Final: French Flashcards
What are your differentials for a cow presenting with hypersalivation, coughing/retching, extended head and neck, and a protruding tongue?
Esophageal choke
Pharyneal trauma
Rabies
What lung fields are typically affected by aspiration pneumonia?
Cranioventral
What size trochar would you use to decompress a rumen?
8 - 10 G
What tissue layer is absent in the esophagus?
Serosa
So it lacks a holding layer
What procedure can you do to immediately relieve chronic bloat (type I vagal indigestion) as well as bypass the esophagus for feeding post-esophagostomy?
Temporary rumen fistula
What surgery is indicated for reticular abscesses and type II vagal indigestion?
Rumenotomy
What pattern is used to suture the rumen to the skin in a rumenotomy?
Cushing
What diagnostic would reveal whether a rumenotomy is indicated?
Rumen chloride
Super high -> sx indicated
What do tachycardia, muffled heart sounds, and a washing machine murmur indicate?
Traumatic reticulopecarditis
What antibiotic is used to treat traumatic pericarditis in cattle?
Oxytetracyline
What antibiotic is used to treat Trueperella pyogenes in cattle?
Procaine Penicillin G
What plants can cause cleft palate in cattle?
Poison hemlock
Nicotiana spp.
With which other diseases are assocated with cleft palate?
Orthopedic diseases
What shape of incision do you make when removing a portion of damaged tongue?
Triangular
How do you prevent intersucking?
Nose ring
Pierced better than pinch-on
How do you repair nose ring dehiscence?
Sx prep, suture pattern, suture removal
Debride area
Bilateral blocks at infraorbital foramina
Figure-8 suture pattern
Preplaced mattress sutures
Remove sutures in 10-14 days
What is the causative agent of Lumpy Jaw?
- Actinomyces bovis*
- Gram + filamentous, sulphur granules*
Which nerves innervate the horns? Which vessels must you be aware of when dehorning?
Cornual and Branch of the zygmaticotemporal nerve
Cornual artery, branch of the superficial temporal atery (which branches dorsal and ventral at the horn)