Physical Exams Flashcards
Normal Temperture for a Canine? Feline?
Where can you take the temperature if you cannot access the rectum?
Dog: 100.4-102.2° F
Cat: 101.3-102.2° F
Both can be up to 104° F with excitement
You can use the axilla (armpit if you will) and add 2.7° F
Normal Pulse of a dog? cat?
How do you count it?
Dog: 60-120 bpm
Cat 120-180 bpm (up to 220 with stress)
Count for 15 sec and multiply by 4
Normal Respiratory Rate of a dog? cat?
How do you count?
Dog: 10-30 bpm
Cat: 20-40 bpm
Count 30 seconds and multiply by 2
Which lymph nodes do you palpate in the dog?
- Mandibular
- Superficial cervical (prescapular)
- Popliteal
Normal Temperature of a horse?
99-101° F
Normal Pulse of a horse?
How do you count?
24-45 bpm
use the arteries in the head and count for 15 seconds then pultiply by 4
you should also auscultate the heart at the same time to assess for pulse variations/deficits. Pulses should be strong (easy to palpate), regular, and unvarying in strength
What other arteries should you palpate?
Normal Respiratorry Rate of a horse?
How do you count?
8-20 bpm
count for 30 seconds and multiply by 2 (they breathe slow so 15 seconds would give an inaccurate count)
Know it!
!!!!!
Where is the cecum located in the horse?
How long should you listen and what are you listening for?
Cecum in in the Right Dorsal quadrant.
Should hear 2-3 contractions (wave like sounds) every 1-2 minutes.
Ideally listen to all 4 quadrants for 2 minutes each
RD: Cecum LD: Small** Intestines & Small** Colon
RV: Large colon LV: Large colon
What lymph nodes do we palpate in the horse?
- The Submandibular lymph nodes
- Determine symmetry, size (<2.5 x2.5 cm), shape (circular to mildly ovoid), texture/consistecy
ex: 2 cm x 3 cm, oval, multilobulated, compressible, moveable, non-painful structure located axillar to the medial surface of the mid-left mandible.
Normal temperature for a sheep (ovine)?
102-104º F
What is the normal pulse of a sheep?
What about heart rate? How many sounds are usually heard?
Pulse: 70-90 bpm, taken from femoral artery
HR: 60-80 bpm and you hear S1 & S2 sounds normally
(I dont know the difference in these two values, but they were both listed as such in the ovine review, so dont shoot the messenger)
How many ruminations should you hear in a sheep? Where should you be listening and for how long?
You should hear ~2 rumminations/min
Listen on the left abdomen (aka the rumen, derp de derp) for about 2 minutes
Which lymph nodes do we palpate in our Barbados Black Bellies (and all sheep for that matter)?
- Submandibular
- Pre-scapular (superficial cervical)
- Pre-femoral
If enlarged, we worry about Cornybacterium pseudotuberculosis!
Know your sheep BCS
How old would you guess a sheep is if it has a few broken incisors?
~7-8 years
Can you flip a sheep?
You better be able to! Grab them by the head, under the jaw with one arm and use the other to pull hind limb closes to you forward and out from under them.
How do you do a halter tie?
Like that
Which senses should you use for every physical exam for every patien?
Sight, Touch, Hearing and Smell
I don’t recommend taste, but that’s your perogative.
How do you find the mitral valve in any animal?
Feel for the apical beat on the left side of the thoarx. (You have to really dig up under the horses axilla to find it)
When I say Cardiac Auscultation, you say MAP!
For the heart, what do we auscult on the right thorax? And where?
First we listen over the sternum on our way over from the left side.
BUT we listen to the Tricuspid valve on the right between the 4th and 5th rib spaces.
We also listen up into the axilla on this side.
What is happening durring a S1 sound? (Lub)
Systole! AV valves close and blood squirts out into the arteries
Heard best at the site of the apical beat
What is happenin durring a S2 sound? (Dub)
Dub for Diastloe! Aortic and Pulmonic Valves close, ventricles fill.
Heard best over the Aortic and Pulmonic valves .. go figure