

35
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Which area of the penis cannot we not do local excision on and why

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Glans
Because it bleeds too much

36
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Which lesions might we do local excision for on the penis

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Non-invasive lesions on the skin e.g penile melanoma, some sarcoids

37
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What is a reefing procedure and when might we do it

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Removing a ring oc skin around the penis and sewing edges together
Used when there are multiple superficial tumours or certain injuries

38
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When might we do a phallectomy

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To remove an invasive tumour e.g squamous cell carcinoma

39
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What is an en-bloc penile resection

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Removing the penis, sheath and local lymph nodes
Done for tumours which have invaded prox sheath/tunica or spread to LNs already

Either remove most of penis and leave hole ventrally or do perineal urethrostomy to pull penis through here

Expensive and very invasive

40
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What is the most common penile tumour and which individuals are esp prone

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Squamous cell carcinoma
Esp in old geldings

41
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How could we treat pre-cancerous SCC plaques on the penis

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With topical 5-FU cream
Or could do reefing operation

42
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What is the recurrence rate like with SCC removal from the penis

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Quite low; only 15% after 2 years
(worse prognosis if invasion of tunica, lymphatics or unclear margins)

43
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Should we remove penile melanomas on grey horses

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No probably don’t bother
More will just come up

44
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How could we remove sarcoids on the penis

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Laser, local excision, local treatments

45
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What must we remember to do if we find sarcoids

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Check for more lesions in other sites

46
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What are some potential sequelae of penile trauma

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Paraphimosis
Loss of function
Strictures/adhesions

47
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Treating penile trauma

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Massage from distal to proximal to push swelling back/use vet wrap for this
Put emolients on
Support penis using bandage strapped to body wanll to prevent dependent oedema
NSAIDs
Forced walking out

48
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What is the perineal body in females

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fibromuscular area that separates vestibule/vagina from rectum/anus

49
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Causes of pneumovagina

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  • Tearing of stretching of labial seal or vulvovaginal sphincter
  • Poor conformation: sunken perineal body; cranial displacement of anus, cranial inclination of vulva over brim of pelvis
    = common in underweight, old, multiparous mares
50
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Which animals is it more common to see pneumovagina in

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Underweight, old, multiparous mares

51
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How to do a caslick’s vulvoplasty

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Sedate and restrain
Clear perinum and inject LA in two lines along labial margins
Use mezembaum scissors to incise very thing strip of muco-cutaneous junctions and appose using simple interrupted or continuous suture (non-absorbable)
Remove at 2 weeks
Leave bottom part of cleft open to allow urination and copulation

52
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What is a breeding stitch

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Heavier suture placed at the bottom of a caslick’s which can help protect the repair during natural survice my allows some more stretching

53
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When might we go for a vestibuloplasty rather than caslick’s vulvuloplasty

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in where there is damage to perineal body so caslick’s not enough to correct pneumovagina

54
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How to do a vestibuloplasty

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Sedate and epiturate
Disect the mucosa and submucosa from dorsal aspect of vesticle
Then appose two sites of perineal body musculature which had been torn apart using absorbably sutures in horizontal mattress pattern
Then do Caslick;s

55
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What is a perineal body trasection/pouret

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Old fasioned procedure to incise between anus and vulva to free the vulva from rectal attachmetns

56
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When do we get urine pooling/urovagina in mares

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Where the external urethral orifice is dorsal to the vaginal fornix due to cranioventral deviation of the vagina
Generally in old pluriparous mares because they have poor muscular tone of the vagina and elongated broad ligaments

57
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What are the treatments like for urovagina

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All prone to failure

58
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Which individuals is perineal injury during parturition more common in and why

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Primiparous mares because the annular fold (hymen remnant) is more prominent

59
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What are the degrees of perineal tear

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Grade 1 = only skin and MMs of dorsal aspect of vestibule affected
Grade 2 = disruption of perineal body (constritor culcae muscle)

Grade 3 = complete disruption of tissue between rectum and vestibule

60
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Lacteration vs fistula 3rd degree perineal tear and what do we see with both

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Laceration = complete disruption of perineal body
Fistula = where there is a perforation of vestibule/rectum but some of perineal body remains intact; generally because the malposture was corrected before delivery

See faecal contamination of the vaginaH

61
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How to repair first degree perineal injurt

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Just do a Caslick’s

62
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How to deal with second degree perineal injurt

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Vestibuloplasty to reconstruct perineal body

63
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How to deal with 3rd degree perineal injury

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Need to create new shelf of tissue to separate rectum from vagina
If fistula, freshen up edges and repair in multiple layer closure

Need stool softened to prevent post-op straining

64
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How long to wait to breed after 3rd degree perineal tear repair; what about for AI

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2 months for natural service
2 weeks fo AI

65
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What neoplasias are common on vulva/clitoris and how do we treat

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SCC or melanoma

Use local excision +/- adjunctive chemo

66
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What direction are most cervical lacerations

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Longitudinal

67
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Why do we get cervical laceration

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During parturition where the cervix is insufficiently dilated

68
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How do we diagnose a cervical laceration

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Palpate per vagina during dioestrus; should not be able to get 1 finger into lumen of the cervix

69
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How are cervical lacerations repairs

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Standing with epidural; use long forceps to pull cervix as far caudally as possible

70
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Treatment of uterine cysts

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Rupture, then laser the base

71
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How do we diagnose uterine torsion

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Rectal exam feel very taut broad ligament

72
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Prognosis for uterine torsion after surgery

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for mare 80-90%
Fetus is 50-80%

73
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Indications for ovariectomy

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Granulosa cell tumours
Severe behavioural problems associated with oestrus

74
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What is the most common ovarian tumour

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Granulosa cell tumour

75
Q

What do we try before doing a caesarian section

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Controlled vaginal delivery
But if don’t get good progress within 15-20 mins then should switch to C secion

76
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How to try controlled delivery attempted

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Mare knocked out, hoist up hind limbs to allow vet to push foal back into abdomen using gravity, rearrange and place ropes
Then lower into lateral and deliver

77
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What is the risk with too long controlled vaginal delivery intervention

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Cervical adhesions

78
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After starting a c section, we want a live foal within how long?

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20 mins

79
Q

Which horses are more liekly to get urolithiasis (still rare)

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GEldings

80
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What neoplasia might we see in the urethra

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SCC

81
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Equine (18 decks)

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