SURGERY OF THE HEAD AND THORAX

Question 1

Disbudding & Dehorning technique for <1 week old

Answer 1

Caustic compounds

Question 2

Disbudding & Dehorning technique for 1-2 weeks old

Answer 2

Disbudding iron

Question 3

Disbudding & Dehorning technique for 1-4 months

Answer 3

Barnes dehorner, Roberts dehorning trephine with disbudding iron

Question 4

Disbudding & Dehorning technique for 5 months and older animals

Answer 4

Embryo wire, dehorning saw

Question 5

analgesia or nerve block technique used in Disbudding & Dehorning

Answer 5

Cornual nerve block & Ring block

Question 6

Cornual nerve block is also termed as

Answer 6

zygomaticotemporal nerve block

Question 7

technique that Must be discourage (Has little or too much tissue damage)

Answer 7

Caustic compounds

Question 8

2 Caustic compounds

Answer 8

NaOH, KOH

Question 9

considered the best disbudding or dehorning method

Answer 9

Disbudding iron

Question 10

why is the use of disbudding iron recommended?

Answer 10

haemorrhage does not occur and healing takes place within a few weeks leaving little or no scar.

Question 11

position during dehorning

Answer 11

standing

Question 12

analgesia used during dehorning

Answer 12

local analgesia

Question 13

type of restraint used during dehorning

Answer 13

physical & chemical restraint

Question 14

If regeneration of horn is to be avoided (during dehorning) the amputation should include

Answer 14

1 cm of skin around the base of the horn

Question 15

complication of dehorning which is RARE in cattle

Answer 15

sinusitis

Question 16

The sawing during dehorning often generates sufficient ____ to minimize haemorrhage

Answer 16

heat