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Intro and Autonomous Flashcards

1
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What are potential treatment options for all presenting cases?

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  • Do nothing
  • Give drugs
  • Surgery
  • Change diet
  • Euthanasia
  • Most involve drugs
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If many animals are affected by the same bacterial problem, what is the best way to dispense their antibiotics?

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  • Put it in their water trough and make sure all of the animals drink
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Describe Greasy Pig Disease…

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  • Caused by a bacteria Staph. hyicus that normally lives on the skin
  • Sometimes it flares up and causes dermatitis where the pigs produce extra sebum from their hair follicles
  • Toxins are produced which are absorbed into the system and damage kidneys and liver
  • Piglets infected during birth from sow’s vagina
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What do you need to know about any clinical case?

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  • History
  • Clinical Exam Findings
  • DDx
  • Lab Tests
  • Diagnosis
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What do you as a vet need to know when treating cases with drugs?

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  • Treatment Objectives
  • Drugs likely to be active
  • Side effects & Interactions
  • Monitoring required?
  • Pharmacokinetics
  • Dose
  • Cost
  • Do the benefits outweigh the risks
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What is the only drug given in a panic situation?

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Adrenaline (epinephrine)

  • dose rate of 20ug/ kg
  • repeat every 5 minutes
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What problems do cats have with phenols?

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They can have problems metabolising them

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What is a BAN?

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British approved name for a drug

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What is a USAN?

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United States Adopted Name for a drug

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What are pINN and rINN?

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Provisional and Recommended International Nonproprietary Names approved by the WHO

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What do we as vets need to know about penicillin antibiotics?

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Narrow and broad spectrum penicillins
- broad unnecessary if you know what the bacteria causing the problem is - don’t want to cause gut problems with other bacteria

  • Procaine penicillin is used quite often
  • penicillin is a safe drug safe to double results to ensure results
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Where do you IM inject in pigs?

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Proximal 1/3 of the neck

- Meat animal

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Is SC better than IM?

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Yes, but if the animal is sick there will be poor circulation to the skin

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What must be considered in terms of blood supply under anaesthesia?

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Poor blood supply to all organs for the length of the surgery
- the lungs get almost all of the C.O

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What are positive ionotropes?

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Drugs that increase the strength of cardiac muscle contraction by increasing amount of intracellular Ca2+ available for binding muscle proteins

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What is a sympathomimetic drug?

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Mimics effect of sympathetic activation of the heart and circulation

  • Stimulates Beta receptors
  • Causes vasoconstriction and vascular smooth muscle contraction through alpha receptors

Used where blood pressure needs to be raised by stimulating heart and causing vasoconstriction

17
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What are Cardiac Glycoside drugs?

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Drugs used to treat heart failure (oedema caused by a weakened heart) and some arrythmias
- Found in leaf of digitalis plant

18
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What is a phosphodiesterase inhibitor (PDI) drug?

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Drugs used to treat heart failure

19
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What are 6 examples of sympathomimetics drugs?

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  1. Adrenaline
  2. Noradrenaline
  3. Dopamine
  4. Isoprenaline
  5. Dobutamine
  6. Dopexamine
20
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What is SVR?

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Systemic Vascular Resistance

- resistance to blood flow by all of the systemic vasculature

21
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What is the half life of adrenaline?

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2 minutes

- must keep giving it

22
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What does an ECG show if there is an adrenaline overdose?

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Bigger QRS or T wave

23
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What are abnormal and normal heart rates for horses under analgesia?

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Normal: 25-30 bpm
Abnormal: > 50 bpm (tachycardia)

24
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What are some side effects of positive inotropes under analgesia?

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  • Tachycardia
  • Hypertension
  • Arrhythmias
  • Tolerance
25
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How must adrenaline be administered?q

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IV

- usually given as an infusion bag

26
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What is the best way to monitor the effects the surgery is having on an animal under anaesthetics?

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Blood Pressure changes

27
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What is Anaphylaxis?

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A severe, whole body allergic reaction to a chemical ( often a drug) that has become an allergen
- immune system sensitised after first exposure

Tissues in different parts of the body release histamine which causes: - Airways to Constrict 
- Vasodilatation.
- Decreased CO2 and Permeability of blood vessels
- Oedema
- Tremours
- Collapse
- Increased perfusion 
= 0 Blood Pressure
28
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How do you treat anaphylaxis?

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GIve adrenaline SC or IM
Monitor effects
Only give IV as last resort

29
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What are the dose rates for adrenaline?

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SC: 20ug/kg
IV: 5-20ug/kg
Intratracheally: 20-40ug/kg
Intracardiac (last resort): 2ug/kg

30
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Where is adrenaline secreted from?

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The adrenal glands

31
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What is haemostasis?

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Process which causes bleeding to stop - by blood clotting

32
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Describe the effects that calcium has on the body?

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  • Some inotropic effect
  • Vasoconstriction
  • Increases C.O
  • Reduces blood flow ro myocardium and brain
  • Don’t use as inotrope
33
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What do pain and anaesthesia do to the nervous system?

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They depress the whole thing

34
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What do endotoxins produced by bacteria do to the cardiovascular system?

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  • Decrease cardiac output and blood pressure

- Cause vasodilation

35
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What is the main objective with an animal with acute heart failure?

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Get oxygenated blood to the myocardium and brain

36
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What is the sequence of events that should be in place for treating a patient with acute heart failure?

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  1. Don’t excite the animal
  2. Give Oxygen
  3. Place large bore IV catheter
  4. Give frusemide IV (1-2 mg/kg/hr
  5. Attach ECG
  6. Make diagnosis by xrays and ultrasounds etc
  7. GIve Drugs
    - vasodilators
    - inotropes
    - antiarrthythmics
    - fluids
37
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What is atropine used for?

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Increasing Heart Rate

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