Lecture 21 - Failure to become detectably pregnant I

Question 1

T/F: Comprehensive BSE will destroy a pregnancy.

Answer 1

True - so it is improtant to make sure the female is pregnant before BSE

Question 2

When examining the female, when examine healthy, what do we mean by that?

Answer 2

We look at condition, season, lactation, and systemic disease.

Place an emphasis on sight, mastication, and locomotion.

This is nto your typicall vet physical exam - not as detailed.

Question 3

What is the windsucker test?

Answer 3

The windsucker test invovles spreading the vulva of the mare. You should not see much further than 4-5 inches until a barrier is apparent. This barrier is the vestibulovaginal sphincter. If we see an endless dark tunnel, then we know she has a compromised vestibulovaginal sphincter that no longer creates efficient barrier b/w vestibule and vagina, making this functionally one space instead of two.

Question 4

When doing an U/S, the first question of the exam is what?

Answer 4

Is she pregnant?!

Question 5

In most animals, except the mare, fluid in the uterus is very unusual unless the animal is currently in ____.

Answer 5

Estrus

Question 6

When should we do an endometrial cytology?

Answer 6

If the U/S showed infalmmatory exudate (echoic fluid).

Question 7

When is it appropriate to do a speculum examination of hte vagina?

Answer 7

AFTER we have sampled/cultured whatever we needed from cytology, and performed U/S.

Question 8

Breeding is a ____ fertility test.

Answer 8

direct