Ruminants 6 Flashcards
What options with fracture?
- External coaptation -> casting.splinting
- Internal fixation -> expensive , high failure rate
Who doesn’t respond well to external coaptation?
goats
Applying cast ?
Re-alignment
Padding to prevent sores
Conforming dressing
Casting
Include wire to remove*
Cast joints either side of the fracture
Fracture management depends on ?
Indication for Digital amp?
- Deep digital sepsis
- Toe necrosis
- Trauma
Detail Deep Digital Sepsis?
Detail digital amp ?
Anaesthesia analgesia, ABs & restraint for digital amp?
Steps to digital amputation?
Post-op care digital amp?
- Change bandages every 48 hours
- Complete healthy granulation tissue has
formed - Antibiotic therapy for minimum 5 days
- Repeat NSAIDs as required
- Keep inside to careful monitoring
- Clean environment
Complications for digital amputation?
- Haemorrhage
- Infection
- Ischaemia and sloughing
- Prognosis guarded
- Case selection AND
- Post-operative care
Indications for supernumerary teat removal?
- Obstruction at milking
- Greater risk of liner slip
- Cosmetic
When is supernumerary teats removed?
- Performed in young calves, at disbudding?
- After 2 months old local anaesthetic required
Teat removal under what acts?
- (Protection of Animals (Anaesthetics) Act 1954,
as amended) - Must be performed by vet
- (Veterinary Surgeons Act 1966, as amended)
Teat lacerations?
common - standing on it
Pre-op consideration with teat lacerations?
- Full v’s partial thickness
- Consider amputation
- Age of wound
- Canal patency?
- Interruption to blood supply
- Vertical V’s horizontal laceration
Medical / conservative tx for teat lacerations?
- Teat cannular & break from milking
- Second intention healing
- Antibiotic
Surgical repair for teat lacerations?
- Debride necrotic tissue
- Three layer closure for full thickness
laceration - NSAID/Antibiotic
how to surgically repair teat lacerations?
Ring block local anaesthetic
Leg of affected side lifted in a crush for access
Passive drainage using teat cannula for 2 days after surgery
Indication for teat amp?
- Teat injury
- Chronic mastitis
*Allows drainage - Three quarters
Approach for teat amputation?
*Ring block
*Cow leg raised in crush
* Torniquet required for haemostasis
Complications/aftercare for teat amp?
*Haemorrhage
* Infection
*Antibiotics
*Flushing depending on cause
Describe entropion?
- In-turned eyelid
- Hereditary problems in sheep (carried by the
Ram) - Secondary corneal ulceration
Tx of entropion depends on?
Severity ->
- Roll eyelid
- Injection into eyelid
- Surgical excision of strip of skin
